Although clearly intended as a sweeping overview, it is more a sweeping glimpse, partial, fragmented and confused.

We get only transient and partial glimpses of the beauty of the world.

Witnesses offered enough partial glimpses of the fleeing sniper to allow a police sketch artist to try a composite drawing, detectives said.

From where he stood, he had a partial glimpse of the front door.

Autobiographies and interviews, each constrained both by what children could see and also by what they would remember as significant, offer inevitably partial glimpses of the experience of ageing.

His one opportunity to gain even a partial glimpse into that spotted room lay in taking a vantage post from across the parking lot.

But when they swung open, you got only a partial glimpse of what lay beyond.

The ATACs could get only a partial glimpse of what was going on at the excavation sight.

But this gives only a partial glimpse into Hepburn's life, and a distorted one at that.

Patterns on different layers overlap or allow partial glimpses of underlying geometries.