And yet, talking to him, you can hear a hint of excitement, something rising.
To me, a pub menu in 2018 should contain precisely that hint of excitement.
"That's Ben," his wife said, a hint of excitement in her voice.
The arroz con pollo -- combining chicken breast with tomato-accented rice (not the menu-mentioned saffron rice) -- was bland, lacking even a hint of excitement.
But Mr. Walder was emphatic when discussing the prospect of a revised fare structure, noting with a hint of excitement that "you can see creative and innovative things that would happen with this".
Everyone up here seems to be in a tearing hurry all the time, though probably the rush is merely to watch another five minutes of television or, in the case of the young, to bring a hint of excitement into drab lives.
There may be some of you – maybe stuck at your parents' house, or in bed with an illness that would kill you if your nervous system registers even the slightest hint of excitement – who will be forced to watch Doctor Thorne under duress.
And so with that, being a good mother, she agreed with some reluctance, but as we wrapped up our conversation I could detect a hint of excitement in her tone; an eagerness to tackle a new task.
There's no hint of excitement or danger, no sensation that going to a club is actually worth doing when you could sit in and play cards instead, and oddly for a film that's literally all about sex, not even the merest whiff of sexuality the death knell of any decent club.
There is an air of expectancy with just a hint of excitement as Millet walks into the classroom her school, Mothapo High.
