Sentences with phrase «faint glimmers of»

I certainly agree that the climate science establishment has tended to assume something is so and gone looking for confirmatory evidence, and suspect that there are now faint glimmers of it reverting to the more traditional approach.

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-...]

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.

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.

«Steve, when reading your comments, on occasion I see the faint glimmerings of what was once or possibly could be a decent human being.»

While it is easiest to grasp the prius of creativity - esse in the human case, a process metaphysics sees at least a faint glimmer of subjectivity (which for process thinkers does not imply consciousness!)

... have a minimum of time enter into the world without allowing the faintest glimmer of memory to go with it.

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.

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.

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).

Perhaps the casting director should take up screenwriting or directing, for that faint glimmer of inspiration is the sole one in the abysmal abomination known as Bubble Boy.

Rather, they speak to the tenacity and strength in which the faintest glimmer of hope is enough to keep both the reader and the characters moving forward.

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..

The whole affair sent Nintendo fans into a frenzy, as some users held onto the faint glimmer of hope that only some, and not all, of the orders would be canceled — and that perhaps their own would be spared.

Not exact matches

Catching these glimmers of light, however faint, could indicate whether or not there's an atmosphere, and even what it's made of.

Mostly, the desert painted in shades of red on the canvas of my face, but when I looked in the mirror that morning, on July 25th, I thought I saw a faint hum of brown glimmering beneath the sunburnt crust, threading between the black and ochre tapestry of my almost - full beard.

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.