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During her caliper readjustment Sharadamma looks at Ranoo, smiles and says 'I want to be like you when I'm older.' Ranoo smiles back faintly , knowing that despite all the work she has done, without major changes in government policy and society, Sharadamma will struggle to realise her ambitions.
There was much that was miserable about the time - Tory rule, recession - and although it seems faintly absurd now, rave culture seemed a force for change and insurrection; certainly enough for the gov-ernment to bring in the Criminal Justice Act to crack down on illegal parties.
"I … got to try Google Glass, if only for a few seconds," he tweeted recently, "Was faintly annoyed at just how interesting I found the experience".
Delighted but dazed, it isn't until after we have all slept for a few hours that I clock the date and realise that I feel faintly annoyed: couldn't my daughter have her own birth date instead of sharing her uncle's?
Layerscape (Peat Bogs) is a slow, faintly mesmerising look at the wild North Pennine landscape.
"Six or seven" out of 10 was the faintly damning verdict of one Chinese tourist, an MBA student at Bath University, on the bride's outfit: a glamorous cream Stella McCartney trouser suit with a wide-brimmed hat.
Pleasure boats look like toys on the sea hundreds of metres below, but the writer claims that he can sometimes faintly hear the amplified voices of the tour guides pointing out "the house of Gore Vidal... ...... in different languages.
Like many culture wars, the specific details – orcs! busty maidens! angry bloggers with baroque facial hair! – make it seem faintly absurd, but the underlying arguments are vital.
Actors are always being asked to do unexpected and at times faintly ludicrous jobs.
Of course, no label was stitched to his buttocks to say "Old England", as might once have been the case in a Punch cartoon, but the implication was plain enough, and faintly surprising in a society that frowns, at least officially, on national stereotypes and stories that relate the doings of a Welshman, an Irishman, etc.
Eco-friendly wholemealites with a progressive, faintly Dutch-smelling attitude to life.
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The adverb "faintly " primarily functions as a modifier , specifically intensifying or qualifying the verb or adjective it accompanies. According to Ludwig AI, it indicates a low degree of intensity or perceptibility, suggesting something is barely noticeable. The examples provided by Ludwig illustrate this function across various sensory and emotional contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
