Sentences with phrase «only fleeting glimpses»

More often than not, camera traps yield only fleeting glimpses of target species passing by the lens, leaving researchers with perhaps two or three clear frames with which to study.

In fact, the Farrellys offer only fleeting glimpses of Rosemary's true appearance for most of the picture, and even then, at a distance or only in part — another wise move, for when we finally do get a good look at Paltrow in full makeup (which, it must be said, is nowhere on par with, say, the work on Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor movies), one doesn't laugh at her since one has gotten to know Rosemary so well.

There's nothing quite as iconic here as the ghostly handclaps behind Lili Taylor in the first one, and only fleeting glimpses of co-stars Maria Doyle Kennedy (Orphan Black), Franka Potente, and Simon McBurney.

There's a funny movie trapped somewhere inside Stealing Harvard, but the finished product offers only fleeting glimpses of it.

While we saw only a fleeting glimpse of Dr. Henry Wu in yesterday's trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom trailer, a new round of footage has further clarified his role in the film.

It was only a fleeting glimpse of one of the most venomous creatures on the planet but it was enough for this fearful traveller.

Not exact matches

Jackson's movie is not, of course, without its rewards.The expository opening scenes, in which Smaug lays waste to the dwarvish mountain kingdom of Erebor, are intense yet understated, with the monster seen only in fleeting glimpses, like Ishiro Honda's Godzilla.

But this is not a movie about people or even about aliens (we only get fleeting glimpses of the enemy).

He is quickly snatched out of the blue by a horrific monster, seen only in a fleeting glimpse.

The grey, wet, boarded - up desolation of the landscape could only be the post-Katrina lower 9th Ward, and I found the film's fleeting glimpses of that more electrifying than the introduction of Frankie (Scoot McNairy) and Russell (Ben Mendelsohn), a pair of lowlifes setting up a robbery with Squirrel (Vincent Curatola).

The truth is that I can only really enjoy the V12's epic rush to the limiter on Millbrook's mile straight, and although I catch fleeting glimpses of the chassis» talent, this is just a taste of what the One - 77 has to offer.

But only to catch a fleeting, incomplete glimpse of how the whole process appears.

Bas's tempers this kind of carefree humor with a much darker side, of which we only get fleeting glimpses; at one point in the film he mentions that, for many years, he was convinced he would die young.

Josie Tucker's «Gamboyage» (2017) tells the story of gamboge paint without ever depicting it, but only by providing a fleeting glimpse through an optical illusion.

I was so far away from happiness and joy that my only hope of finding fleeting glimpses of those feelings was at a bar or just in a bottle.