clues

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Examples

Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it. Hannah Arendt

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we aren't perfect. Fred Rogers

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level. Anne Tyler

The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all. Kim Novak

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete. Ross Macdonald

There is a loud cry in these days for clues that shall guide the plain man through the vast bewildering labyrinth of printed volumes. John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn