Sentence examples for frightening glimpse from inspiring English sources

Mr. Houser, whose kidney problems gave him a frightening glimpse of death, said he hoped the project would give him a kind of immortality.

Huck Finn itself is travel writing, in which the raft-trip down the Mississippi provides the picaresque structure for an episodic tale, an Edenic journey away from civilisation, as well as an occasionally frightening glimpse of the (all-too-human) wilderness.

Nothing in the children's entertainment of today, candy-colored animation hopped up on computer tricks, can prepare young or old for this frightening glimpse of simpler times.

South Australia's premier, Mike Rann, said yesterday: "What we're seeing with this drought is a frightening glimpse of the future with global warming".

The communications failure that accompanied the fall of the towers gave New York a frightening glimpse of a busted future -- Wall Street without telephones, a ghost town.

In addition, Peter Maass's article on Sunday in The Times Magazine on the video journalist Laura Poitras gave a frightening glimpse of the intimidation brought to bear on those involved in breaking the N.S.A. story.

Structured as a long night's journey into day, with truly frightening glimpses of a darkness that stretches into eternity, "The Seafarer" turns out to be a thinking-person's alternative to "It's a Wonderful Life" as a flagon of Christmas cheer.

Jo Carr, frightened by the glimpse of a face from her past, suspects a shadowy and violent priest.

The police soon turned their attention to calming their own people, but the shooting gave a glimpse into a frightening future".The present is our problem.

A few highlights: Sonia Faleiro's "Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars" is a "glimpse into a frightening subculture unlike anything that a typical American has ever experienced," Kirkus Reviews said recently, adding that the book is a well-deserved "international sensation".

Although the riots brought a terrifying glimpse of physical chaos, injustice is almost as frightening.