The phrase "illuminating glimpse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a brief insight or understanding that sheds light on a particular subject or situation.
Example: "The documentary provided an illuminating glimpse into the lives of those affected by climate change."
Alternatives: "enlightening view" or "insightful peek".
Altogether the show gives an illuminating glimpse of the work of an artist courageous enough to make a drastic change.
But by the end of the play, you catch an illuminating glimpse of the killer inside Harry's politeness, and I wish I could have seen more of it.
The show provides an illuminating glimpse of what went on in American art across a 75-year period with a few surprises and discoveries.
It offered an illuminating glimpse of the musical undercurrents they'd drawn on in making their groundbreaking debut album, Blue Lines, released in 1991.
The exhibition and the accompanying catalogue is an illuminating glimpse into the mind of a photographer who became a curator and an obsessive collector.
The fatwa, titled "Declaration of Holy War Against the Americans Who Are Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places," provided an illuminating glimpse into Mr. bin Laden's mind.
Interspersed with the gore are illuminating glimpses of police life.
The chefs weren't given any constraints on how to describe their farewell feasts, and the entries, printed word for word, provide as illuminating a glimpse into their psyches as they do into their stomachs.
The app illuminates an early glimpse at a virtually augmented future, one in which each individual's experienced reality can be self-determined, or even curated.
NEW HAVEN — A quaking hand, illuminated, is the first glimpse we get of the exquisite Indian dancer Shantala Shivalingappa in her solo program "Akasha".
That failing makes readers, when left unsatisfied by bulky digests of information that seem inadequately synthesized and illuminated, long for a glimpse of the outtakes or the raw materials that they'd like to recompose, by means of their own imaginations and sympathies, into a fuller, more vital, and, in any case, more personal view.
