In Fitzgerald's opinion, no picture "mirrored even faintly the younger generation" until 1923, when "Flaming Youth" came out, and then Hollywood drove the theme into the ground.
With car sales starting to inch higher and the threat of bankruptcy only faintly visible in the rear-view mirror, Ford is loosening its purse strings once again.
The bar has a huge back-bar mirror topped with an impressive, if faintly absurd, wooden pediment and features a collection of premium liquor, including a half-dozen grappas.
It was only the pleasure he felt in his tactile awareness of sewing and fabric, of the hands of the maker in the garment, that led him, again and again, to risk the danger of seeing himself — literally; reflected in the mirror of a bar, perhaps — as somehow faintly ridiculous.
(Its subtitle, "Reflections from Damaged Life," is faintly suggestive of Proust's definition of literature as a "mirror held up to life," but it's as though the mirror were now reduced to a jagged assemblage of glittering shards, the better to reflect a traumatized culture).
This coming weekend, the Jewish Museum in New York will open "Mirroring Evil," an exhibition on Nazi imagery that has caused an uproar faintly reminiscent of the dispute over the 1999 "Sensation" show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Mirroring her view of Africa's public and private side, Ms. Chipaumire's flinty, faintly masculine presence seems to be about what you think you see versus what is really there.
Lane looked faintly interrupted.
Prof. Richard Dawkins smiles faintly.
Barnes looks faintly harassed.
