Sentences with phrase «only faint»

It may have a slight touch of the Jetsons, but it is only a faint hint.

Years of mild winters on the West Coast have left many Americans with only faint memories of the hardships inclement weather can bring.

The only faint hope one might have that the Harper government would consider changes of the sort Mayrand proposes to the Act is a deeply concerned and aroused Canadian public.

There were signs they'd escaped before (evidence of past abrupt changes), but only faint scratching could be heard now.

It seems like the only faint hope to hang onto, to this lurker.

In the latter these painted grounds offer a great deal of information, and create a flatter plane where the stage beneath consumes the marks and shapes above, only their faint traces visible.

From the audience — and this was a mild surprise — there arose only faint murmurs of disagreement.

Eventually, it ended up spreading only the faint light of a sunset.

The emerging technology of television, which had been only a faint crackle of static when Armstrong started his work, now threatened to drown him out.

In The Making of Home, Flanders traces the evolution of the house from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century across northern Europe and America, showing how the homes we know today bear only a faint resemblance to homes though history.

With the engine running and the hood open, only a faint clicking sound from the eight computer - controlled fuel injectors and a breeze from the engine fan are detectable.

Mechanical refinement is superb with only a faint growl of exhaust on part throttle,

WHEELS, TYRES & BRAKES The standard 14in steel wheels wear the original Volvo hubcaps which are in superb condition with no kerb damage and only faint markings.

Only a faint level of road noise enters the cabin, becoming more obvious over coarse - chip bitumen.

WHEELS, TYRES & BRAKES The factory fitted 15» alloy wheels remain in excellent condition with only faint markings.

Audi claims the e-tron will hit 83mph in electric mode, which we can vouch for, and acceleration around town is brisk enough, with only a faint whine from the motor.

The opening shot of the new polished compressor is accompanied by a typical supercharger whine, with only the faint sound of angry V8 exhaust noise in the background it sounds decidedly eerie.

Only the faint whistle that overlays the V - 8's rich voice betrays its turbochargers.

But nothing compares to the work done on this disc; only a faint flicker (which in and of itself has pleasingly nostalgic tones) stands out from an otherwise pristine disc.

Though The Disaster Artist is nominally an adaption of the same - titled book by Wiseau's former roommate and co-star Greg Sestero and the critic and journalist Tom Bissell, the movie bears only faint traces of its characterization of the secretive, self - made filmmaker; the exclusion of any biographical details (many of which are now public knowledge) leaves yawning gaps in the script, which was written by the duo of Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (500 Days Of Summer, The Spectacular Now, The Fault In Ours Stars, etc.).

James is the classic definition of a fuck - up from the looks of it: young, aimless, and with only a faint idea of what he wants to pursue.

She's a total shrew, angry and withholding, yet only a faint exaggeration of a type found in life.

Anyone who knows the work of Viramontes will recognise elements of it, but only faint ones, the link being between the deceased fashion illustrator's famous red - and - black drawing of an abstract line of models for Halston in 1958.

They were big, fresh, lively, beautiful, sweetly aromatic — just so nice (nothing like the store - bought varieties, which are so dried up and small, with only a faint lingering smell of fennel).

Only a faint smudge is visible.

The most likely explanations involve radiation or outflows from an active galactic nucleus (AGN) that is strongly obscured by dust so that only a faint source can be seen associated with the nebula.

But astronomical phenomena — such as solar flares or auroras — at best leave only faint environmental traces lacking in specificity.

Given this very close arrangement, astronomers are intrigued by the galaxies» apparent lack of any significant gravitational interaction; only a faint bridge of neutral hydrogen gas — not visible in this image — appears to stretch between them.

Chelsea's only faint hope of resurrecting their own bid for Lukaku rests on whether or not the player is willing to veto his move to United in favour of holding out for his old employers.

It is only a faint light as yet but it does give the Gunners something to strive for in the remaining three games other than fending off the top four challenge of Manchester United.

Princeton, only a faint threat for the championship in early February, clawed Columbia 90 - 59 and Cornell 83 - 73 to lead Dartmouth home in the Ivy League.

Use 1/4 teaspoon of the shichimi togarashi if you want only a faint trace of heat in the cheese.

Now only faint sighs and the sound of Wetnaps being released from foil packages mar the otherwise silent room.

There are plenty of such excellent statements — formulated largely by ministers and adopted by the denominations, the Federal Council, and the World Council of Churches — to which we have as yet only faint approximations in the political and social life of the rank and file of church members.

Despite common ancestry in an American religious movement which knew itself as the «Reformation of the 19th century,» the Churches of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) today exhibit only faint family resemblances.

Having a personal relationship with Jesus was only a faint suggestion of a thought.

Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me.

Two decades ago, when NAFTA was born, China had only a faint presence in the global economy, and was not yet even a member of the World Trade Organization.

Outfits betray only a faint preference for earth tones.

For all their real troubles, they have only the faintest idea of how on their own they really are.

One so thoroughly wiped out by a comet strike around 12,000 years ago that nearly all evidence of its existence vanished, leaving only the faintest of traces, including, Hancock thinks, a cryptic warning that such a celestial catastrophe could happen to us.

On the surface only the faintest impression — as thin as a shoelace — trickles across our snowmobile tracks.

So the search for the oldest living stars is the search for those with only the faintest of impurities, usually expressed as the ratio of iron to hydrogen.

These products are crude, imprecise and sometimes frustratingly nonresponsive — that's how it goes with EEG - based headsets, which pick up only the faintest electroencephalographic echoes of neural activity through the skull.

Excellent, vintage condition with only the faintest wear.

Because The Beyond is such a transparent excuse for the depiction of gore, it caused me to think hard about the act of watching cinematic bloodletting, about what it might mean for viewers to perceive terrorized characters as only the faintest representations of human beings in misery.

There's only the faintest support from the extra speakers, but that doesn't take away from what is an otherwise wholly acceptable presentation.

Instead, the Boxster gives off only the faintest whiff of understeer in what is quite possibly the industry's most neutral - handling car.

The hybrid's acceleration and brake feel bear only the faintest resemblance to what you experience in the V - 6 car.

By modulating the flow along the chosen trajectory, torque vectoring actively helps to set up the car for maximum grip, minimum understeer, and only the faintest trace of exit oversteer.