Sentence examples for definite hint from inspiring English sources

There was a definite hint of that other Italian designer: Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy.

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A man who seems to be favorably disposed toward the entire world, Schary has a chatty, friendly, homespun manner reminiscent of the late Will Rogers', but there is in it a definite hint of a firm-minded and paternalistic Sunday-School teacher.

Tessa Hadley's short stories are set in a carefully delineated contemporary landscape – complete with Facebook, MP3 players and mobile phones, and in the background such current world events as the war in Afghanistan – yet they have a definite hint of the 19th century about them.

Elsewhere, the increasingly frantic search for a big, new guitar band throws up Palma Violets – glowering atmospherics with definite hint of Wu Lyf in the pained vocals – and California's Haim, who, live at least, sound no more like their advance billing of folk-meets-R&B than they do the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band, but they clearly have decent songs to spare.

Born in 1936 and a generation older than most punks, Vega could remember the 50s rock'n'roll it referenced first hand, while the spirit of the late 60s counterculture occasionally seeped into his lyrics: there's a definite hint of the anti-Vietnam protest about Ghost Rider's refrain of "America's killing its youth".

But the mention of his family's struggling goose-breeding business and the references in the program to Mattsun's Fruit Period are definite hints that he may not exist.

Others like the by-election held yesterday in the South Yorkshire seat of Barnsley Central offer something much less definite: a hint, at most, that the weather may be about to change.The headlines this morning focus on the desperate fate of the Liberal Democrats, who fell from second place at the May 2010 election to sixth place (losing their deposit last night into the bargain).

Not definitive, just definite.

Surprisingly, they had an even richer, more sophisticated taste, with stronger toffee hints and a definite brown sugar presence.

The first is work and pay; the second, as hinted by the definite article and those uppercases, is ceremonial sublimity, along with a snig (a word he's fond of) of literary politics and not too much pay or work.