The animal-rights protest to this activity was almost too faint for anyone but a marketing manager to hear, but faintly is how these issues begin.

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Ephron's humor can be heard, but only faintly.

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This may sound faintly ridiculous, but the finished object looks like a deeply satisfying classical column.

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It feels faintly ridiculous, but it is a break from the chaos for some.

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But the Times notes some faintly absurd moments during her captivity, relayed by Mme Aubenas in a press conference yesterday.

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Not only that, but he would browse the faintly carbolic-smelling columns of the British Medical Journal, and scoff a hundred cow pies with the Dandy's Desperate Dan.

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But it will also strike some as faintly obscene given the scale of public support needed to keep the firm and its peers from buckling last year.

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