By then we had put behind us the austere beauty of the wild and apparently limitless moors, whose glimpses of civilisation amounted to woebegone sheep and the occasional stone wall, and began shadowing the river Esk.
The main event of the evening was the Mahler, whose climactic glimpse of heaven did perhaps owe something to Mozartian poise and ecstasy.
It's the film of a moderate man, whose one glimpse of danger comes when his hero's emotions threaten to run away with him (or, literally, when the hero runs under the urging of his emotions).
Nor should we ignore the memories of previous generations who witnessed the Langridge brothers, John and James, Maurice Tate and the great Ranji, whose batsmanship (glimpsed in the mind's eye, through the filter of contemporary accounts) will always define the Golden Age for those who were born too late.
And that we know Matt, a child whose face we glimpse only when he sees himself in a puddle?
In a Paris Review interview in 1989, Trevor called the short story "an art of the glimpse," whose "strength lies in what it leaves out".
He also has a personal astronomer, Ecclitico, through whose spyglass he glimpses titillating lunar shenanigans.
Your streets curved and climbed, circling around gleaming, Prada-billboarded shopping malls and racing down through construction sites at whose edges I glimpsed neatly terraced vegetable gardens.
This is an organically complete Lear whose end is glimpsed in his first majestic appearance and whose last broken moments pulse with fleetingly recovered strength.
Goldin has always sided with outsiders – the drag queens, drug addicts and wayward friends whose lives are glimpsed in her groundbreakingly raw and intimate photobooks, such as The Ballad of Sexual Dependency and The Devil's Playground.
