"from a glance" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used as an adverbial phrase to indicate that something was perceived or understood quickly or without closer examination. Example: From a glance, I could tell that she was upset.
From a glance at the literary blogs, some titles are mentioned as potential contenders again and again.
But all that's hard to notice from a glance at Time magazine's selection of 'Person of the Year 2012'.
The problem with "Steve Jobs" isn't its departures from facts about Jobs's life that can be rapidly gleaned from a glance at Walter Isaacson's biography of him.
This lesson can be easily learned from a glance at the European Union, where countries increasingly cede sovereign authority to the bureaucrats in Brussels.
Baja is not moving due west, as one might guess from a glance at a map, but north by northwest, with the rest of the Pacific Plate.
I'm curious whether, when you looked out the window on the International Space Station, did you always know where you were from a glance?
For as soon as she was gone I worried that he had got an answer from her, a glance from her eye that encouraged him, a pout from those lips which he would probably call juicy, though toward me they were set and stern.
Aside from a glancing reference from Obama himself to his "economic plan," and a short discussion of a speech in Virginia, we get no sense of whether Obama's economic policies — particularly in contrast to John McCain's would actually make a real difference to the lives of ordinary Americans.
About his youthful fascination with the Sears catalog, Mr. Crews writes in that book: "Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a finger cut off, a toe split, an ear half-chewed away, an eye clouded with blindness from a glancing fence staple.
His first was the conclusion of a catalogue of errors from captain Steven Gerrard, who had a harrowing night, Glen Johnson and Phil Jagielka, while his second was a thunderous finish from a glancing header off his Liverpool captain.
Apart from a glancing congratulation to Sanders, Clinton spent her entire victory speech aimed at November and the prospect of a showdown with Trump.
