But for the gun control advocates in his office on Tuesday, Reid's faint-hearted call for reform was not nearly enough.
As they interact with the medium, they generate a faint light called Cherenkov radiation.
All evening, a distant foghorn made faint calls out to sea.
Find it on an otherwise uninteresting new CD by the Faint called "Danse Macabre Remixes" (Saddle Creek/Astralwerks).
Under the circumstances, praise for Rodgers seems somewhat faint: calling this season M.V.P.-caliber is a little like calling a "Mona Lisa" exhibition worthy.
Though seldom hesitant to discuss the plight of fellow Aborigines, Freeman has customarily been measured in her criticism, and she made it clear this year that she had no intention of heeding increasingly faint calls for an Olympic boycott or of using her celebrity as a political lever.
There are faint calls for impeachment proceedings; they will get louder.
I've never seen that before, except on Capitol Hill during the Petraeus hearings: Don Pardo was totally micless, and for the first show of the season, there was no voice saying "It's Saturday Night Live!" Cast members flitted by unannounced until Seth Myers, though if you strained you could hear the faintest calls of "Bill Hader and Darrell Hammondond" in the distance.
A faint, melodic call to prayer came from outside the gate.
You seem to hear, like a moose calling another moose in the mountains, the faint cry of the director, David Lynch.
The AV Club damned it with faint praise, calling it "sporadically funny"; Vulture went for "disgusting and worse, unfunny".
