The delicate pencil markings have become faint, but, in their faintness, Webb's exacting geometry and manipulation of formal representational elements radiate.
In this latter case, she must also be vigilant not to damn you with faint praise or praise you with faint damns or... well, she must just avoid faintness altogether and speak in a clear, strong voice.
Another time, when his coachman was suddenly overcome with faintness and an attack of blindness, Pepys hastily took another coach, but "with a sad heart for the poor man".
On the assumption (first adopted by the Dutch mathematician and scientist Christiaan Huygens) that faintness is a statistical measure of distance, they inferred the enormous average separations of stars.
This syncope may be used diagnostically, since faintness upon massage of one carotid sinus may suggest a narrowed carotid or basilar artery on the opposite side of the neck.
In 1917 Curtis also found three novae on his photographs of spirals; the faintness of these novae implied that the spirals were at great distances from the Milky Way.
Before Galileo Galilei's use of telescopes for astronomy in 1609, all observations were made by naked eye, with corresponding limits on the faintness and degree of detail that could be seen.
But as her vision began to fail, I became her eyes to inspect the faintness of the mint marks on the old weather-worn coins.
The radial velocities of the rest are not known, either because of faintness or because of problems resulting from the nature of their spectrum.
Damage to the sympathetic or parasympathetic pathways in the hypothalamus or brainstem may produce similar symptoms for example, faintness due to disordered regulation of blood pressure and heart rate, disturbances of bladder and bowel control, impotence, and impaired visual accommodation.
The chief symptoms of tachycardia are fatigue, faintness, dizziness, shortness of breath, and a sensation of thumping or palpitation in the chest.
