All this time, however, we are loitering faintheartedly on the threshold of our story.

And off he started very faintheartedly, and no wonder.

Soon there were six of them in a ragged lineup, faintheartedly shuffling and chanting on command.

Across the region yesterday, people paid spirited or sheepish homage to a year gone by and set their chins firmly, or faintheartedly, in the direction of the year to come.

The Alydar colt, a national hero after winning the Kentucky Derby and Preakness this spring, has since been faintheartedly campaigned under a cloud of confusion surrounding his need for medication.

One of the things I faintheartedly consoled myself with was the thought that when-when, I always said firmly-I got out I'd be closer to the consumers than any ad man in the profession.

Only two Justices, Thomas and Scalia, have built their jurisprudence around originalism (one of them faintheartedly), so its full adoption would require the trashing of dozens, if not hundreds, of Court precedents.