Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first floor it resembles the great hall of a medieval castle, and on the second floor there is a trophy room that looks like the grand council chamber in a movie version of Hamlet. The only thing which gives Payne-Whitney away as a place of athletics is the faint odor of perspiration which pervades the whole place...
...Faint Click. One quiet, unseasonably hot afternoon last week, a burly White House cop named Donald Birdzell was reacting like a bear in a zoo to the rigors of boredom and the demands of duty. He paced. Then he stood before the Blair House steps, got his weight back on his heels and stared solemnly toward the street. As he did so a sound-a faint, metallic click-disturbed him. He turned his head...
...Henry Tapper: "Someone woke me up and asked me if I could hear horses on the gallop. I couldn't hear anything, but then bugles started playing, far away." Pfc. William O'Rama, who was sitting in a machine-gun emplacement, heard the bugles, too-"very faint like...
...longtime friend as she sat gently stroking the parchment skin on his still defiantly bearded white head, "I want to sleep, to sleep." These quiet words were among the last that voluble Bernard Shaw was heard to speak. When the end came, Shaw met it with a faint quizzical smile that might have been construed as satisfied...
Reviewing the show, the influential Paris weekly, Les Arts, guessed that "A hundred years from now, Gromaire will be considered one of the most representative painters of our period." That was faint praise, yet fair enough. Gromaire's art says little that has not been better expressed by older School-of-Paris artists-among them his two favorites, Bonnard and Matisse. But in a field crammed with slapdash imitations of the masters, Gromaire's paintings have an honest, craftsmanlike, and sometimes compelling ring...