Word: hinting
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...workers had found new and revealing traces of our early roots at the site of that ancient African spa: the actual footprints of one of those man-apes. Radioactive dating showed that the prints had been made some 3.59 million to 3.75 million years ago, a hint the creature may be the oldest-known direct ancestor...
...place of the sculpted saint perched atop the coffin. And if that does not constitute laying it on with a trowel, consider this: before settling down to the business of lovemaking, a young man persuades his partner to smoke his cigar with the ash end in her mouth. A hint of things to come, perhaps...
McLaughlin's boys took the floor for the second-half warm-up looking like a bunch of first-year med students after their first autopsy--there was not the slightest hint of a smile on anyone's face, the probable result of some locker-room fireworks...
...occasionally finds time for his hobby of collecting Victorian antiques, but he has virtually given up racquetball, allowing his weight to slide up another 20 Ibs., to 220. To enhance his national image, he has hired Washington Political Consultants Douglas Bailey and John Deardourff, and his critics darkly hint that even the Thompson baby due this summer was programmed for maximum political effect. For the record, Thompson refuses to discuss the presidency. Almost. He says it would be "foolish" for him to rule...
Except, of course, that there never was a real Heathcliff. The power of great fic tion makes such facts unimportant, and both L'Estrange and Caine have paid trib ute to that power. The trouble is that both writers hint of further tributes to come. Pinnacle does more than hint; it promises "additional volumes chronicling the lives and loves of the descendants of Heathcliff and Catherine." The prospect of some nine generations of Heathcliffs yet to come is horrifying, and not in a way Emily Brontë would admire. A Heathcliff in the factory, another in the trenches...