And though there is only a hint of smile in his photographs, it hints at what Lincoln knew too well: that, as Mark Twain pointed out, "the secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow".
It hints at what may be a disturbed (one is tempted to say diseased) concept of sexuality in the mind of the father who thinks his little girl should be covered up.
(As an alternative, you can scan a code on the book's shelf placard with an Amazon app on your phone; that brings up the book's page, with its current price, on the Amazon site). The process is cumbersome, but it hints at what is probably another of the store's goals: to promote the Prime program, which is central to Amazon's strategy of locking in customers.
True, the euphemism "by-products" can hide a lot of unappetizing stuff, but at least it hints at what the meatpackers don't want us to know.
Still, it hints at what a Pandora's box the development of nuclear weapons has been for over six decades.
If it's aged, wine takes on a slight brownish, oxidized cast, and if it's deeply hued or opaque it hints at what sort of grapes it was made from.
Viagra ads, by contrast, have tended to dance around the topic, assuming viewers know what it does and hinting at the result in terms of the expectant happiness of the newly diagnosed who have been prescribed the pill.
While that amount was less than 4percentt of the $34 million raised by the Red Cross during the crisis, it hinted at what many see as the potential for electronic fund-raising.
However, it hinted at what the band was preparing for their 2005 full-length, The Forsaken.
That would require something more like what Mr Coburn hints at: a recognition that "every nation eventually adopts the foreign policy it can afford".
SPSS helped ClearCommerce to build a system that looks at a customer's past transactions and learns what hints at fraud it might be the amount of money being spent, the shipping details and the time of day, and so on.
