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Recent Examples of side-glanceAn apparently penniless street boy in a torn jacket carries a big woven-wicker basket on his back, casting a side-glance in hopes of scoring some work as a porter.—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023 Their humor also springs from signature side-glances and hand gestures.—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
At the end of The Age of Innocence (1920), Edith Wharton skips forward from her 1870s setting to give us an early-twentieth-century glimpse of her protagonist Newland Archer.
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Michael Gorra,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
The crew has also appeared live on camera throughout NASA’s continuing broadcast of the mission, allowing candid glimpses of their life in space.
Rather, Lawrence focused his gaze on the multiracial mass of people who had come together to view the inauguration.
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Michael Lobel,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2026
With his head bowed and gaze fixed, the golden retriever looks less like a pet on a routine car ride and more like a main character in a melancholy music video.
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Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
Beneath the garish camouflage paint job, this is a first peek at the Peaq, a seven-seater all-electric SUV that’s the biggest, most luxurious and high-tech Škoda ever built.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
5 Apr. 2026
Newfound fossils from a site in southwestern China, preserved in exquisite detail, offer a peek at a time in Earth’s distant past called the Ediacaran (635 million to 542 million years ago).
Eclipses give solar scientists a rare chance to study the sun's wispy outer atmosphere, or corona, which is usually drowned out by the overwhelming glare of the solar disk.
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Mike Wall,
Space.com,
5 Apr. 2026
With any degree of glare the driving mode indications are difficult to read.
In one scene from the film’s original script, the King of Pop stares at his reflection in the mirror, capturing his sorrowful gaze as police car lights flash behind him.
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Brent Lang,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2026
To play for Hurley is to understand that taking a play off is not acceptable, that bending over and tugging at your short hems – a sure sign, in Hurley’s estimation, of weakness – will earn you either a death stare or a run up the steps.
Ho Tzu Nyen’s virtual reality installation Voice of Void, 2021, which was on view at Berlin’s Neugerriemschneider gallery this spring, offers a glimpse of such possibilities.
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Daniel Birnbaum,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
Set the scene Soaring at 1,000 feet above sea level on the St James hills, just a 10-minute drive from the heat and bustle of the west coast’s towns and beaches, Apes Hill offers a refreshing breeze and views of both the Caribbean and Atlantic.