Sentence examples for faintly suggested from inspiring English sources

It is only then that the astringent Sappho's lyric world is even faintly suggested.

On April 8, though ostensibly seeking the court's assistance in obtaining the answers to the questions, the prosecutor never even faintly suggested any coercivr remedy.

His face faintly suggested mumps, and he once tipped the theatre-ticket girl in the lobby of the Hotel New Yorker three cents for getting him four tickets to a show that was sold out for a month in advance.

A tattered flag, vaguely American, faintly suggests politics.

(On a Viennese note of that epoch, the pencil-outlined fingers faintly suggest claws).

Rather than invoke — or faintly suggest — German engineering, BMW is focusing on Rolls-Royce's British tradition, embodied by the Silver Ghost, as symbolically British as afternoon tea.

Tumescence, finely suggested in the author's stately, faintly archaic prose, pulses this strange story and stops the heart as no consummation would.

Grilled whale meat was even more compelling: it had the appearance, texture and heft of beef, but faintly saline nuances that suggested its source was the sea.

Her work also suggests, faintly, the ambiguities of Balthus's paintings of sly nymphets.

It also reveals Wolf‐Ferrari as a composer with a sophistication that his popular Intermezzo from the "Jewels of the Madonna" only faintly begins to suggest.

Plasse has captured quiet, often intimate moments a shuttered concession stand; a kid, maybe ten or so, leaving the game, clad in a Jeter tee, his eyes groundward, suggesting, faintly, that he's just witnessed a loss.