The phrase "a bare hint of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a very small or subtle indication of something.
Example: "The painting had a bare hint of blue, suggesting the sky in the background."
Alternatives: "a faint suggestion of" or "a slight trace of".
At one point, recalling the bitter dismissals of the United Nations last winter, he said, with a bare hint of satisfaction, "I did warn those who were bashing the U.N. that they had to be careful because they may need the U.N. soon".
A bare hint of that is in the biopic Get on Up, mostly with a short scene of Brown with his short natural doing a playful sing of "Say it, I'm Black and I'm Proud" with a group of black school children.
I gingerly approach my 20-year-old daughter, testing the waters with the bare hint of motherly guidance, then awkwardly throwing out advice as if it were an afterthought.
Outline, as the chair is called, has a voluptuous scoop of a seat suspended within the barest hint of a steel frame, like a bead of water clinging to a corner of a spider web.
And what you get is a shape made of smoke with the barest hint of skin — a person, a column, a cloud, anything.
Almost every item had a subtle twist: a wrap of material across the hips of a pantsuit, giving the barest hint of Indian style; or glitter or sparkle on a simply cut top.
The delicate 2011 gewürztraminer ($20.99) from Martha Clara Vineyards, in Riverhead, also an everyday wine, displays an agreeable litchi aroma and the barest hint of a flirtatious sweetness.
In "Look Down, Fair Moon," a new cycle by the Welsh composer Huw Watkins, he affected a moody nonchalance — a studied plainness, with little vibrato and the barest hint of a slide — to convey the moonbeam-drenched nocturnal ruminations of Dylan Thomas, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin and the other poets in Mr. Watkins's artful setting.
Though these scarcely sound appetising, bare hints of them build the complexity and richness of cheeses' flavours and smells.
I might be reading too much into a banal reaction shot, but one touch I did like was a hint of passion for Marple: when her predictions come true and another person is murdered, a close-up of Marple reveals the barest hint of a thrill of delight coursing through her.
With the barest hint of a smile, he took a few steps and closed his feet in fifth position, quieting the crowd with an iconic gesture: his arms raised to either side, he cupped his palms as if holding up the world.
