Besides the pregnancy and android dramas, and whatever's up with mysterious industrialist Mr. Yasumoto (Hiroyuki Sanada), there are hints of world-altering forces an episode or two away.
After Disney died, in 1966, they also wrote the songs for "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," produced by Albert R. Broccoli, a film, jovial but with a hint of World War II darkness, about the inventor of a flying car.
Nor is there any hint of World War II, which was in progress while the author was in Groton or about to go there; he was grad uated from Princeton in 1950.
A refreshingly ironic shrug — a hint of world-weariness — I thought.
"WHENEVER there's a new government," Hiroshi Saito, president of Mizuho Corporate Bank, part of Japan's second-biggest financial group, says with more than a hint of world-weariness, "it always announces that Tokyo will be the next international financial centre".
Perhaps the religious overtones of Sasquatch talk – the sacrifices and pilgrimages, the hints of another world – ought not be vulgarly read as signs of madness, but understood as a way, in a world alienated from nature, to grasp at sanity.
They also, though, gave the first hints of the world below the surface because their orbits were thrown slightly out of kilter by unexpected features that were dubbed "mascons", or concentrations of mass.The mascons corresponded to several of the lunar maria, which are dark patches of the Moon's surface identified by early astronomers as possible oceans.
But hints of indie-world exhaustion creep through.
This wonderful creature was part of that world, like a small jewel that had fallen off the throne, a hint of a world of beauty beyond his knowledge and reach.
We slept in and awoke to the sound of a tram going by, giving the modern-furnished room at least a hint of old world ambience.
