Sentence examples for faintly worried from inspiring English sources

They would stand there and look faintly worried".

But some of Mr Obama's prescriptions have been faintly worrying.

IT IS always faintly worrying when a trade association calls allegedly crusading legislation a "pragmatic solution".

It is also faintly worrying, and I don't know why.

Faintly worrying pictures are emerging from the set of the new Sherlock Holmes film, directed by Guy Ritchie.

That will be a formidable achievement for a president who was not even directly elected and a faintly worrying comment on Czech democracy.

On this, he appears to be in agreement with the PM, whose home secretary planned to announce something along these faintly worrying lines next week.

Terrence was right; a lot of people look like they might be are constantly engaged in the faintly worrying act of inventing small children, or inventing comments said by children.

If something about a Cowardly Lion costume going up for auction sounds faintly familiar, don't worry that you might have lingered a bit too long in the poppy field; the same costume has gone under the gavel a handful of times over the years, including a 2011 auction organized by Calabasas, Calif.-based Profiles in History at which it failed to meet the minimum asking price.

Many young men these days have no experience in formal dating and feel the need to be faintly ironic about the process — "to 'date' in quotation marks" — because they are "worried that they might offend women by dating in an old-fashioned way," Ms. Rosin said.

Party leaders worry about an attempt by a recently purged Politburo member, Bo Xilai, to boost his popularity by appealing to faintly subversive nostalgia for Mao among the poor.