Sentences with phrase «glimmering world»

All that glitters is not sold in Wright's glimmering world.

John Banville won the Man Booker Prize for his latest novel, The Sea, and today you can read The Infinities — which BookPage columnist Robert Weibezahl describes as «a glimmering world that hovers between the lives of humans and the manipulations of the playful Olympian gods, exploring deep and ageless themes of love, loss and the meaning of time.»

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Nick Exarhos, an economist at CIBC World Markets, said the numbers offered a glimmer of hope that the worst could be over.

Knowing and loving Christ begins with seeing glimmers of divinity in the beautiful things of this world.

Fantasy is a pleasant distraction, and sometimes daydreaming even produces ideas which bring solid results, but to live there in that fantasy world, with no evidence of any glimmer of reality to it, just doesn't work.

... 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.

So the stories began to flood back, only now, instead of thinking of them as glimmers of grace, they were seen for what they really were: signs of God transforming the world and breaking their assumptions that this is the way things have to be — cruel, bitter, unjust.

To hear glimmers of thought drift over from the humans at the picnic table to the far left, or to catch the trail end of a passionate speech from just down the grassy hill is to be let in, for a second, to someone else's world.

They glimmer around the Swiss quartz movement, highly regarded as the best in the world.

We're trying to instill that glimmer of hope, to remind people that there is still a lot worth fighting for, and that the world is a wild and mysterious place.»

Hearing that people like what I create means the world to me:) I have just one left in the Glimmer Dot sequin clutch.

Portman is good at playing this weapons - savvy scientist with an obsessive need to know about what happened to her husband inside this glimmering fog world he marched into.

Other notions are more familiar — The Shimmer has more than a glimmer of The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Thing from Another World, and a few other sci - fi classics.

Caught trespassing at the Santa Monica Pier, the characters leap, breaking into an underwater pop dream - world of echoes and slow motion, where the lights of a Ferris wheel glimmer overhead like an aurora borealis.

In Aronofsky's Noah, we are given a brief recap of the creation of Man in God's image, Adam and Eve's temptation, Cain's wickedness spreading throughout the world, and Seth's descendants holding on to the glimmer of hope of their creators vision.

As awards were given to films in the U.S. and World competition categories and the NEXT slate, other speeches from the stage offered personal glimmers of optimism.

It also served as a reminder of how much had changed since her childhood and how everything they thought they knew about the world was just a glimmer of the actual truth.

Despite the historical setting and the much more detailed world - building that swallows most of the film's opening, there's a definite glimmer of his dark personality here, right from the off.

«The books, though, show glimmers of a far more mysterious and even dangerous world... What magic there is in storytelling.»

Glimmering with exquisite detail, Janet McNaughton's beautifully woven story transports readers to a magical medieval world where one young woman navigates the forceful tides of tradition and the ancient power of fairies to define her own destiny.

While every rescue story serves as a little glimmer of hope indicating that the world is changing for the better, they also highlight the prevalence of many different forms of animal abuse.

Step away from the glimmering lights of Dubai and into an old world once forgotten.

But for the few hopeful gamers out there praying for a glimmer of an optimistic world where people ride unicorns and Microsoft, Nintendo and Activision join hands together in weekly sing - alongs of «Kumbaya,» those dreams of online deathmatches in the Facility have been dashed by a pessimistic Rare.

The glimmer of hope and destinations that persist throughout the game keeps the player longing for that metaphorical Flame — some sort of beacon or refuge out in the flooded world.

The museum's glimmering white 10 - story expansion now soars above the city's foggy skyline, a beacon sounding a calling to the art world: San Francisco is important too!

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The Mexican state glimmers like a world beyond ours, something that only lives in a dimension past the stars or the romantic portraits of rare sanguine painters.

This playful and humorous collection of works comes together to leave a palpable sense of dismay at the world in which we find ourselves, with an occasional glimmer of hope for the future.

Certainly we can all think for ourselves and interpret data using logical principles but we must be careful about drawing conclusions based on partial evidence (such as the world temperature plot Mr. MacRae uses in his article «Glimmer of hope for consensus climate honesty is short - lived» which only includes 10 years of readings).

There are a number of ways to separate from the affair partner that we will talk about but, however it is done, don't let there be any question whatsoever that there is a glimmer of hope in the world that there could be anything between you again...

Guerlain's 68 Champs - Elysées flagship store is one of the most beautiful shops on the whole of the world - famous street, and you won't regret your visit to ogle the glimmering Christmas decorations or sniff the wide array of fragrances exclusive to Paris (some of them even spritzed on fans for a fanciful selection experience).

This tree has an old world appeal and will help to add glimmer and glam your Christmas table or mantle.