glimmerings

And just how widespread must "glimmerings" of morality be among other animals before Collins -- who, after all, knows a thing or two about genes -- begins to wonder whether our moral sense has evolutionary precursors in the natural world?

Archive 2006-08-01 Mac 2006

Frank Wisner, the retired American diplomat sent by Obama to Cairo this past week to tell Mubarak that the U.S. saw his rule coming to an end, said Mubarak had to keep a leadership role at least temporarily if the "fragile glimmerings" of progress were to take hold as quickly as needed.

Clinton: 'Perfect Storm' Brewing In Middle East AP 2011

But she resolutely dodged with him, until the first glimmerings of reason returned and he gave over.

THE UNEXPECTED 2010

It was at St. Estephe that I saw the glimmerings of what would later become his all-out assault on true Southwestern cuisine, utilizing his French techniques to prepare the dishes.

Jay Weston: Chef John Sedlar's Innovative Latin Food at Playa Jay Weston 2011

Now, the foregoing were the glimpses and glimmerings that came to me when, in Cell One of Solitary in San Quentin, I stared myself unconscious by means of a particle of bright, light - radiating straw.

Chapter 6 2010

Frank Wisner, the retired American diplomat sent by Obama to Cairo this past week to tell Mubarak that the U.S. saw his rule coming to an end, said Mubarak had to keep a leadership role at least temporarily if the "fragile glimmerings" of progress were to take hold as quickly as needed.

Clinton: 'Perfect Storm' Brewing In Middle East AP 2011

Or he goes on to fight them ad infinitum, which is the stance of ironic tragedy, a man trying and failing, or achieving victory at even intervals and then again failing – here we see the glimmerings of mythic tragedy.

A Theory of Modes and Modalities Hal Duncan 2009

Frank Wisner, the retired American diplomat sent by Obama to Cairo this past week to tell Mubarak that the U.S. saw his rule coming to an end, said Mubarak had to keep a leadership role at least temporarily if the "fragile glimmerings" of progress were to take hold as quickly as needed.

Clinton: 'Perfect Storm' Brewing In Middle East AP 2011

Frank Wisner, the retired American diplomat sent by Obama to Cairo this past week to tell Mubarak that the U.S. saw his rule coming to an end, said Mubarak had to keep a leadership role at least temporarily if the "fragile glimmerings" of progress were to take hold as quickly as needed.

Clinton: 'Perfect Storm' Brewing In Middle East AP 2011

With this new-found peace of mind came the first glimmerings of drowsiness.

To Build a Fire 2010