Word: hinting
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...With a hint of encouragement...
Nonetheless, the new designs themselves were intriguing. One after another, the French designers displayed collections calculated to capture, if not the same bulk of orders from U.S. buyers, at least the fancy of women everywhere. Men might not be so enraptured: hems left not a hint of calf exposed, let alone knee. But the overall look was exotic and eclectic, a mixture of Garbo's Anna Karenina and Clyde's Bonnie, the aura of a Russian princess and the threat of a tommy...
With their profits down, automen hint at some tough demands of their own. G.M. Chairman James Roche has complained vehemently about absenteeism in car plants, wildcat strikes and shoddy quality production. "In the negotiations of 1970," he has said, "unions and management must strive together to achieve regular attendance, eliminate unnecessary work stoppages and cooperate in improving quality...
...none of the facts even hint at the revolution to which Matisse's pictures stand witness. This law student from Le Cateau in the north of France saw the picture plane flat and saw it whole. He began treating it as a design rather than an imaginary view. A pattern in the wallpaper might come forward to take equal authority with a fruitbowl on a table. He saw women as outlines-a grace, a structure of volume, a presence in a landscape-and abandoned nuances of flesh tones in favor of vigor of composition. Perhaps as much as Picasso...
...this aristocratic lady who is fully aware of her ward's virtues and her son's defects. One cannot begin to describe what she can do with a line like. "But I do wash his name out of my blood." In her performance there is not the slightest hint of labored delivery; all the words flow forth with seeming effortlessness, as though blank verse had always been her natural mode of discourse. Not the least impressive part of her playing comes in the long final scene, during which she is almost entirely silent; here she exhibits mastery of what...