We make glancing acquaintance with members of three generations without gaining real intimacy with any of them.
Mr. David is the reverse: he makes glancing allusions to books and movies and relies on his own amusing, unexpected flights of fancy".
The President made glancing references to the two wars which he inherited and in both cases, promised that American troops will soon come home.
Last Sunday's Arts & Leisure featured a profile of me that made glancing reference to my environmental work ["What, Meryl Worry?" by Jesse Green].
In Renaissance times, the bright young people knew what they were talking about when they made glancing references to Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Mr. Pilati wore lightly the weight of history, making glancing references to the Helmut Newton/YSL years in the hard makeup, a sharp trench coat and a general sense of perversity nestling under a bourgeois surface.
He makes glancing reference to the possibilities of abuse and denies flatly that the police are arresting people in order to expand the DNA database, an allegation made convincingly in a report by the Human Genetics Commission.
The city is sunk into recession's mire, unemployment tops 10percentt — black male unemployment edges toward 50percentt — and foreclosure threatens working class families, and the candidates made glancing mentions of all of this.
Mr. Benza makes glancing, disparaging references to a onetime Newsday colleague, Anthony Scaduto, grousing that his co-worker has heart trouble and ought to die so that Mr. Benza could inherit his job.
On Monday, Mr. Obama made glancing reference to the policy speech he gave on Thursday, in what seemed to be an effort to tamp down Republican criticism that as he prepares to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, he had declared a premature end to the war on terrorism.
His low, teasing cross found Nikica Jelavic who made glancing contact.
