Cantor is adept at summoning history (a rapid glimpse, say, of Malcolm X in Ghana, "admonitory, precise," sipping tea and dispensing homilies in a bar in Accra), and even better at showing historical consciousness at work, claiming its role in the psychic drama along with guilt and lust and petty self-regard and the barter economy of moral reckoning.
Entering Maz's palace is like being transported back to Mos Eisley, even down to the way the scene is shot and edited, with rapid-fire glimpses of the new cantina's many odd inhabitants.
Taken together, these data suggest impairment in patients with Parkinson's disease of several visual parameters that are generally preserved within the blindsight visual system, namely detection of motion in the lateral field, initiation and execution of appropriately targeted saccades, 'first glimpse' rapid visual appreciation of negative (vitally important?) facial expressions.
In the weird dusk, those on the rafts will glimpse rapids and canyons on a two-hour trip before a very early breakfast at the McKinley Chalet Resort along the Nenana.
EST analysis offers a rapid and valuable first glimpse of gene expression at a particular life cycle stage or under certain environmental conditions.
While the economy has shown glimpses of rapid growth the last few months, inflation has remained benign, allowing the central bank to keep interest rates steady for more than a year.
The files, dated last fall, show a glimpse at Postmates' rapid growth in the delivery business, despite a competitive landscape which includes DoorDash, Grubhub and now Uber Eats.
Through sheer force of will, he mowed down the last twenty miles between him and double digits, and these digits he then reduced by tens and twelves until, finally, he could glimpse it: "Cedar Rapids 34".
It provides a glimpse into the region's rapid ethnic makeover not because it is a reflection of the city as it will be, but because it is the gateway to that future.
Certainly, some of the proposed ideas will be extremely difficult to achieve with current technology (e.g. genetically engineering improved efficiency of rubisco in wheat), but rapid advances in de novo enzyme design provide tantalizing glimpses of a different future (Jiang et al. 2008).
Nevertheless, the authors have provided a glimpse of the natural changes in behaviour — both rapid and slow — that occurred tens of thousands of years ago.
