Meanings of faint hints in English

Twelve months after Kim's death, there are faint hints of change.

The winter passed and faint hints of spring began to steal into the landscape.

The air was thick with age, heavy with must, redolent with faint hints of hauntings.

Looking closer, I could see faint hints of color in the cloth, which wasn't actually black.

Language is weak; only faint hints and general intimations could be given of the "glory which is to be revealed."

It was silent outside, and in the east the first faint hints of dawn were silhouetting the mountains against a brightening sky.

There are very, very faint hints of Peter Weir's Fearless in this determinedly left-field attempt to connect with the notion of survivor's guilt.

Faint hints of yesterdays with no to-morrow;-