Sentence examples similar to a faint half from inspiring English sources

A monk, briefly appearing before Moroni, gives a faint half-smile, the measure of both his shyness and his daring.

An awareness of the weaknesses of the flesh and the pleasures of surrendering to those weaknesses flickers in her eyes and in the faint half-smile that plays around her lips.

For a long time our family couldn't go into any art gallery without me gesturing at some portrait and quoting Browning's sinister lines: "Paint must never hope to reproduce the faint Half-flush that dies along her throat" (with some Hammer Horror emphasis on "throat").

While every soldier climbed to the top of the pole, the same soldier fainted half way up, lost his grip and fell.

On exactly half of the trials a faint uppercase letter was flashed for 53 ms and then masked by randomly oriented line segments.

His new wife, holding a half-dozen roses, offered a faint smile from the passenger seat.

In the half-light, he gave a faint smile.

There's a faint tone of mockery in Depp's mildness, in his secret half smile, though his face can darken with rage.

They have never noticed that I still have a faint Linea Nigra from giving birth over a year and a half ago.

Anthony Page's majestic production ebbs and flows with O'Neill's play: a high-voltage first half, a fainter, more meandering last act, some Angela's Ashes passages, some thunderbolt moments.

Inevitably, there is a faint frisson of sexuality, especially when there is a hint of half-hidden nakedness.