Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indifference few readers will share. One seeks in vain for some faint sign of hope in Appelfeld's enigmatic parable. Redemption through suffering? Renewal or rebirth? Tzili's baby dies in her womb. The only human being who reaches out a hand to her is a prostitute. As the two women stand side by side on a ship headed for Palestine, the injured adolescent suddenly says to the fallen woman, "What I'd like now is a pear." That is all that is left of desire in Tzili, and even the pear is not forthcoming...
...aviation exhibitions abroad, was found guilty of misappropriating the equivalent of $80,000 in foreign currency. While Laikov was sentenced to 15 years in prison and his property confiscated, his two bosses were sacrificed for neither stopping nor spotting the swindle. Their example serves as a warning that even faint contact with corruption will be punished and that Andropov is a man who acts on his words...
Wasp, though not L 'Engle's first "adult" book, carries all the faint creakiness of a hitherto cloister adult valiantly tackling "the real world." Her multiplicity of competing threads and emotions occasionally betrays her into a line straight out of soap opera ("She did not want the perspicacious doctor to guess that she was fascinated by the attractive young bishop"), but more often it reduces Katherine to a passive, dubious on looked at the complexity. She hardly knows what to think when her old friend, Felix, unexpectedly tells her the spent years cruising the gave bars Greenwich Village or when...
Even some of the nation's deeply depressed basic industries were showing signs of life, although very faint ones since their problems stem as much from foreign competition as from lack of demand. U.S. Steel has rehired 2% of its labor force, but that still leaves only 42% of its workers on the job. "There have been a couple of blips, but we don't see signs as yet that this is a basic recovery," says Spokesman Andy Stursky. In Detroit, auto executives predict that 1983 sales will be 10% higher than those of 1982, which...
...sweetest, saddest fantasies. A girl bumps into some soldiers and sees them as G.I.s, come to take her to America; in fact they are Germans about to slaughter her, and her vision is a dream flash the moment before she dies. Early in the film, the villagers hear a faint but rousing rendition of The Battle Hymn of the Republic and imagine it is the American Army; in fact it is only a phonograph record, but the villagers believe, and one young man, scanning the hills, wipes tears from his eyes as he exclaims, "I see them...