Word: hinting
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Comedy indicates a "different temperament" from tragedy, Bentley said. "It prefers only to hint at the serious side," while tragedy confronts pain directly, "taking terror by the hand." Comedy "veils its feelings with eloquencies, while tragedy is a "long lament...
...tried, perhaps not very efficiently, to secure a freshman class that was well-balanced geographically and socially; we took deliberate risks on young women whose preparation had been inadequate but in whose record there was a compelling hint of strength; and we admitted a considerable number with only middling academic records when we were persuaded that these students might thirty years hence be outstanding women in their homes and in their communities. These problems have caused us to face issues which lie at the very heart of the educational process and we hope during the coming year to study...
...news item that plainly indicated the people's choice: a city-wide sampling of registered Democratic voters showed that 88% would not support him should he run for re-election next November. Far from loosing thunderbolts of denunciation when newsmen asked for comment, Wagner dropped a yard-wide hint that he is ready to run for the exit if tapped for a job by the Kennedy Administration. "Being mayor." said Wagner, "is quite a drain on your health...
...objection: Smith's one venture into diplomacy was as Dwight Eisenhower's ambassador to Batista's Cuba; his appointment would embarrass the Swiss in carrying out their neutral chore of representing the ambassador-less U.S. in Castro's Cuba. Republican Smith at last got the hint, gracefully withdrew his name...
...obvious question was: Is it pornography or literature? A little of both, perhaps. What gives it distinction is the author's astuteness in observing a human crisis, his grave, almost solemn tone, and his simple, carefully considered prose. Author Tanizaki has created his effect without employing even a hint of the D. H. Lawrence vocabulary...