This is soul drained of all lust, all heft, leaving just the (s)lightest traces of feeling.
Directed and designed by the British Tony winner John Doyle with a muted palette (not a trace of purple!) that values sincerity of feeling over showboating theatrics, the staging commendably refuses to stoop to the sentimentality that threatens to overwhelm a plot-heavy scenario at almost every turn.
If no trace of such feeling exists, then no legal regime or non-regime on earth can maintain harmony, in any micro-community or mega-community.
Yet there was not a trace of ill-feeling.
Chances are, if she has even a trace amount of feelings for you, she'll smile and try to stretch the conversation.
When the queen spies Orlando dallying with a commoner, the mirror she shatters reflects a shattered heart, which Mr. Greenspan evokes with a trace of fierce, real feeling.
Yushchenko's government is also leading a drive to have the United Nations declare the famine an act of genocide, seeing it as part of Stalin's continuing effort to destroy any trace of Ukrainian national feeling.
In the false smiles, however, the face reveals traces of unhappy feelings behind the smile - for instance, a slight furrowing of the muscle between the eyebrows - that can be seen apart from the supposed expression of pleasure.
Back in season four, while ailing and lying in bed, Walter called his own biological son "Jesse," and it's clear that traces of those feelings will always be with him.
Traces of such feelings were particularly noticeable in interviews with parents (see Ferriter and Huband, 2003; Moses, 2010), but were certainly not confined to these.
