Although his dig is less pointed than Updike's, Murakami will have known the effect that even such a glancing nod to the Swedish Academy will have had on his readership: in Japan, fans have taken to gathering in cafes with champagne on ice on the day that the news comes from Stockholm.
Without the right actor it could be disastrous, but Stahl brings a level of thoughtful emotion to the character such that a glance or a stare speaks volumes".
We would agree that such, at a glance, random behaviours of data points may partially be explained by a high rate of false positives.
I got such a fleeting glance as we sped past that I wondered if I had imagined it.
As I watched those four lives turned upside down – their houses bombed, their children starved, and their mothers killed by the advancing Nigerian army– I began to wonder if my country was ready for such a piercing glance into its past.
Professor and feminist Iris Marion Young wrote that in U.S. culture breasts are subject to "Capitalist, patriarchal American media-dominated culture [that] objectives breasts before such a distancing glance that freezes and masters".
Now one might think that a king, especially of the whole world, would rise, magnanimously and majestically, above such a fray, glancing down, perhaps, with benign amusement.
And although Krauss uses the historical dislocation of the Holocaust as the reason for Gursky's broken life, the fact that the outcome is so elegant and the emotions are always described in such a stylish, glancing way means that we never get the sense that we are coming up against any real horror or despair.
We ask the public to wait and see; it cannot be expected that every soul in the city can be convinced and understand such matters at a glance.
HCV allows one to judge such questions at a glance because, by spreading the vector out in a two-dimensional square, it provides enough detail to be able to distinguish individual peaks but still allows for an overview of the whole data.
