Word: gleamingly
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...account of God's covenant with the Hebrews. When they follow his sometimes bizzare commandments and caprices. God rewards them; when they disobey, he punishes them, often with slavery at the hands of other nations that God is using as instruments of his will. We can perhaps gleam a sense of God's compassion from the following passages...
THERE ARE BOWIE FANS and there are Bowie fans. The former enjoy listening to "Changes," and will occasionally drop a quarter in the juke-box to hear "suffragette City." The latter--the true fanatics--get a maniacal gleam in their eyes when the magic name is mentioned. They've memorized His concert slide sequences and all His songs. They "understand" the lyrics. They "enjoy" watching the famous eye-slicing scene. They produced Peoploids in Hunger City...
...some polishing up. He also brings his outline and all his notes. No other copy of the play exists (the xerox is "on the fritz"); he lives alone; no one else has read his incipient masterpiece. Maces and daggers loom ominously from the walls, Sidney's eyes begin to gleam, and again things seem obvious...
Paolo Carozza's Michael joins the ranks of the marchers spurred by idealistic desires for a better life. Carozza performs refreshingly with a fervent gleam in his eyes, reflecting his dedication to a clean victory. His upright posture and naively strained voice show the determination of youth...
...best. Dan Rice, from all accounts, was a sunbeam; by the play's end he is already half sunk in twilight, dimmed by the onslaught of "modern contrivances" and the newborn industrial mentality. Try to portray a sunbeam a hundred and twenty years later and you may get a gleam of warmth: some charming laughs, perhaps; and, in the end, a confused sense of pleasure and a done of genuine perplexity as to where it came from...