Instead, all that is needed is a pregnant hint, carefully repeated, conjoined with looks directed intently ("wistly") toward someone likely to grasp the hint's meaning.
Much of his groundbreaking writing about the history of African-Americans in the United States carried a hint of carefully managed subversion -- of meticulous, even-handed scholarship that pointed to the searing truths of racial injustice.
If he gets the hint, tread carefully: some boys don't like the idea of some random girl buying them a gift (then again, you're not a random girl anymore if you already know him).
But "Mimesis" was more than an imaginary museum, as Auerbach himself hinted when he carefully noted that it was written between May , 1942 and April , 1945 as the smoke was rising above Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
I was probably around 18 or 19, when my girlfriend at the time carefully hinted that I should try to get some help.
If you read Hininger's speech carefully, he hints at a long-term corporate strategy that could eventually become even more lucrative than CCA's prison business: The Walmartification of reentry.
It carried a bit of heat and, if one tasted carefully, a hint of tarragon but was otherwise plain.
There was a hint in this of carefully managed subversion — of meticulous, even-handed scholarship that pointed to the searing truths of racial injustice, just as one of Dr. Franklin's great forebears, W. E. B. Du Bois, had done in his classic "Souls of Black Folk".
'I made the last payment, and it was the next day she left.'" Slater is not-too-carefully hinting here that there is a direct connection between the final payment of her loan and her choice to leave her husband, the implication being that she remained with him for his money.
The Fed usually orchestrates its policy moves carefully, with public hints ahead of time.
