A man doesn't have to accidentally glance against one of these cables for it to kill him.
It began with Steinberg's arrangements of two madrigals by Gesualdo, the Prince of Venosa, who, like Liszt, explored strange new regions in his final years: ordinary chords glance against one another with little regard for conventional logic, creating fractured, kaleidoscopic patterns.
He said two trains had glanced against one another as they passed.
Two bullets shattered the windscreen; Claros was struck squarely on the left shoulder by the first, while the second glanced against his head.
Z. was at the other, I saw with relief, I wasn't too late, and I stepped up beside him, breaking that distributive propriety of men's bathrooms, a guard against unchecked glances, against desire.
Like Gaddis, De La Pava uses speech to giddying effect; not just as dialogue but in set-piece speeches and deranged polyphonies, with characters intercutting, talking over, and glancing against each other.
Really, though, the setting is a land -- or, as they say in trailers for movies like this one, "a world" -- somewhere between "The Thorn Birds" and "The King and I," where people stroll through gorgeous and exotic landscapes and exchange smoldering glances against a backdrop of historical turmoil.
At first glance, the Violence Against Women Act appeared an unlikely battleground for the Supreme Court's continuing federalism wars.
Rather, the joke is in exposing people's — maybe even our own (knowing glance) — prejudices against gays.
In seven weeks of court testimony, prosecutors landed only glancing blows against Kenneth L. Lay, a former chief executive of Enron who is on trial for criminal conspiracy and fraud.
Having ridden their luck during a shaky first 20 minutes, Adam Webster's glancing header against his former club put the home side in front.
