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Glancingly

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glanc·ing  (glnsng)
adj.
1. Oblique in direction; slanting or deflected: struck him a glancing blow.
2. Not straightforward; indirect: made glancing allusions to the scandal.

glancing·ly adv.

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Capote only glancingly engages the horrific crime behind In Cold Blood; Miller and Futterman's real subject is the writing of the book itself.
But what immediately becomes clear as soon as one looks at the piece more than glancingly is that among the blanket's real, three-dimensional folds are scattered a number of purely depicted folds--images of folds that have been woven in.
Written by David Hubbard and directed by ``A Bronx Tale's'' Chazz Palminteri, it's a coincidental and maybe magical affair in which several lost souls intersect - or, at least, pass glancingly.
 
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