Sentence examples for instant glimpse from inspiring English sources

At a dinner this spring for former President Gerald R. Ford, Vice President Dick Cheney so artfully skewered his old boss, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, that the crowd got an instant glimpse into one of the closest and most important relationships in the nation's capital.

They aspire not to disclose the timeless, but to discern the transient, to clasp the texture of experience — a passing moment, an instant's glimpse, a sensation as compressed and meticulously evoked as a haiku.

The threat has passed, but, for an instant, we glimpsed both his temper and his power, and saw that they amount to the same thing.

And yet to be in Japan in the days after the wave, to watch a nation realize the devastation of that instant, was to glimpse a people torn between the instinct for calm and the cry of alarm.

In an instant I got a glimpse into how vulnerable motherhood was going to make me.

The instant I caught of glimpse of that pregnancy test screen, I knew my life was going to change.

For an instant, he thought he glimpsed her parents.

Players can also use lifelines that offer hints at words and watch instant replays that provide a glimpse into their opponent's tactics.

I see the teenager who was navigating the social moirés of high school, and I see them all in a glimpse, in an instant.

Workers from nearby buildings ignored the cold weather to linger outside 245 Park Avenue in anticipation of getting a glimpse of Rocker, who took an instant dislike to Mets fans when the Braves played at Shea Stadium.

Singapore known variously as the "Lion City" or "Garden City," the latter for its many parks and tree-lined streets—has also been called "instant Asia" because it offers the tourist an expeditious glimpse into the cultures brought to it by immigrants from all parts of Asia.