Sentences with phrase «only occasional glimpses»

While the battle sequences are sustained and often repetitive, the true horror of the gruesome activity is underplayed, giving only occasional glimpses of bloody, mutilated bodies and devastated homes.

Instead, Elizabeth's life is told largely through the eyes of others, with only the occasional glimpse afforded into that ornately decorated head; there's no tracing her emotional journey as a leader, or as a wife, through the season when she's so constantly shuffled to the edges of its story.

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Unfortunately, for the next half - century it is only through occasional glimpses given us by the later books of the New Testament and a few other Christian writings that we can conjecture the processes of development.

The process has been typical in the way that virtually all decisions are being hammered out behind closed doors, with only an occasional public glimpse obtained during sham public joint conference «meetings.»

Occasional glimpses of the person Claire used to be — a cheerful, accomplished professional with a good marriage — only highlight what a wreck she's become, encased in her own suffering and punishing everyone who crosses her path.

Similar to her 2010 series,... to walk without destination and to see only to see, Barth registers her presence by including the occasional glimpse of her hand as it works to draw the line of light.