Intrepid explorers may even catch a brief glimpse of a mythical White Walker, in that brief instant before their face is pulled off like a bad magician's tablecloth.
During the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, you catch a brief glimpse of a woman sitting on some kind of flying tank.
As he walks back to the door, we catch a brief glimpse of his face; portly, bespectacled, more greengrocer than assassin.
One of Williams's virtues is that he trains people to listen thematically: even the littlest kids will catch a brief quotation of the Darth Vader march when his mask is displayed onscreen.
To travel on this side of the Atlantic with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell is to catch a brief glimpse of a parallel universe: the heedless, insular, bellicose, unilateralist America seen by many European eyes.
She promptly tracks the woman down in the local courthouse, where he catch a brief glimpse of Julie Delpy in the dock, prefiguring her subsequent role in Three Colours White.
The show ends with the curtain calls – choreographed by stage management – and the cameras catch a brief glimpse of Stephen Fry, who was in the audience but quickly came backstage to congratulate the cast.
The cloud, caught in an updraught, suddenly rose and I glanced behind to catch a brief glimpse of the mountains and valleys spread out below, a dizzying sense of space and height, and me clinging to this rock no wider than my shoulders.
The show follows a nameless pot dealer, simply called the Guy (played by Ben Sinclair, who created and writes the series with his wife, the former network casting director Katja Blichfeld), as he enters the private chambers of various New Yorkers' lives to sell weed and catch a brief glimpse of their humanity.
It was indeed a momentous event because for more than two centuries, only few Europeans had been able to catch a brief glimpse of the enigmatic archipelago and its legendary inhabitants.
At the end, we catch a brief snippet of what may be Blunt rapping imperceptibly beneath the static-y beat.
