Eurocrats in Brussels are only faintly aware of living in a paralysed country.
Did she even know the special day was coming up? "I was faintly aware of it".
But many of his colleagues were only faintly aware of his creative work.
She was faintly aware of the faucet being turned on, and of the need to move quickly.
Even at the time, most people in New York and New Jersey were only faintly aware of the potential for disaster.
That afternoon, thinking of Jason's eyes and the slight mischief in his serious mien, I was faintly aware of others travelling the same circuits, pulled by an unidentifiable gravitational force into certain habits of mind and psyche.
As I poured myself a succession of pints of cask ale from our favoured brewery, I was faintly aware of Sandra's critical eye on the far side of the bar.
Although I was faintly aware that, in theory at least, God's love extended beyond them to everyone under our roof, I also knew that people like us were lucky enough not to need it.
The terror attacks of September 11th focussed our attention on problems that we were only faintly aware of or had ignored entirely: a degraded level of domestic and foreign intelligence; the threat of chemical and biological weapons; the presence of terror cells from Tashkent to Jersey City.
Or perhaps we shared a sense of anticlimax because we were faintly aware of something rumbling back home in Cairo, where millions of people were about to launch an epic fight against political and economic exclusion – not by withdrawing to a no man's land but by confronting state authority head-on, in the streets.
Homer is faintly aware that something is wrong, but is unsure what is happening.
