Sentence examples for if faintly from inspiring English sources

And his songs can have a way of feeling instantly, if faintly, familiar".

Engaging, if faintly intimidating, as this may be for me, it is even better for Sri Lanka.

All of them display the same impressive, if faintly unnerving ability to come up with melodies that sound instantly familiar.

If reports are to be believed, you, Ms Brooks, are set fair for a triumphant – if faintly controversial – return to what is now News UK.

It is a watchable if faintly baffling movie, never anything other than well acted, conspicuously without allegiance to any conventional three-act screenplay structure.

He is not the only benevolent, if faintly alarming elderly man in her fiction; fathers, by contrast, tend to be shadowy or absent.

In 1923, D. H. Lawrence published his idiosyncratic, if not faintly crazy, "Studies in Classic American Literature".

Haydn's middle symphonies derive from music like this, which may also touch, if only faintly, post-World War II musical sadists like Bernd Alois Zimmermann.

Patiently discussing her burgeoning acting career, she looks relieved, if not faintly exasperated, when finally asked what role her far-more-famous twin sisters, Mary-Kate and Ashley, have played in her life thus far.

"The voice of the West is going to be heard if only faintly," said Mr. Leavitt, a strong Bush supporter, arguing that victories by Mr. Bush would increase his momentum going into the Southern primaries next week.

Even her acceptance of the Oscar identifying her as the best actress of 1971 – for her performance as a call girl in Klute – seems to be thought funny by some, if not faintly discreditable.