Sentence examples for Faintly suggest from inspiring English sources

(On a Viennese note of that epoch, the pencil-outlined fingers faintly suggest claws).

Rather than invoke — or faintly suggest — German engineering, BMW is focusing on Rolls-Royce's British tradition, embodied by the Silver Ghost, as symbolically British as afternoon tea.

A tattered flag, vaguely American, faintly suggests politics.

It is only then that the astringent Sappho's lyric world is even faintly suggested.

On April 8, though ostensibly seeking the court's assistance in obtaining the answers to the questions, the prosecutor never even faintly suggested any coercivr remedy.

His face faintly suggested mumps, and he once tipped the theatre-ticket girl in the lobby of the Hotel New Yorker three cents for getting him four tickets to a show that was sold out for a month in advance.

It also reveals Wolf‐Ferrari as a composer with a sophistication that his popular Intermezzo from the "Jewels of the Madonna" only faintly begins to suggest.

It seems faintly ludicrous to suggest that if they had only kept that Clinton-era "can do!" attitude, those 2,600 employees many of them secretaries, administrators, the government equivalent of insurance adjusters, and so forth could somehow have helicoptered in and halted a humanitarian crisis that spread several states wide.

No one can be sure, however, how much booze had been demolished and it is faintly ludicrous to suggest his relationship with the players may have suffered because he was on tape saying they had a "psychological barrier" and could not cope with the pressures of an international tournament.

The term initially seemed to suggest something faintly indecent.

Not only did I find plentiful snow but also hotel staff who thought I was faintly mad to even suggest there wasn't any.