Word: hinting
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...Peters, whose choir-girl voice has a seductive hint of late nights and cigarettes, knows the tunesmith's secret: crafting a good love song. The catchy, uptempo Over Africa sees love as "a force of nature...the power of need." And the passionately elegiac When You Are Old is a declaration of eternal devotion: "When your brave tales have all been told/ I'll ask for them when you are old." In Peters' music every tale is brave, unique, beautiful...
...Stealing Beauty and Heavy serve as cunning showcases for the ingenue by creating a vacuum into which she brings some fresh air. She lacks Alicia Silverstone's knowing perkiness; Tyler carries the hint of emotional exhaustion in her wide eyes, as if she had just wiped away tears or sleep. Yet she has the impact on these films that Murray Kempton said John Lindsay had on the 1965 New York City mayoral campaign: "He is fresh and everyone else is tired...
...example, in some courses, professors and students will blithely speak about the great achievements of the civil rights movement and will claim, without a hint of irony, that heroes like Martin Luther King Jr. pretty much cured white America's racism. Yet, even the long-suffering King (everyone's favorite nonviolent martyr) became increasingly disillusioned and frustrated with America's persistent racism throughout his career and came to believe he had underestimated the hatred in America. Despite the success of the 1960s, America's legacy of white supremacy is still palpable--for example, neighborhoods in this country remain overwhelmingly segregated...
...Archie seems to be the arbitrator, the mediator," says Lee Daniels '71, a preceptor in Expository Writing and an associate of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute who has known Epps well since Daniels' undergraduate years. "The voice is always kind of solicitous and concerned, and yet there is a little hint of the psychiatrist in Archie...
...that it represents the ultimate in cynicism, depending on how forgiving your mood is when you encounter something like Mission: Impossible. But old-fashioned narrative connection, unchic though it may be, is not to be sneezed at. For it is out of those little throwaway scenes where people hint at loves, hates, beliefs, disbeliefs, that connections between audience and movie--what Hollywood's wise old hacks call "rooting interest"--arises...