Inky, intimate, idiosyncratic — a good inscription is the bonus in a used book, the plot before the plot, a hint of relationships beyond the ones imagined by the volume's author.
Yet Secrest uses it to focus the reader on Modigliani's giftedness — he did draw and paint truly well, within his range — and, along the way, to drop hints of his relationships with his sitters, models, friends, and lovers, amid the avant-garde in Montmartre and Montparnasse.
It is not uncommon, for example, to see hints of gay relationships in contemporary Shakespeare productions.
As a growing amount of genomic data covering a large fraction of bacterial diversity becomes available, hints of such relationships may be gathered from in silico analyses.
The disciplined writer finds himself incapable of composing a love letter, and when she hints of a relationship with another man, Mehta warns himself, "If I don't watch out, I'm going to play Iago to my own Othello".
Furthermore, this kind of approach returns hints of a relationship statistically significant and completely regardless of the established and/or putative role of target mRNAs in myelopoiesis.
Of course, in order to make specific predictions for how lesions in the grid system would affect place cells, we would need detailed knowledge about the precise relationship between these systems, and while there are many hints of a complex relationship, the details remain unclear.
Many reviews commented on the decision by Davies and the BBC to skirt over many of the sprawling subplots and focus on the romance – including spotlighting the hints of an incestuous relationship between brother and sister Anatole and Hélène Kuragin.
Steve's conversation with poor, broken Joseph Nash was quietly devastating and I enjoyed Jackie's confession – "but I thought you'd go easy on me if I cooperated" – and the tentative hints of a possible relationship between Kate and Dot.
