Sentence examples for strange glimpse from inspiring English sources

But 27 years later the waters have almost entirely receded and, as always with buildings abandoned in a hurry and explored decades later, the first photographs of the so-called "town that drowned" revealed an eerie ghostworld, a strange glimpse of a bygone era.

"Here I was getting inside his head and seeing glimpses of a man I thought I knew and also seeing these strange glimpses of myself," he said.

Seeing our lives reflected in these strange glimpses of internet ephemera can be surreal, and Adams tackles this feeling directly.

What strange, defiant glimpses these will someday offer from albums crammed with smiles.

Tolkien professed a childhood interest in Native American stories, with their "bows and arrows … and strange languages, and glimpses of an archaic mode of life, and, above all, forests".

He glimpses strange auras around people that trail off into the sky like strings (or, as he comes to think of them, as lifelines); then he starts to see strange, shrunken men dressed like doctors, creeping around at night wielding huge pairs of scissors.

I'm somehow aware, listening to the piece, of the vast spaces that lie just at the edges of the symphony, the strange regions it glimpses along its time-bending journey that Sibelius at once reveals and shrinks back from exploring.

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It's starting to cloud over, but then you glimpse a strange blob in the sky.

Authorship is a mystery: to see the scratched ink on the flimsy paper of the cheap, brown-backed notebook is to glimpse something strange and magical.

So while we stare endlessly at first couples, we rarely glimpse the strange vastness of their marriages: how a private conversation between two people, ­lying in the same bedroom where Abraham Lincoln slept, can influence an entire nation.