Outside the clinic, in a "Koala Rehab Centre" faintly perfumed by eucalyptus leaves, is a three-year-old recovering from a hysterectomy.

But he and his associates insist that those won’t be faintly enough to constrain China’s rise.

But this time around Kardashian's voice is a distant lullaby heard faintly against a crackling record and the commotion in the music video.

Hockney's Enchanted Tree Pavilion still smells faintly sweet, as if stampeding children once crushed fallen popcorn into its floor.

From our perch in the driveway, the arm of the combine bobbed faintly like an antenna.