An actual entity with this absolute narrowness has an ideal faintness of satisfaction, differing from the ideal zero of chaos, but equally impossible. (religion-online.org)
When I know the past at all it seems to me that there are the same distinctions of clarity and faintness in it as in my knowledge of the present. (religion-online.org)
Most poignantly, in her report on her firsthand experience with systemic poverty, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich makes us see «poverty as acute distress: The lunch that consists of Doritos or hot dog rolls, leading to faintness before the end of the shift. (religion-online.org)