Sentences with phrase «faint glimmer»

The phrase "faint glimmer" means a very weak or dim light. Full definition
Strongly written and gracefully structured, Demick's potent blend of personal narratives and piercing journalism vividly and evocatively portrays courageous individuals and a tyrannized state within a saga of unfathomable suffering punctuated by faint glimmers of hope.
Justice League maintains the portentous / brutalist look that director Zack Snyder set for the DCEU, but following the few faint glimmerings of wit in Suicide Squad and Batman v Superman — and the wit, charm and adventure of Wonder Woman — the film maintains the levels of danger and conflict from earlier DCEU films while making a point of balancing its darkness with genuine fun.
There are faint glimmers of light out there (more bookstores opened last year than closed, ebook sales are down) but it's still tough out there.
The take out of Big North Graphite (NRT: TSXV) by Flinders Resources (FDR: TSX) was a welcome sign and a faint glimmer of hope that this is the beginning of much needed junior consolidation in the space.
In the meantime, among the scattered folk who have remained in the liberal pew from days of old, one begins to discern a faint glimmer of interest in such matters as God, prayer and the Bible.
«Steve, when reading your comments, on occasion I see the faint glimmerings of what was once or possibly could be a decent human being.»
We shall have to consider a moment in the unfolding of the universe, that is, a snapshot that exists independently of any consciousness, then we shall try conjointly to summon another moment brought as close as possible to the first, and thus have a minimum of time enter into the world without allowing the faintest glimmer of memory to go with it.
Have the Hammers reached their darkest hour or will there be the faintest glimmer of light to sustain us over the weekend.
They came in a miserable fourth place here in 2005 and expect to do so again, with the faintest glimmer of hope they might pip the Lib Dems to third.
He was sanguine about the coming fight over pre-kindergarten funding, a day after Republican Senate Leader Dean Skelos and Senate co-leader Jeff Klein issued seemingly dueling statements about the pre-K plan, offering a faint glimmer of a future budget showdown.
He breakfasted by candlelight at 11:00 and thought he could see a faint glimmering of light, but at 5 P.M. he still could «neither read nor write without candle.»
But with Obama in office, there's at least the faint glimmer of possibility for an international treaty.
These discoveries are all the more remarkable because astronomers infer them from the faintest glimmers of light, sometimes just a handful of photons.
There is only a faint glimmer of blue light on the stage, barely illuminating the man who just sat up in bed.
The first sign of Spring was just a faint glimmer last week, but I took the opportunity to pull out one of my favorite maxi skirts and opted for a leather jacket (and no other jackets on top!).
Romantic comedies are seldom pulled off without at least a faint glimmer of cheesiness.
Still, buried in amongst his recent roles there was one faint glimmer of hope: Bill Condon's Dreamgirls, a film that earned Murphy an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe win for Best Supporting Actor.
Only the film's supporting cast — which includes such dependable character actors as Pam Grier, John Cleese, Burt Young, Jay Mohr, Joe Pantoliano, and Luis Guzmán — provides the faintest glimmer of hope.
However this faint glimmer of hope in her life is destroyed by the Duke who takes Bess as a live in mistress, while halting the advances of his wife towards Grey (Dominic Cooper).
As for the Seine, the river seemed to absorb even the faintest glimmers of light and reflect them back a hundred times brighter, like some multifaceted mirror.
There are faint glimmers of light out there (more bookstores opened last year than closed, ebook sales are down) but it's still tough out -LSB-...]
But can you explain why Americans love — people who love democracy, people who don't believe in royalty, and yet just the faintest glimmer from Lord Grantham, and we're putty, putty in the hands of British artists.
Fortunately, however, there is a faint glimmer of hope.
I don't think there's a chance of derailing Paris, or the faintest glimmer of stopping city mayors, because their commitment is real.»
With the exception of the faint glimmer of hope from Judge Webber in Addelson v. Sanofi S.A., 2016 WL 6216124 (E.D. Mo..

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