But I like to think that those hard-fought glimpses of understanding between ourselves and our rhetorical opponents open up the possibility of progress.
As foreigners to another culture, we usually look to political events and cultural ephemera for glimpses of understanding, but have no idea what any of these things mean in their own context – how they're used and perceived.
The folklore of the cursed rocks, in this view, is a coping strategy, a way of understanding the glimpse of the Late Triassic that emerges just after the Howard Johnson on Route 66.
Instead of understanding, Wilde lampoons.
Puig showed signs of understanding.
Failure of understanding.
Warfighter presents us with a world it is respectful of and passionate about, a world we genuinely glimpse at understanding.
While some of the videos embedded into the site continue to reflect antiquated notions and misguided concepts -- even from some gay Mormons themselves -- among them are some that are deeply thoughtful and touching, showing glimpses of authentic understanding inside the Mormon community.
Beyond the truly empathetic and comforting nurse that took care of my wife and baby that evening, there was little to no glimpse of emotion or understanding in the process.
A glimpse of our lack of understanding of the breadth of T cell reactivity becomes apparent when analysing the MHC restriction of the epitopes identified to date.
When we grasp how words and concepts map our realities, and we see the recurring patterns across different scales of reality, we glimpse a visceral understanding of the infinite.
