Sentence examples for glance upon from inspiring English sources

On a summer morning, in the legendary Russia of my boyhood, my first glance upon awakening was for the chink between the shutters.

Surely only a jaundiced adult could glance upon the cantina at Mos Eisley or the shiny halls of the Death Star and see them as anything less than life-altering and dream-making.

Walt Whitman, extoller of the Brooklyn Bridge, described the Crystal Palace as "an original, esthetic, perfectly proportioned, American edifice". To walk down Park Avenue and glance upon glass towers like Lever House and the Seagram Building might not immediately suggest hothouses, but there is a connection.

"It's when somebody casts a spiritual glance upon you that can make it harder for you to attract the things that you want to attract".

Naive and almost idyllic at a glance, upon closer inspection the inlay reads like a macabre window into the future from the past, highlighting the sobering reality that not much has changed from one century to the next.

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Those sorts of things are only glanced upon in American history books, at best.

In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, Michael Cunningham returns to the land of fairy stories, glanced upon in his most recent novel, The Snow Queen.

A dozen composers, from Bach to Copland, were glanced upon, with connecting commentary by the pianist Andre Watts, who was also among the 37 musicians -- artist members of the society and guest players -- who combined and recombined as the scores required.

Telling a story about a boxing match he lost to an opponent so confident he brought along a suit to wear afterward, Tommy concludes, "It's all about your outlook". Grabbing happiness when you can in this chaotic "what's going on" world is another theme that McPherson, an acclaimed Irish playwright whose works sometimes involve ghosts and the devil, glances upon here.

Suleiman, separated from the struggle only by the linen hangings of the tent, peered through the chamber of his tent and "directed fierce and threatening glances upon the mutes, and by menacing gestures sternly rebuked their hesitation.