glancing
adjective
glanc·ing
ˈglan(t)-siŋ 
1
: hitting so as to glance off
a glancing blow
2
: incidental, indirect
made glancing allusions to her past
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Glaser, from a very glancing stylistic consideration, looks like a multicam by comparison.
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2024
Even so, Joonam is too scattershot and distanced from culture and politics to resonate with the news — potentially the film’s greatest draw — in more than a glancing way.
—Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2023
But even those with just a glancing knowledge of the man, or a curiosity about him, are likely to find the play less than riveting, mostly a staged debate about the pros and cons of Moses’s achievement.
—Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
Unlike the deft, well-oxygenated portraits of, say, Alice Neel — notable for their citrus-fresh, glancing quality — Freud’s portraits are infused with a dense, almost humid atmosphere maintained over long hours, days and months.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2024
Even so, Joonam is too scattershot and distanced from culture and politics to resonate with the news — potentially the film’s greatest draw — in more than a glancing way.
—Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2023
But even those with just a glancing knowledge of the man, or a curiosity about him, are likely to find the play less than riveting, mostly a staged debate about the pros and cons of Moses’s achievement.
—Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
Unlike the deft, well-oxygenated portraits of, say, Alice Neel — notable for their citrus-fresh, glancing quality — Freud’s portraits are infused with a dense, almost humid atmosphere maintained over long hours, days and months.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
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“Glancing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glancing. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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