The egg is white and shining, and its surface is faintly etched.
The fluid sequence of ideas, a little like someone free-associating on a couch, is at once exhilarating and sometimes faintly implausible.
Interwoven with them is a faintly embarrassing first-person narrative expressing the author's intellectual doubts about whether and why his research is justified.
I have friends who consider the idea faintly shocking.
At the same time, the universalizing, faintly therapy-speak headline claim that 'every culture is a wound culture' sits oddly with the book's scrupulously historicist methodology.
At the same time, the four faces of the clock begin to glow faintly and remain illuminated through the night.
The fine eyes were large, bright, calm, though darkened, faintly wrinkled at the corners.
Nor was it a pose from his life as a global celebrity - the veiled figure waving faintly from limousines, balconies, and departing ambulances.
