Sentence examples for a glancing relationship from inspiring English sources
It has barely a glancing relationship to aesthetics in any form.
But United Energy Systems of Ukraine was a crony operation with at best a glancing relationship to the liberal economy.
Ever since, official news has had only a glancing relationship to reality, while censorship has had a great impact on the nature and ambition of Burmese letters.
If you are close to your father but have only a glancing relationship with your mother, your mother's death may not be terribly disruptive; by the same token, a fraught relationship can lead to an acute grief reaction.
Their journeys bookend the 20th century, and Green uses that glancing relationship as a productive point of departure.
And now, in "Noah's Compass," there's Liam Pennywell, a 60-year-old former teacher who acts like an old geezer, and who realizes that despite two marriages and three daughters, he has "experienced only the most glancing relationship with his own life," that "he had dodged the tough issues, avoided the conflicts, gracefully skirted adventure".
Take a glancing interest.
Luckily it was a glancing blow".
He cannot absorb even a glancing blow.
He began teaching high school history and married a cheerful, self-reliant woman with whom he had two more daughters, and who divorced him when she could no longer stand his "glancing relationship with his own life".
