Despite their great talents, they represent special interests, commercial, aesthetic, political, that allowed them access to sites off limits to the rest of us who wanted, needed a glimpse to heal, or to simply satiate a gnawing need to belong to the human race.
But the abandonment of the armed struggle needs a glimpse of light at the end of the political tunnel and the current Israeli government allows no glimpse.
You don't need a glimpse at the future to figure that one out.
We need a glimpse of it to feel superior, self-satisfied.
But for the character to move us we need to glimpse more clearly the depth of his pain, the sense of misspent chances, the need for connection that fuels his defensive attacks on his wife and son.
Henriksen was also worried about the dark "feel" of the show, saying that all shows needs some glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel.
But the story goes that in the midst of the dark winters and more reflective Advents of years past, churches thought that about now people needed a little glimpse of what was coming.
THE SHOW AND DONT TELL AWARD -- To Michael D. Eisner, the chief executive of Disney, and Michael S. Ovitz, Disney's former president, for providing a much-needed glimpse into the gilded life of corporate executives.
None of this stopped Mark Ribowski from giving us a much-needed glimpse into our media history and an American success story like no other, one long in coming.
If we needed any motivation, a glimpse inside the cave was more than enough to make us stand clear of the walls.
If we want to move on as country, we need a cursory glimpse of what remains hidden below the surface.
