The park soothed her not only because of the glimpses of life it offered -- the swallows nesting, the egrets foraging to feed their young -- but also because of the contrast it offered between what it was and what it has become.
These people hang on because of the glimpses they get of the good side and hold out the hope that if they were only "good enough" or "better", or unconditionally accepted and loved this person then they could get the nice and kind person back.
And Lester as the deceitful Nick Johnson doesn't put in too shabby a showing either, playing a significant part in positioning Undercover as a worthy contender for one of 2016's most gripping dramas (so far)—and not just because of the cheeky glimpse of his arse in an early episode.
Because of this glimpse of liberalisation, the young generation of dissident writers began to provide a different kind of cold-war response to the earlier pulp-fiction one.
The conservatives defending Mr. Cheney are largely the same crowd that went off the deep end because of a glimpse of breast on the Super Bowl, demanding everything from fines to new regulations to protect red states from blue language.
That's a shame, because the glimpses of the "real" Kearns – the blurring of the line between act and performer – give the show an intriguing charge.
But most people who have glimpsed the brutal clip weren't drawn in because of the man who died.
It is because the first glimpse I ever had of history, before I knew what history was, showed me this flamboyant procession of good kings or bad kings (or rather, of bad kings and less bad kings, for Dickens is no monarchist, and from Alfred the Great to William of Orange is a parade of gangsters and buffoons, with a very bloody Mary and a very tiresome Elizabeth).
So did I become codependent because of glimpses of addiction in my own home, or in spite of it?
(A word to the acrophobic: Don't look down at your feet, because the spacing of the bamboo allows glimpses of the roof's floor below).
