We have all made the mistake of seeing a glimpse of sunlight and immediately ditching the trousers for some shorts and sliding sunglasses on.
Sometimes seeing a glimpse of placard-wielding demonstrators is as close as the commander in chief can get to seeing the face of national discontent.
"From real-time conversations to location-aware devices and community-powered media we are already seeing a glimpse of future things to come.
While I think that we have all seen enough Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian poses with her butt selfies, I'll admit, seeing a glimpse of the lives of Pope Francis, the First Family, and NASA astronauts via their selfies, is pretty cool (certain questionable instances aside).
TV drama is essentially an actors' form, partly because of the importance of on-air trails in promoting new shows: having seen someone in A, we are expected to tune in to B, after seeing a glimpse of them in it just before the news.
Studios are already seeing a glimpse of that with Jim Carrey's A Christmas Carol.
