Sentence examples for rather faint from inspiring English sources

The sound is rather faint - like a man slapping his thigh with a folded newspaper.

Tharon Musser's original lighting design, adapted by Julie Duro, looks rather faint in color and not as intense as it might be.

Cynics predicted that Velvet Revolver's alliance of battered ex-junkies - in Weiland's case, the "ex" part is in rather faint lettering - would disintegrate before it left the runway.

You can blame everything on the reorganisation.David Pugh Bergen, NorwayElection briefingSIR – It is wrong to suggest that if Aung San Suu Kyi is freed from detention (a rather faint possibility) she will be able to contest next year's election in Myanmar ("Re-engagement rings", October 3rd).

That meant it did not preserve as well and so was overlooked for many years until investigations with UV light showed that one was present, albeit as a rather faint discolouration and depression on the specimen, but of the right size, shape and position to be a furcula.

On the other hand, the resemblance with the ionosphere characteristics (EIA, PRE) is rather faint (R ≅ 0.37, R ≅ 0.12).

She wanted to feel unconditional love, rather than the faint conditional affection she could scrape together for Duncan every now and again; she wanted to be held by someone who would never question the embrace, the why or the who or the how long.

It is neater, he says, to have organisms that glow brighter, rather than becoming fainter, as the environment becomes more toxic.

And when Ofsted return, the progress should be publicly recognised, rather than damned by faint praise.

Broad beans, when fresh and young, have a delicate, asparagus flavour with a faint glueyness rather like okra.

Yet the odd reviewer here and there reckons this is a perfectly passable summer blockbuster, with excellent special effects and a rousing storyline, though many do rather damn it with faint praise, and no one seems to think it gets anywhere near James Cameron's efforts, 1984's Terminator and 1991's T2.