Sentence examples for like a glance from inspiring English sources
Which is why I seem to be waiting for some sign from him, some private signal, for we've always been so close that a single thought can pass between us, like a glance.
GDP figures are like a glance in the rear-view mirror: they tell you where the economy has come from, but not where it is or where it is going.
It's almost like a glance back to Reich's music of the 1970s, with the dense, uniform soundworld, many of the textures generated from interlocking canons, and much less harmonic movement than in most of his recent pieces.
Rather, he's trying to cultivate a different sort of attention: not focussed, straight-ahead scrutiny but something more like a glance out of the corner of your eye that catches something bright and twitching that you then can't identify when you turn to look.
The effect is like a glance.
I for one was thinking of what the first Touch Bar games would look like, or how it could act as a Rainmeter or MenuMeters-like at-a-glance view of my machine.
Whether it's a guy at church who looks like him at a glance, or someone around Harlem who walks like Trayvon, the memory is inescapable.
Too often these stories land like a glancing blow and not the knockout punch.
If the designers had committed wholeheartedly to either polarity of action or horror, Revelations may have been a headshot, but what we're left with is more like a glancing blow".
Sometimes I'd talk my husband into joining, as he likes a quick glance at the latest gossip magazines laying around at every salon.
It wasn't false, exactly, but it did crystallize the kind of going-through-the-motions routine that resides deep within our boring human souls — like stealing a glance at oneself in the mirror while sobbing.
