Subsequent observations with an infra-red telescope, which can see things that are too cool to shine with visible light, showed that it was a very faint star so faint that it is off the bottom of astronomers' scale of stellar classification.
Many others, however, dismiss the compact with so much faint praise.
Mr Bush's listless response to Katrina revealed a president who was out of touch a man so surrounded by sycophants and faint-hearts that he didn't learn that New Orleans was sinking until it was too late.
I'm going to talk for a while. (Laughter.) You guys don't sit down because you don't have chairs. (Laughter.) But you guys all have to bend your knees a little bit so you don't faint.
The book is rife with stoically related medical detail so vivid as to make the faint-hearted squirm.
In those eight weeks the administrator will be working 18-hour days so it is not for the faint hearted.
But in the darkened chapel it was so silent he could hear the faint sweet sibilance as knuckling flames consumed the wicks of the votive candles.
Dr. Friedman surveyed the room, clearly attempting to make eye contact with the closest suspect, though unfortunately that suspect was Janey Filch, wall-eyed and so shy she looked ready to faint.
Pure white stretching so far into the distance that its horizon revealed a faint curve of the Earth.
It made a faint whine as it pulled away, delivering power so smoothly that it might as well have been gliding through interstellar space.
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The other objects were either too faint or blended with their neighbours or affected by other artefacts, so that accurate measurements were not possible.
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