Word: hinting
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...opposite of defiantly shabby. The world of her books, including Off the Shelf and Modern Classics, and of an eponymous magazine--which has achieved cult status among U.S. foodies despite being so out of season with the northern hemisphere--is more minimal than Martha's. But any hint of unpalatable perfection is punctured by the Aussie herself, whose longtime companion, Bill Wilson, is the local butcher...
...language that has distinguished his rhetoric about Iran and Iraq in the past. More on the Axis of Evil won’t help us, and it certainly won’t help Iran’s reformists. In this case, we hope that the president will take a hint from his own campaign plank in 2000—that the United States should be proud, yet humble...
...Good luck, coach. We live in a time and a culture in which vulgarity is so ubiquitous that the word has ceased to carry any hint of opprobrium, and where the concept of civility seems as dated as Ciceronian oratory. Cultural historian Jacques Barzun wrote recently that a 300-year-old "code of civilized manners" came to an end "about halfway into the 20th century." I'd argue that Barzun's dating is off by a couple of decades-otherwise my yellowed copy of a 1967 Playboy would be a lot smuttier than it is-but it's hard...
...hint from Powell that all of this may have been the product of errant "political calculus" won't do much for the administration's credibility. Indeed, leading lights of the foreign policy establishment have warned that fixing the credibility gap left by the failure to find WMD in Iraq is a matter of urgency. A charitable view of Powell's comments might be that he is seeking to heal the rift with Europe - the Europeans are hardly going to be convinced by Vice President Cheney's plea for moving on at the same time as insisting that the Iraq invasion...
...other wing tip would drop in what seems to be a corporate system with blind spots. Sure enough, seven top officials at software firm Finmatica are now under investigation for alleged market rigging and obstruction; founder Pierluigi Crudele faced his first round of questioning last Friday. He took the hint: no victory sign. It Ain't No Slow Worm MyDoom became the fastest-spreading computer virus ever, generating 30% of e-mail traffic across more than 200 countries. The virus is estimated to have cost the global economy more than $25 billion...