scintilla

That had more than a scintilla of substance—is Mitt actually a political shape-shifter?

How could anyone do all this without leaving behind a scintilla of microscopic evidence?

Forde is among those who note that every scintilla of blame cannot be put on FitzPatrick and Drumm.

It does take a certain talent to take Paul Newman and present the actor without a scintilla of excitement.

I have not a scintilla of interest in being at court when the judge sentences him.

I would not, Mr. President, give up a scintilla of that portion of the responsibility which the crisis imposes on me.

They had merely waited that scintilla of ocular confirmation of a known danger.

This seems to me to have not a scintilla of justice about it.

In these churches there were no fire altars; but the small scintilla of sacred fire preserved in them, was kept only in a lamp.

She is beautiful of course, but quite without charm or the slightest scintilla of wit.