Sentence examples for distant glimmer from inspiring English sources

This time Wellman allows for a distant glimmer of hope, in the form of a judge (Robert Barrat) who is carefully framed alongside a National Recovery Administration poster.

As the A's take the field for their home opener Friday against the Seattle Mariners, the team's overachieving glory days depicted in last year's "Moneyball" starring Brad Pitt as General Manager Billy Beane are a warm, if distant glimmer.

Were Mr. Crowe ever to play Rick in "Casablanca," instead of Humphrey Bogart's hard-boiled wounded romantic, he would probably give him the mournful shambling aura of a loyal St. Bernard with a distant glimmer of fire in his eyes.

But this is Las Vegas, so the effect is diffused somewhat by the distant glimmer of Judith Leiber handbags and, in the front of the hotel, a Ferrari/Maserati dealership in which $350,000 sports cars come wrapped in bows.

Back in 1987, before the PalmPilot was even a distant glimmer on the horizon, Kaplan, then a computer scientist working for Lotus Corp., foresaw a different type of computer.

Unfortunately, going to college, let alone graduating with a degree, is seen as a distant glimmer for many, particularly those growing up in low income neighborhoods or those who are first generation college-goers.

It seems that they see distant glimmers of hope here, despite being shy about retail in general.

Years later, after the facts of biology are distant glimmers, they may still be able to call upon the process, the logic, and the utility of science to make important life decisions.

Ms. Jensen stimulates perception by obscuring it behind or within veils of shadowy pigment through which distant light often glimmers like a promise of discovery.

Behind the almost surreal national division highlighted by the campaign, there glimmers a distant hope of resolution.

He is the poet of living minds and palpable thoughts, of inner dramas and outer beauty, of enigmatic figures in landscapes where the sun's dying rays glimmer gold above distant blue towns, all painted with extraordinary softness and mystery.