Sentence examples for glimpses like from inspiring English sources

Glimpses like these were enough to prompt one newspaper headline to hail him, at twelve, as "a basketball clone of his dad".

The family members repeatedly refer to Iran as a "hell" or a "nightmare," but aside from a few striking glimpses — like the image of the family standing on their patio, among their neighbors, scanning the night sky for antiaircraft missiles — we get little sense of their lives there or the circumstances of their escape.

A glimpse like that?

Perceiving a situation seems, at first glimpse, like a remarkably simple operation.

"Only because the shroud of secrecy that covers all of N.S.A. operations is so thick does a glimpse like this come as a shock".

After two decades of economic and political liberalization, the city's potential was no longer hidden, glimpsed like a shadow disappearing around a corner.

The best you can hope for is a glimpse, like fragments of a not-yet-dreamed dream, of a genre slouching toward birth.

But "Committed" reaches its generic destination by a circuitous, unusual route, in which intriguing possibilities are glimpsed like scenery through a car window.

And notwithstanding Mr. Nitardy and his neighbors, there is a sort of transgressive pleasure in ambling along the Promenade and taking in the backyards -- it's an unexpectedly intimate glimpse, like being in an elevator and standing inches from the nape of someone's neck, far closer than normal personal space allows.

The data provided a small glimpse like one of those puzzles where one piece is take away at a time before revealing the entire picture.

And that's not even counting the more unsettling objects you might glimpse, like a car tire or a shopping cart or a beer can.