Mrs. Richard's mother was that Julia Ward Howe whose imperishable monument is "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," and whom one glimpses briefly "Stepping Westward".
The new drill rigs, they say, are much farther away than the ones Mr. Smithson knew, and that can be glimpsed briefly in his movie.
We are glimpsing briefly what is gone forever – what we ourselves have destroyed – and witnessing it with that knowledge is truly heartbreaking.
I entered Central Park on a lovely Saturday morning a couple of weeks ago with my camera and the goal of taking a picture of the tufted titmice I had glimpsed briefly on an earlier visit.
The softly spoken wildlife filmmaker and presenter is one of my favourites, with rather moving, personal films such as this one, but sadly this series so far he has only been glimpsed briefly in the background.
It seems no coincidence that Penn's mother, glimpsed briefly at home, is in a sky-blue dress and a white apron, as if this symbolic setting were indeed part of the clouds.
Other actors would have milked the dramatic opportunities here for all they were worth, but Nixon and Abbott – the latter glimpsed briefly in A Most Violent Year – keep their sights on the heartbreaking inevitability of the situation.
The Wuorinen String Sextet has a surprisingly Romantic soul as well, glimpsed briefly in a purely Schubertian opening gesture, then left to emerge almost subliminally as this dense, harmonically acidic score unfolds.
Many of the show's details ring true to those who lived through the Reagan era — particularly the episode in which the president is shot and Alexander M. Haig Jr., then secretary of state, is glimpsed briefly on a TV screen, asserting, "I am in control here".
Cricket in this country is not the marginal, upper crust, drink-Pimms-and-forget concern it is in England, a giggly indulgence that is glimpsed briefly for a few months in the summer before disappearing under the commercial thug-march of the football season.
The commandos have been glimpsed briefly, traveling the dirt roads in large four-wheel-drive vehicles, mostly with blacked-out windows, ducking their faces or wrapping them in the blanket-like shawls that Afghan men drape around their shoulders and heads here.
