One imagines that the former New York Times journalist Amy Waldman heard these arguments with a combination of recognition and, perhaps, faint dismay: the general topic of her as yet unpublished first novel, "The Submission," was proving disturbingly prescient.
This species is known from Paleolithic cave paintings, ivory carvings, and clay busts, indicating it had protruding ears, tufted tails, perhaps faint tiger-like stripes, and at least some had a ruff or primitive mane around their necks, possibly indicating males.
Hence, perhaps, the faint trace of nostalgia, another afterimage, delicately implied.
"Welles was a powerful actor, but he wasn't always a great actor," Baldwin said, with, perhaps, a faint nod to his own career.
Perhaps that faint, ringing echo is the signal that it's time for everyone to move on, to change for the better.
"I have no vested interest in this, except perhaps a faint hope that it might give Northumbrian coalmining jobs a new lease of life," he told Bourne.
I wanted to feel something but couldn't, except perhaps a faint tingle, like the one you get when using the touchpad of a laptop for too long, but nothing I could swear to.
(In a way, blame is an inverted form of deference: it implies a faith that the authorities and experts and leaders could be impeccable).There is even, perhaps, a faint trace of magic in the blame syndrome.
In these forays into places where I did not belong, I felt perhaps a faint hint of what my father and my grandparents — as well as Zweig's mother, Ida Brettauer — had experienced after the Anschluss, as the whole city gradually became forbidden to them.
As a heroic duo, Jesse and Chester share DNA with Bill and Ted, Harry and Lloyd, Cheech & Chong – and perhaps a faint trace of Withnail and Marwood, another pair of chemically rattled ne'er-do-wells who could have benefited from adopting some of Jesse and Chester's vim, brio and indefatigable optimism.
Bemusement is not normally an expression you'd expect to find in such circumstances, but there is, perhaps, the faintest glimmer of it on the faces of some of the victims.
