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Faintest in sentence

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And if they are, I can imagine them as we are, calculating, writing computer code, building instruments, trying to detect that faintest sound of their origins and wondering who else is out there.
I have been basically spending the last few years documenting the efforts of some extremely intrepid men and women who are putting, literally at times, their lives at stake working in some very remote and very hostile places so that they may gather the faintest signals from the cosmos in order for us to understand this universe.
This is almost 2012, and saying to the world, "I am totally, completely competent," is damning yourself with the faintest of praise.
FIREBall is designed to observe some of the faintest structures known: huge clouds of hydrogen gas.
So this means we need to be concerned about anybody who has the faintest shot on goal, not just geniuses.
When I hear even a hint of idealizing or the faintest whiff of nostalgia in a session, I go, "Phone, please."
There is not the slightest hint of what she might be like WITHOUT depression... not the faintest glimmer of any other aspects of her personality... she just screams.
I'm all for slapstick ridiculousness, but there isn't even the faintest hint of wit or cleverness.
Without wanting to sound superior or arrogant, I think to fully understand this film; the humor, the sincerity, the characters, etc....you have to be Australian, or at least understand the culture, which the other guy obviously didn't have the faintest clue about.
First of all I wouldn't bother spelling the title because for 1 thing I don't actually know how to spell it; "Surburben Girl?" and for another I haven't got the faintest idea of what is actually means!?
Made in the early 80's when the 70's car chase genre was winding down, chockablock with copious footage lifted from such previous Roger Corman-backed drive-in flicks as "Grand Theft Auto," "Moving Violation," "Eat My Dust!," and "Thunder and Lightening," coasting on the faintest sliver of a one-note story, and, just like the numerous car chases showcased herein, running around in endless circles with no particular purpose or destination in mind, this energetically stupid comedic romp was harshly panned by critics and generally dismissed as an absolute turkey.
The effects are terrible and the attempt at humor doesn't pan out how it was probably intended... Except for the arrogant, bald, and highly disparaging theater manager who never utters the faintest resemblance of a kind word through the entire movie.
How Harry and the others will even know what to look for in the next movie I haven't the faintest idea.
This film is an intelligent sci-fi murder mystery with a twist... we know who the victim is, we know who the killer is but neither we nor the killer have the faintest idea why the killing will take place.
Anyone with the faintest idea of Kaliningrad's fate will know that the region has not - to say the least - been blessed over the last 55 years.
“All I lose is an indefinite number of years of being a vegetable in a hospital setting, eating up the country’s money but having not the faintest idea of who I am.”
So, if the exit is small, even the faintest whiff of smoke can trigger a stampede.
I said that I hadn’t the faintest idea.
This is just talk: Tony Blair has not the faintest idea about what the center of Europe means.
The international order forged in the fires of the twentieth century seems to be disappearing, and we have not had even the faintest glimpse of what will replace it.
Although very few people have the faintest idea about what GDP is or even what the acronym stands for, it is a single number that has gained the entrenched status that comes from long and frequent use.
Covered with heavy clouds, the stormy sky gave only the faintest light to the ocean's upper strata.
And thus she seemed so virtuous and inaccessible to him that he lost all hope, even the faintest.
Madame de Renal, the wealthy heiress of a religious aunt, married at sixteen to a worthy gentleman, had never in her life felt or seen anything that bore the faintest resemblance to love.
He was trying his best to keep the old man from getting the faintest hint of who the Spaniard might be, and yet his tongue seemed determined to get him into trouble in spite of all he could do.
There was a sound like the faintest, far-off shout.
Enthusiastic as we are in the noble cause to which we have devoted ourselves, we should have felt a sensation of pride which we cannot express, and a consciousness of having done something to merit immortality of which we are now deprived, could we have laid the faintest outline on these addresses before our ardent readers.
Mr. Grummer passed, and Mr. Dubbley passed, and the sedan passed, and the bodyguard of specials passed, and Sam was still responding to the enthusiastic cheers of the mob, and waving his hat about as if he were in the very last extreme of the wildest joy (though, of course, he had not the faintest idea of the matter in hand), when he was suddenly stopped by the unexpected appearance of Mr. Winkle and Mr. Snodgrass.
A gentleman with money, as could never feel the expense of a wife, no more than nothing,' continued Mrs. Cluppins, with great volubility; 'why there ain't the faintest shade of an excuse for his behaviour!
Not the faintest rustle broke the profound tranquillity of the solemn scene.