Sentence examples for a glancing mention from inspiring English sources

There's a glancing mention in Jane Eyre.

President Bush made only a glancing mention of Vietnam's human rights record.

Typically, they gave prominence to the lowest rental prices and touted their pet-friendliness, with only a glancing mention, if any, of additional charges.

He might have said much more about politics, beyond a glancing mention that one Hollywood actor parlayed celebrity into the presidency of the United States.

Unlike Obama's first four years, when even a glancing mention of climate was seen as an achievement, environmental groups pushed the president for specifics.

The US markets have all but closed when the present 9pm bulletin ends, and virtually never merit more than a glancing mention.

Particularly notable among his books was "Music in a New Found Land: Themes and Developments in the History of American Music" (1964), an absorbing overview that traced American composition from Colonial times through jazz (with glancing mention of rock), published at a time when European musicologists paid scant attention to music in the United States.

Mills received only glancing mention in Seymour's citation.

The first glancing mention is in paragraph 7. The first substantive mention is in paragraph 15.

The city is sunk into recession's mire, unemployment tops 10percentt — black male unemployment edges toward 50percentt — and foreclosure threatens working class families, and the candidates made glancing mentions of all of this.

"We have a glancing attention to Constellation, even mentioning it in past tense," she said.