Peirce only glancingly lets her heroine have a mild discovery-of-powers moment that feels 'X-Men'-ish. The story is glancingly referenced in Stephen King's book "Danse Macabre". Hurricane Gloria glancingly struck Massachusetts in 1985. He later claimed that the blacklist "only glancingly bruised" his career. The "Monaghan" rammed the submarine glancingly, then sank it with two depth charges.