Yet Billy would only ever faintly know of it.
When M. could not recognize anybody else, he still appeared to faintly know his wife.
Here in the flat hinterland of Berlin, and in the capital itself, life has a single focus during the months of May and June: the noble, delicate, faintly sweet stalks known to Germans as the "vegetable of kings".
She is experimenting with increasingly adventurous picking techniques (this year, she sorted some cherry by color, to emphasize micro-variations within her farms), and she is building a market for the dried skin of coffee cherry, which can be used to make a faintly fruity herbal tea known as cascara.
He smiled faintly, relenting: "I know, I get it — the couch is what makes it a TV show.
He was never exactly popular, but he was well known, talked about, useful to people, and faintly despised.
It's faintly ridiculous to feel sentimental about an album you've known so briefly.
She would have known that things were all right, from the kindly serious faintly smiling way that Sylvia was talking to me.
You know that faintly disorienting feeling you get when you see a good, weird band for the first time?
'It's partly the new feminists,' says Bayley, brandishng his biscuit, 'who are, quite rightly, wanting to find out who they are - a faintly ridiculous phrase I know, but there's some truth to it.
