"clear glimpse of" is a perfectly valid phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to make reference to something that you can see clearly or to describe a situation in which you can observe something without obstruction. For example: "The glass window provided me with a clear glimpse of the beautiful garden beyond."
Understanding them, suddenly one catches a clear glimpse of Blunt.
The open kitchen at Bar Americain affords diners a clear glimpse of the chef (and television personality) Bobby Flay.
The earliest clear glimpse of Al Gore's mind is his Harvard undergraduate thesis, "The Impact of Television on the Conduct of the Presidency, 1947-1969".
In the aftermath of 9/11, we got a clear glimpse of what had gone wrong: a collapse of the city's traditional spirit of progressive civic conscience.
In his first league appearance after the biting ban, Suárez gave Liverpool fans a clear glimpse of the wonderful, goal-rich months that lay ahead.
Yet Athill also describes Rhys, at almost 90 years old, correcting from memory the proofs of her final collection of stories -- a "clear glimpse of the central mystery of Jean Rhys: the existence within a person so incompetent and so given to muddle and disaster -- even to destruction -- of an artist as strong as steel".
Joyce drew on other sources as well, and shaped his material with a novelist's free hand, yet clear glimpses of Svevo remain.
Dr. Pais's early recognition that all of the apparently different particles in nature might be arranged in a sort of periodic table, like chemical elements, is often cited as one of the first clear glimpses of the direction that elementary particle theory would eventually take in the second half of the 20th century.
Though some of the material is, to be sure, raw and unpolished, the following excerpts offer clear glimpses of the towering genius that Cornell Thompson was to become).... View Article Andy Borowitz is the New York Times best-selling author of "The 50 Funniest American Writers," and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998.
Former counternarcotics officials, who also would speak only on the condition of anonymity about clandestine operations, offered a clearer glimpse of their scale and how they worked.
In papers filed in federal court in San Francisco, the companies offered the clearest glimpse of their legal defense, contending that the F.T.C. had failed to follow its own guidelines and that the merger would "benefit competition worldwide and in the United States".
