1. glancing - Noun
2. glancing - Adjective
3. glancing - Verb
of Glance
Shooting, as light.
Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. Oscar Wilde
Their religion is unfeasible, for one cannot richly meet the glancing present ... without long discipleship and secure sustenance. Paul Goodman
Loveward above the glancing oar. James Joyce
The real story can never be told. It is untellable. The real (as real) is inaccessible, being gone in time. There is no point in glancing at the past, in summoning it up, in re-examining it, except on behalf of art - that is, the meaningful-real. William Saroyan
I felt that some horrible scene or object lurked beyond the silk-hung walls, and shrank from glancing through the arched, latticed windows that opened so bewilderingly on every hand. H. P. Lovecraft
How long have you been a Wiccan?' 'A what?' 'A pagan. A witch.' 'I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.' Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?' 'Wizard has a Z' He looked at me blankly. 'No one appreciates me.' I muttered. Jim Butcher