Eurocrats in Brussels are only faintly aware of living in a paralysed country.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Mass production of such jerseys, often only faintly resembling anything made on the island, depresses the price of the genuine articles.

ECONOMIST: Knitwear

The traffic of the city was a hum that only faintly reached these leisurely streets, the occasional distant shriek of a police siren or an ambulance more urgently disturbing their peace.

NEWYORKER: Bravado

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

WSJ: Review: Tom Hanks shines in messy 'Lucky Guy'

Mr Samper's beacon of peace flickers only faintly.

ECONOMIST: Colombia

After the impostress fell asleep (the dog in her arms, their breathing synchronous) I found myself searching through Rema's pale blue purse that smelled only very faintly of dog.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Atmospheric Disturbances'

But S U-Z, smiling faintly, only reached down and wedged it between the lips of the prisoner.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Legends'

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.

ECONOMIST: John Gross | The

His pleas are faintly ironic given that the pact's original German authors added the word growth to its title only on the insistence of the French.

ECONOMIST: Deficits and defiance