glance
glance
They had simply understood his gestures, glances and tones of voice.
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We propose that lateral glances may be related to the atypical perceptual processing capacities of autistic persons.
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Without active participation by the viewer, some unknown proportion of the potentially-direct information in the field of view clearly falls between the glances.
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The inspector glanced at the deputy of the policeman who was smoking a cigarette.
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They acquiesce by nodding their heads or glancing at him when he speaks.
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No veiled future dimly glanced upon him in the moonbeams.
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As glances are held and exchanged, a third party traces back the gaze to its original onlooker.
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In the next section this method is extended to the asymmetrical case of glancing impact.
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Status-conscious gallants sought out the envious glances of those too poor to afford their finery.
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We also found that lateral glances are frequently associated with the presence of a moving object, either the child’s own fingers, a manipulated object, or a surrounding moving object.
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While the conclusion’s examinations of several writers ‘ ‘ glancing back ‘ ‘ on promiscuity’s ‘ ‘ golden age ‘ ‘ in the 1970s diminishes this criticism, those retrospective texts necessarily say something different.
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Infrequently, they also glanced at the experimenter.
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We need to study successful and unsuccessful viewing (and/or film editing) over multiple glances, just as we need research on effects of stimulus information within a single presentation.
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While this is a book that only occasionally glances toward the nineteenth century, it is one that all gender critics will wish to read and reflect upon.
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The “no veiled future” that “dimly glanced” makes manifest, among other things, that there is no future because his being is, at this moment, already completely determined by his future.
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