"faint presence" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe a situation where something is present but it is not obvious, noticeable, or easily seen. For example: "The faint presence of smoke lingering in the room suggested that someone had recently been smoking."
The morning light shines through, giving them a halo that indicates a faint presence in the absence of a sitter.
With apparently guileless lucidity Lowell recreates the faint presence of a conspicuously unremarkable individual who stands poignantly outside the understanding of the poet and ourselves.
Ditto my raw tuna with avocado, wasabi and breadcrumbs – faint presence of al dente fish and soft pear, nice crunch of crumbs, an overwhelment of horseradish.
Even when they do not refer to it directly, something of the tower's retro-futurism ghosts the films of Tacita Dean and Jane and Louise Wilson, while its spectral profile has been a faint presence in the paintings of Julie Mehretu, the Ethiopian-American artist whose work is highly attuned to the signals still sent by obsolete modernism.
Segrè also detected in the beam the faint presence of antiprotons--a discovery that earned him and colleague Owen Chamberlain the 1959 Nobel Prize in physics.
Singer's proposals, unlike Murphy's, seem to represent a revision of ordinary morality's requirements of beneficence, despite the faint presence in the history of Western morality of religious obligations of tithing.
As the eYFP fluorescence in the 8-μm sections was faint, the presence of eYFP was detected using an antibody.
Michael Bloomberg has never been the sort of public speaker who makes people faint in his presence.
He made this observation at the home of… Michael Bloomberg has never been the sort of public speaker who makes people faint in his presence.
Staining also occurred in the founder cells, and their derivatives, independently of the treatment (Fig. 3A, D, G, J); however, the staining was very faint in the presence of exogenous cytokinin alone (Fig. 3J).
It is said that women fainted in his presence, so frightened were they by his awesome gaze.
