Others contain glimpses of material culture, anonymously made functional objects with fascinating histories of their own.

She receives vivid visions that contain possible glimpses of the future, and can also see into people's minds and project false imagery into them (e.g. in "Becoming, Part Two", when she convinces Giles that she is really Jenny Calendar).

Although the Norths remain the focus of the series, the books contain a good deal of political and social commentary, a richly detailed look at the changing life in New York City, as well as glimpses of the outlying suburban counties.

It is written in an engaging fashion and still readable to this day, containing many fascinating stories and glimpses into 12th century life.

The commercials, the first for the company by J. Walter Thompson/Chicago, which obtained the account in October, contain only glimpses of 7-Eleven stores, and no shots whatsoever of smiling store personnel.

But they contain glimpses of how Mr. Bush wants Americans to interpret the war so far - as well as plenty of fodder for future historians to debate.

"Only One New York" contained intimate glimpses of New York City's Roma subculture.

Set in Hollywood in the 1960s, the novel also contains candid and irreverent glimpses into the machinations within the film industry.

Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.

The collection contains glimpses of the author's life and the culture of Burma, as well as fiction.