Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...responses to it in recent years -- evocations of the rural hill landscapes around his studio in Gaeta -- are formulaic and hark back to Dubuffet and, earlier, to Soutine's Ceret paintings. The phrases he writes on the canvas are place names and snatches of poetry, done in a faint cursive script that is always on the point of trailing off into illegibility; they suggest fatigue and forgetting. But the structure / of the paintings themselves, the placement of the marks on the big field, is energetic and often brilliant...
...listened closely to the movement behind a Quindlen column, one could hear the faint sound of clothing rustling as she reached up and over to pat herself on the back...
Against all odds, health-care reform registered a faint but detectable pulse on Capitol Hill as various alliances of legislators continued to seek some form of compromise. While both positive and negative reports surfaced, there was no official action...
...song Paradise by the Dashboard Light -- than for his great-field, great-bunt playing days. But even then, James persuasively argues, he didn't have the numbers or the earned renown of Pee Wee Reese, a Hall of Famer, or of George Davis and Vern Stephens, who are faint memories...
...first, the faint buzzing blends in with the crisp notes and trills of Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's "Prelude in C Minor." Perhaps the tape is a bad copy, or the stereo is acting up again. Then the distracting noise grows louder, more insistent, until it can no longer be dismissed as a mechanical error. In fact, it is Gould singing along with his own performance as he always did on the stage and in the recording studio. Throughout his search for technical perfection, he hummed along audibly and slightly off-key. In many ways the odd combination...