The sky was pink with the first glimmer of the dawn.
After so many long years of hopelessness, they represent a small glimmer of light for the people of a dark land.
But as Michael Levi, a policy analyst at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations says, “This is not a glimmer of hope for Copenhagen. But it is good news for the climate.”
A glimmer of hope?
But unlike most of his colleagues in the Senate, Mr McConnell has never shown a glimmer of presidential ambition.
The Brotherhood has a long track record of violence, but the new youth mayprovide a glimmer of hope for change within group.
The doctor's report gave us only a glimmer of hope.
Commissioner Hall says the slowdown in layoffs could be, as he put it, "a glimmer of hope" that the economy could be improving.
But after just 30 minutes of sifting through the garbage mountain, he struck lucky when he spotted a tiny glimmer surrounded by black sludge, wedged between two brown bags.
Go much farther back in time and a lot of what those aforementioned doomsayers have been saying takes on more than a glimmer of truth.
There is still a glimmer of hope in people's eyes when they talk about the law.
There is a glimmer of hope among the bleak assessment.
For the first time in memory the peasant is seeing a glimmer of light, but a substantially appreciating RMB will extinguish that hope.
I love better than any theory the sound of the Gate of Ivory, turning upon its hinges, and hold that he alone who has passed the rose-strewn threshold can catch the far glimmer of the Gate of Horn.
Just like that night in Menlo Park when Edison and his team knew their bulb would light but had no idea how long it would stay lit, we were staring at the glimmer of our own light bulb moments.
