Sentence examples for touching glimpse from inspiring English sources

And although death and loss – including a brief and touching glimpse of Thomson's relationship with his own dying father-in-law – seem to be what drives the book, it's about so much more than that.

Richard Lawson in The Atlantic Wire: Though I guess it's possible the difference really is merely generational – the rich late '90s gave us Sex [and The City], while the wobbly '10s give us Girls, a witty and occasionally touching glimpse into our immediate neighbors' lives.

I had just gotten a touching glimpse of the power of our visibility.

For those enthralled with the icon of children's television, this is a touching glimpse into one man's memorable career.

WHERE DOES YOUR HIDDEN SMILE LIE? Filming Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at work in the editing room on their 1996 "Sicilia!," Pedro Costa offers an amazingly revealing study of the moviemaking process, an artistic manifesto on the wing, and a touching glimpse of an exceptional love story.

"Dream River" (Drag City), released in September, peppers the formula with dark humor and a few true, touching glimpses of romanticism, most notably on the gently intricate "Small Plane".

There are touching glimpses of family in this show – her father 'with his diamond eyes, his voice life-size'; her grandmother 'in the pancake make-up she never wore in her life' – and moments of sparse beauty, too, as the violin magically spins its own web of accompanying lines.

The letters, at turns chatty, amusing, and touching, offer a glimpse into Hemingway's more private self.

He was reluctant to share details, but I was touched by the glimpse of a tenderhearted man doing his best in an impossible parenting conundrum -- alone.

In its heyday, nothing could touch Dallas for a glimpse into the lives of the mega-rich.

Humanizing a world normally glimpsed only it tabloid flashes, the play is also, and most memorably, a touching hymn to the sustaining bonds of fraternal affection.