Sentence examples for direct glimpses from inspiring English sources

Alongside his features, many of which were staples of art cinema's golden age, the retrospective gives equal prominence to his shorts and documentaries, which often offer direct glimpses of his mind-set.

Deep-seated xenoliths in volcanic rocks offer direct glimpses into the nature and evolution of the lower continental crust.

For many Americans, the Iranian cinema is the most direct glimpse into this complicated culture.

IN a great many fields, researchers would give their eyeteeth to have a direct glimpse of the past.

If confirmed, the observations would be scientists' first direct glimpse of what amounts to a blueprint for the structure of the universe.

"Here we have the first direct glimpse of the geographic movements of early hominids, and it appears the females preferentially moved away from their residential groups," said lead author, Sandi Copeland at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.

Though brief, their descriptions of their beliefs and practices provide a rare direct glimpse into the religion of one portion of the sub-elite populace of ancient China.

The results provide the first direct glimpse of the gargantuan tangle of massive, invisible stuff that astronomers and astrophysicists believe makes up the vast majority of the universe.

That film, the Roman Coppola-directed, "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III," stars Sheen as a gainfully employed ladies' man who goes through fever dreams of past relationships as he tries to recover from a recent breakup and turn his life around.

With millions of people pouring their hearts into this modern-day confessional, we get a direct, if mysterious, glimpse into the heads of our fellow Web surfers.

They are, in my experience, more vivid, more direct, and more truthful glimpses into someone else's life.