But it may be the first to offer a frightening glimpse of the actual blood pulsing beneath.

Such art gives us a frightening glimpse into a baleful reality fortu- nately beyond our personal experience.

I do not believe privatization is the solution, and the Wall Street collapse in the fall of 2008 provided a frightening glimpse of what could have happened.

It was that thought-that strange and frightening glimpse of finality-which made him look away as Wu Shih came across.

His flashlight flipped alongside him, showing frightening glimpses of the trailer's undercarriage.

Instead, she had been given a strange, almost frightening glimpse of the past.

Disorder of any kind, Ms. Douglas writes, provided a frightening glimpse into the chaos inherent in the universe.

Mr. Houser, whose kidney problems gave him a frightening glimpse of death, said he hoped the project would give him a kind of immortality.

A lot of these characters' thoughts about their predicament never surface except in quick, frightening glimpses, some of which seem unduly abrupt.

It made him turn and look at me, a frightening glimpse of eyes, then down at the floor again.