In the early morning glimmer, I thought a lot about the direction my life is presently heading in.
The next morning brought a glimmer of hope.
Sunsets are equally awesome and have the advantage, in winter, of an early show: The sun's descent behind the Panamint Mountains begins in late afternoon, and the final glimmer fades away well before dinnertime.
At night, scant light glimmers in the few shops still left open.
There is another sort of stillness to the glimmering night of Titania and Oberon's forest realm.
As a private cocktail party clinked and murmured on the first floor of the David H. Koch Theater, home to the New York City Opera and New York City Ballet, on Thursday night, we felt a glimmer of what it must have been like to be a gladiator on the floor of the Colosseum.
In the new film, which has its premiere on CBS on Sunday night, Charlie's first glimmer of recognition comes when his fellow bakery employees make fun of him, as they always have, and he realizes he doesn't think the idea of "pulling a Charlie Gordon" is so funny anymore.
The audience's long wait for seats was the only glimmer one evening this winter that an experience unrelated to everyday business might occur.
"In the end some good may come of the whole episode," she told the Observer on Friday afternoon, as the last glimmer of daylight disappeared across the water on this northernmost outpost of Britain.
Their early-season, league-leading 12 2 record went glimmering the night before, when they blew a 6 1 lead against these same Nats, who scored a shattering six runs in the eighth inning, against five different Mets pitchers, and walked off with an 8 6 win at Citi Field.
