Gleam in a sentence as a noun

I think HN wasn't a gleam in Paul's eye at that point.

His brown leather shoes gleam in the fluorescent light.

In the second sentence, both "gleam" and "glean" are nonsensical; maybe you'd like "browse"?

At this point, all I can gleam is that the US spies on other countries, as do many others.

"Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye.

Give away two dozen beta accounts to actual people in real life, with that crazy founder gleam in your eyes.

Because if they're falsely passing, hopefully between the code, and tests you could gleam more intent than just through the code itself

NaughtinessThough the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye.

Many have seen this nonsense and concluded that patents in software just don't work long before Android was a gleam in Andy Rubin's eye.

Gleam in a sentence as a verb

It smacks of the superiority complex and has the shiny flawless gleam of the narcissist in the psychopath.

When I think of Padmapper, I think of the naughtiness:"Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye.

Hellbanned for violating a site guideline, huh?Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye.

In short, at the risk of trivializing the argument:The ability to gleam private details about people is having some power over them.

A tech company which only exists as a napkin held between two hungry young men with no asset other than a gleam in their eye gets a notional value of $250k+ on day one.

User iwwr summarized well the problems with the "nothing to hide" argument:"The ability to gleam private details about people is having some power over them.

In the Valley, two kids with a gleam in their eye are assigned a notional value of $100,000 for an idea that all parties do not necessarily expect to be the idea they are working on four weeks from now.

And hey, at least now you know what it's like so it won't be so bad when you come back next week".I suppose he must have spotted the sort of mad murderous gleam that popped into my eye, because I doubt my mangled bleat of "whaaabastardfuhnextweekafuhcrazy" through nerveless lips was all that intelligible.

These ideas, even if they are stripped of their Ivory Tower gleam, are what are slowly percolating into mainstream languages with names like "Enum"++ in Swift and "Optional" in Java.---Generally, to finally provide my personal take, I think that Harper is dead right so long as you consider programming languages to be "means of expression".

Gleam definitions

noun

an appearance of reflected light

See also: gleaming glow lambency

noun

a flash of light (especially reflected light)

See also: gleaming glimmer

verb

be shiny, as if wet; "His eyes were glistening"

See also: glitter glisten glint shine

verb

shine brightly, like a star or a light

See also: glimmer

verb

appear briefly; "A terrible thought gleamed in her mind"