Word: faintness
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...faint aroma of performing seals...
...eyed, I looked for means of escape. I clawed at the door like the dog I was and suddenly found myself chained with nary a stitch but my Mr. Slim plaid boxers to keep her from discovering my religion. A wild fire crossed her face, singeing her moustache. Faint moisture glistened on her quivering upper lip and she swung toward...
Since the setting is a splendid antebellum mansion, it lacks that faint, haunting perfume of defeat that ought always to cling to a work of Tennessee Williams. But perhaps the Deep South is not ante-or postbellum any more. T.E. Kalem
...faint possibility that Christmas buying will spark a business revival is about the last reason that Carter's advisers see for hesitating on a tax cut. Indeed some, including his chief economic adviser, Lawrence R. Klein, urged Carter to call for a reduction late in his campaign. Others successfully opposed the idea on two grounds: 1) such a plea might look like an attempt to buy votes and backfire politically; 2) it seemed possible at the time that federal spending, which fell $11 billion below target levels in the first nine months of 1976, might surge about that much...
...matter-of-fact presentation in Speedboat enhances the humor and incongruity of these episodes. It also heightens our sense of grotesqueness. Nothing turns out as expected, a fact that may make us laugh, but the sort of laugh that trails off into a faint feeling of seasickness. For all its humor, Speedboat is ultimately saddening. Adler evokes a feeling of frustration with a reality that appears only as a series of bright but impenetrable surfaces...