The phrase "remote hint" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a subtle suggestion or reference that is not explicitly stated. For example, "The professor's comments seemed like a remote hint that he wanted us to consider a different point of view."
For military officers, Vietnam became a nightmarish memory of body bags, humiliation and division, until any mission that carried even the remotest hint of "another Vietnam" encountered instinctive resistance.
"It contains absolutely no humility or even the remotest hint of responsibility that he himself might have ensured the situation we have just gone through could have been avoided.
Yet my father had written the essay in praise of Atatürk in his high-school yearbook, his sisters were pro-choice, none of the women in his family wore head scarves except to do housework, and I had never heard any of them express the remotest hint of nostalgia for the Ottoman past.
section on gender inclusiveness, it notes (with much boldface type): Nowhere in the updated NIV® (nor in the TNIV®, nor in any of the committee discussions leading up to either version) is there even the remotest hint of any inclusive language for God.
The flushers around me look healthy, too, and most are in their 40s and 50s, which is encouraging - no sign of any of them having contracted Weil's disease, or leptospiral jaundice, through contact with rats; nor the remotest hint of them being drawn to this line of work through coprophilia or nostalgie de la boue.
The remotest hint of liver or heart toxicity in just a few patients among thousands is enough to send a drug back for several more years of testing.
Porta seeks to avoid all religious topics, as well as even the remotest hint of ceremonial magic; other than in the third book of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim's (1486 1535) De occulta Philosophia, for instance, there are no instructions for prayers, fasting, or invocations (Klaassen 2013).
Coke turned down a request from Taepung Group (via Schulze) to visit this summer, and distanced itself from the remotest hint of soft-drink summitry with this statement: "No representative of the Coca-Cola Co. has been in discussions or explored opening up business in North Korea".
And, if the shutdown goes forward however briefly, the remotest hint of any act labeled "domestic terrorism," however implausibly, will be the responsibility of the Republican circus.
