glancing

Making superficial, obtuse contact with something.

His fist caught a glancing blow to my jaw.

She looked with a grudging eye on this waste of life and beauty—there was none for him; and the sight of the coffin, with its deep black pall borne slowly along the glancing path, was a contrast of unutterable misery. It was a relief to change the cheerful meadow for the dark umbrage of the forest which they now entered.

A sideways look; a glance.

No doubt, sometimes there are comprehensive glancings at, and interminglings of different future eras of prophecy.