Word: faintness
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...something goes terribly wrong. More than once, a song is completely drowned out by the production’s twelve-person orchestra, which is situated between the stage and the audience, as is standard in the Agassiz. Much of the blame here must be given to the faint-voiced actors; the orchestra is not exceedingly resonant. Some of the actors are simply unable to vocalize over the instruments, and it is not clear that they could be heard clearly even if the orchestra were not playing at all. The frustrating effect of losing the words to songs cannot be underestimated...
...surprised,” Iftikhar said yesterday when he learned of the commission’s decision. “I had just a very faint hope they would consider what I said...
...about us because they know our names will sell magazines. Just this week, a weekly magazine said it had a huge scoop about Mika -- and it turned out to be a publicity photo of her swinging a golf club at a charity tournament, in which you could see a faint outline of her nipples. Some scoop. Japan is a small country. People can't help but be obsessed with what other people are thinking or doing. The media asks us what we think about things, and so we answer -- and the public thinks it's marvelous and strange that...
...response to these atrocities was meager, if it existed at all. And the probability of the U.S. responding to similar events in the future seems faint and unlikely. For we remember that the Taliban—which now must be destroyed to bring peace to the world and dignity to the suffering people of Afghanistan—was, but a month ago, far from administrators’ minds. We remember that Bush campaigned on an explicit platform of not venturing into foreign lands to spread and protect the values that Americans hold dear...
...against representations of living things. Then we climbed into a Toyota pickup mounted with large-caliber machine guns for the ride to Bamiyan. All that remained of the 50-m and 36-m Buddhas, which for a millennium-and-a-half gazed out at armies, merchants and pilgrims, were faint outlines. Our escorts, delighted with their work, shot into the empty cavern where the smaller, supposedly female statue once stood. Then they presented us with the ultimate souvenir of Afghanistan's newest attraction: pieces of broken rock from the Buddhas, along with some shells of the ammunition used to destroy...