11.   He speaks in a whispery voice that offers tantalizing hints of his onetime verbal dexterity.

12.   Inside, the soaring walls of rock dance with swirls of color, with the first tantalizing hints of ancient gods and men somewhere farther in.

13.   Nunn makes evocative use of the tantalizing hints of the outside world, like the voices and music from an excursion boat that passes the island prison.

14.   One tantalizing hint about the scope of the steroid abuse has come from the San Diego Padres.

15.   Preliminary results from the flight contained tantalizing hints, but they were disappointingly ambiguous.

16.   Recent data on unemployment claims and factory production have offered tantalizing hints that the recession is almost over.

17.   Tantalizing hints about its sleeping brain have emerged from a study conducted by American and Australian scientists.

18.   The fine lines of the newspaper, far from distracting, lend a delicate texture to the work, a sort of tantalizing hint in its background.

19.   The people he reached out to first offered a tantalizing hint of the kind of chief executive he might be.

20.   The secretary of state is as yet unnamed, but Bush has given tantalizing hints.