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  • Glances at one another were full of peace and gratitude.

    Jen Grisanti: Wellness Immersion Retreat = New Year, New Plans Jen Grisanti 2012

  • This moment of "liberation" recurs in her fiction, in Kindheitsmuster (Patterns of Childhood, 1976) – in which she tries to reconnect East Germans to a past from which they believe themselves acquitted; and in the story Blickwechsel (1970), translated as Exchanging Glances (1993), where a family snatch their belongings and flee westward toward the Oder-Neisse border.

    Christa Wolf obituary 2011

  • Glances at one another were full of peace and gratitude.

    Jen Grisanti: Wellness Immersion Retreat = New Year, New Plans Jen Grisanti 2012

  • Glances at him as if to determine whether he was speaking to her.

    The Writer and the Talker Con Chapman 2012

  •   Glances bounced from husband to wife, and from friend to friend.

    The Jewish Goodbye Daniel Passamaneck 2010

  •  Glances at her watch, pulls keys from the register, on her way somewhere.

    Blue Pinto 2010

  • In James R. Hepworth's 1998 book "Stealing Glances: Three Interviews With Wallace Stegner," the novelist said that his wife had been instrumental to his success: "She has had no role in my life except to keep me sane, fed, housed, amused and protected from unwanted telephone calls; also to restrain me fairly frequently from making a horse's ass of myself in public."

    Sandy Herold; Mary Page Stegner 2010

  • Glances at the clock on the glass wall and sees the people behind it.

    Mind Games 2010

  • If there's an actor who has come to embody independent film, it's Buscemi, whose first starring role, in 1986's Parting Glances, happened to be as one of the first movie characters ever depicted as suffering from AIDS.

    Marshall Fine: Interview: Steve Buscemi on St. John of Las Vegas and the Indy Film World 2010

  • If there's an actor who has come to embody independent film, it's Buscemi, whose first starring role, in 1986's Parting Glances, happened to be as one of the first movie characters ever depicted as suffering from AIDS.

    Interview: Steve Buscemi on St. John of Las Vegas and the Indy Film World 2010

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