I squinted at her, trying to remember what I had wanted to ask, but all I could come up with was a faint little laugh.
Nature waking up after winter, with a faint suggestion of Eastertide (the main holiday in the Eastern Orthodox calendar), is represented in masterly fashion in delicate tones of brown, blue, violet, and gold.
Just as I was picturing a fisherman roaring up in a bass-boat to pitch jig-n-pigs into stick-ups, a silver salmon with a faint blush porpoised, followed by another.
The government apparently hopes to gain access to the fund's low-interest loans and to shed its image of callous corruption that has allowed a generation to grow up with only faint memories of electricity or running water or houses without bullet holes.
I keep pausing, trying to capture a slice of the vista with a camera, knowing that what I will end up with instead is a faint echo of the experience, a reminder rather than a replica.
As I walk past them, I pick up a faint, long tone, off in the distance.
"Could that boy talk," one woman said with a faint, distant smile, gazing up dreamily at a twirling ceiling fan.
To do the job, you need stamina – lockdown started three hours before the awards – a working knowledge of current celebrities, and the ability to come up with a question that will spark the faintest bit of interest from nominees who have spent months answering other dumb questions.
So far, it's turned up a small, needly plant that is chewy but sweet with a faint asparagus flavor and a dash of bitterness.
