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  • George Lucas took the hinted-at mythical, ancient yet futuristic realm of his first films and filled in all the detail like a tedious nerd.

    JK Rowling should remember that less means more in the Potterverse | David Mitchell 2011

  • However, despite her obvious talents, Wilde's character hasn't clicked with everyone, so this homecoming — along with the drama her hinted-at new position will cause at the hospital — may not be a cause for cheers across the medical board.

    Watercooler: House's Wilde Return 2011

  • As I've said earlier, this thing only cost about $100 million, so if Warner Bros can keep the sequel at a similar price tag, and bag a major star to play the oh-so-subtly hinted-at next villain, there's no reason this can't be a franchise.

    Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Weekend Box Office in Review: Avatar Crosses $400 Million U.S. 2010

  • Untitled (Black Street) is as monochrome and ominous as the name suggests; elsewhere his figures seem stranded in a world of abstract shapes, hinted-at landscapes painted in muted colours and semi-tones.

    Newspeak: British Art Now 2010

  • My hunch is that it will not bear up to repeat viewings as well as the first thanks to the lack of focus on the characters and some of the hinted-at plot holes but it is still one of the better action-horror pictures of recent years.

    GreenCine Daily: 28 Weeks Later. 2007

  • It was here, where calf, streamlined and accurate as the dipping curve of a bird's wing, met unassuming thigh, by way of that dark balled space of hinted-at bone, that I rested my case for intoxication.

    Being with Thin Girls 2009

  • It was here, where calf, streamlined and accurate as the dipping curve of a bird's wing, met unassuming thigh, by way of that dark balled space of hinted-at bone, that I rested my case for intoxication.

    Being with Thin Girls 2009

  • I think Rowling will go into more detail about the deaths of favorite characters in her hinted-at Encyclopedia of Potter.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Harry Potter and the Narrative Charnel House 2007

  • Niki Evans – a woman with the uncanny ability to turn every situation into a depressing anecdote about either her dead father or a hinted-at eating disorder.

    X Factor Betting Odds: The Inevitable Christmas Number One 2007

  • Strauss proudly believed in writing at two levels, the "exoteric", which itself would be the layer which contained his own lies, while the deeper truths were to be gleaned by not ignoring any single hinted-at interruption.

    Conservatives Lie 2007

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