Sentences with phrase «see fleeting glimpses»

Here, in tiny images painted right on metal flashing, we see fleeting glimpses captured in timeless poetry.

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When it comes to Jesus, a portrait is not an achievement of external verisimilitude, but a means for us to catch a fleeting and clouded glimpse of the divine, to allow the eye to see what the mind might not know unaided.

The final clue in this epic journey is the word Tolkien invented to describe what he saw as a good quality in a fairy - story — and that word was eucatastrophe, this being the notion that there is a «sudden joyous «turn»» in the story, where everything is going well, «giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy», whilst not denying the «existence of dyscatastrophe — of sorrow and failure».

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.

We see the heavy toll, but fleeting glimpses of normalcy and joy illuminate why they persist.

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

When Wild isn't buffing the floor with the carcasses of the various thick - necked goons who dare to cross his path, he tries gambling his way to the «f — k you money» he needs in order to quit Vegas for good and retire to a life of leisure in Corsica (seen in fleeting, dreamlike glimpses, perhaps to satisfy some sort of French tax credit).

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.

We caught fleeting glimpses as they leaped through the trees above us, and also saw a a few coatis (raccoon - like animals) peeking through the undergrowth.

Everything around me from remembered, fleeting glimpses right up to things I saw yesterday have influenced me.