Mr. Fadl floated a suggestion: If the Americans found another informer, could that witness testify in his place?
La Russa, the Cardinals' manager, floated a suggestion about Bonds's discipline at the plate that seemed designed to induce Bonds to abandon that discipline.
Here, Abby is pretty and feminine, especially when freshly slaked, and Owen is a man in the making, spying on a half-naked woman across the way, although Reeves, who tends to nudge his audience where Alfredson liked to float a worrying suggestion, has a bully at Owen's school taunt him with the words "Are you scared, little girl?" From here, revenge kicks in, with Abby urging Owen to strike back.
Quite apart from whatever he privately thought, it would have been suicidal to float such a suggestion onstage.
But with no answers on hand, Robin Sorensen, the chairman, floated an unconventional suggestion: Why not give the local marketing dollars back to the stores?
I wish to argue — or should say, this being an essay, float the suggestion — that something other than either coincidence or appropriation is going on in James's use of the word as a title.
Their musicmaking is private, delicate and fresh, but by its very intimacy and importance it seizes attention, just as in speech a floated suggestion or a quiet confession may strike far more deeply than a resolute pronouncement.
"Woods could be setting up a season for the ages," announced ESPN, the country's biggest and most influential sports network, before going on to float the suggestion of him winning all four majors in one season, the so-called grand slam.
We think it is fair, we think it is right, and we made a suggestion about how you initially do that; we floated a threshold, a million, and we floated a rate, 0.5%.
Had he believed he could float out the suggestion of a deadly diagnosis without inciting her need to know more?
As they float above the company, a suggestion of Agnes's own departure, the picture has the feel of melancholy closure.
