The Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who is under house arrest and has been banned from filmmaking since 2010 on the grounds of political dissent, starts "Taxi," his clandestinely produced film, with a long take of the streets of Tehran, seen through the windshield of a car.
It is highly characteristic of Hollinghurst to oscillate between the high and the low, often within the same paragraph: consider the moment of weird hilarity as Nick, ever the aesthete, absently recalls the details of a Gothic-style church seen through the windshield of his drug dealer's car.
The word applies to the effect of the huge photographs in the show, which depict fantasy landscapes seen through the windshields of luxury vehicles.
The word applies to the effect of the show's huge photographs, which depict fantasy landscapes seen through the windshields of luxury vehicles.
Still, when I sat back there, I found myself leaning over to see through the windshield.
Yet, when they were back in their car, I saw through the windshield that the cops were smiling: where else were missing husbands to be found but in St. Bart's, drinking piña coladas with their chiquitas?
Local children, who perch on cushions to see through the windshield; in a way, they make better mafiosi than the adults, yielding with less caution and complaint to their instinctual urges.
Now, straining to see through the windshield, half thinking about his lousy wipers and half thinking about his bad eye, Kearns had what the Wall Street Journal later called "the kind of inspiration that separates inventors from ordinary people".
Except for the play of sunlight on the waters of inlets, estuaries and tidal basins of the South Jersey coastline, there is not much to see through the windshield for the next three or four hours.
Sundeen's road warrior is decidedly unenthusiastic about the landscape, commenting with ironic detachment on what he sees through the windshield and reacting to events with an eerie, somewhat off-putting submissiveness.
Trent Benefield said he was in the back seat of Sean Bell's sedan when he saw, through the windshield, a man standing in front of the car, pointing a pistol at Mr. Bell.
