How To Use Dimness In A Sentence
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What the dimness suggests here is the fading of one age and the approach of a new one, a cultural agon crystallized in these two men.
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Thus islanded in dimness and the murmur of traffic fading toward silence, one is apt for the ministration.
Bernard DeVoto's "The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto," reviewed by Michael Dirda
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The light of the short winter day was already beginning to fade, and in the dimness the estate looked well-kept.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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The woman and man make their way through the dimness of settling ash and sulfurous mist, their attention divided between their destination and the danger and opportunity around them.
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Without its usual brilliant lighting on the rose-pink marble the alcove in which the pool was situated had a murky dimness.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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The first thing he saw through a gap between the huts was a cooking pot, a grey bulge in the dimness.
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I could barely see her in the dimness; the grey light beyond the doors had deepened to slaty blue.
NIGHT SISTERS
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Evenings we attacked dinner, surprised at how often we japed and laughed; afterward we took our ease before a stone fireplace, in dimness that burning pine logs made flickery fragrant, and talked more seriously, traded memories, thoughts, and-shyly at first-dreams.
Explorations
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Stephen Pound, the Labour MP from Ealing North, will advocate caliginosity (dimness; darkness) on the floor of Parliament.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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As his eyes adjusted to the dimness he began to feel dominated by the blank stares of the plaster martyrs.
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The ensuing grassroots campaign failed to save "embrangle" (to confuse or entangle) and "caliginosity" (dimness, darkness).
Jezebel
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Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side. Anthony Liccione
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The face of Mrs Lisbon took form in the dimness.
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The grandeur of towering pines, the mysterious dimness of illimitable arcades, and the peculiar resinous odor that stole like lingering ghosts of myrrh, frankincense and onycha through the vaulted solitude of a deserted hoary sanctuary, all these phases of primeval Southern forests combined to weave a spell that the stranger could not resist.
At the Mercy of Tiberius
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Joan saw and heard so much, then through a kind of dimness, that she could not wipe away, her eyes beheld Jim.
The Border Legion
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After a while, up came a man and saying, “This is a fox whose gall cleareth away film and dimness from the eyes, if they be anointed therewith like kohl,” took out his knife to slit up the fox’s paunch.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A thick fog wrapped the world in dimness early this morning; at eight o'clock it was rolling off and piling itself in glorious headlands
An Island Garden
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However, the dimness of that X-ray signal and its rapid fading made the observations difficult to interpret.
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The nation's general dimness cannot be remedied with a week's worth of quizzing.
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As somber in the dimness were the portraits that stared from their frames.
The Stars Are Also Fire
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While all this was under way, out of the white dimness came the contractor, carrying four wooden stakes, a heavy sackful of something, and two bottles of sake; and knowing exactly what to do.
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I squinted to adjust my eyes to the dimness.
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They were both rayless and strangely — lightless; they threw no shadows nor did their lambency lessen the dimness.
The Metal Monster
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She was attacked in 1930 by the caustic critic Wyndham Lewis for her ‘fashionable dimness‘.
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Tall and erect against the dimness within the hall, splendidly apparelled and in her proud prime, there stood old King Henry's sole surviving legitimate child, Empress Maud by her first marriage, countess of Anjou by her second, the uncrowned Lady of the English.
A River So Long
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As the subway moved through the underworld dimness of fluorescent light and darkness, he considered the pasty faces of the car's riders.
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See an eye care professional if you have any loss or dimness of vision, pain, fluid coming from the eye, double vision, redness, or swelling.
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Some people may find cooking and eating in dimness romantic, but we’d prefer that it be a choice and not a requirement.
December « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
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Doubtful it may be, whether it should be called dimness of understanding, or rather perverse ingenuity, that men reason thus, when the facts are: So general is the disposition to abuse power, that wherever it is accumulated, it will surely be abused; accordingly it must be distributed as equally as possible.
The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society
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Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side. Anthony Liccione
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Then he snapped his fingers, and the moujik came padding out of the dimness of the wood; he was heeled and ready as well, his eyes glaring above his furze of beard.
Fiancée
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Let us remember, in our judgment of what may appear to us even grave errors of opinion in the book, that its author has fought for every step of ground that has been gained of late years by spiritual religion in Germany; and, while we lament the "dimness" which this great man confesses with such Christian-like humility, let us acknowledge the grandeur of his idea of the kingdom of God, and the earnestness of his devotion to it.
The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement.
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Thus then they entered into the narrow pass aforesaid, which was the ingate to the Vale from the Waste, and little by little its dimness swallowed up their long line.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
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And then it follows, chapter 9: 1, "For the dimness shall not be like to that wherein it was ill with him, at what time the former [afflicter] lightly touched the land of Zabulon, and the land of
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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They asked one another what she could be saying to them with those frightful gestures which accompanied her speech, and mounted round about her on the tables, beds, and sycamore boughs, they strove with open mouths and craned necks to grasp the vague stories hovering before their imaginations, through the dimness of the theogonies, like phantoms wrapped in cloud.
Salammbo
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The room was quiet in the dimness of early evening.
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It took a while for his eyes to adjust to the dimness.
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In such a dimness was my head that I felt neither the soreness of my wounds nor the cuts of thorns on my knees, but stumbled towards the mill, almost past fear of man and death, panting with fear of the darkness that crept behind me from trunk to trunk.
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
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The ensuing grassroots campaign failed to save "embrangle" (to confuse or entangle) and "caliginosity" (dimness, darkness).
Jezebel
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There was hardly a light in the place; the dimness set a gloomy atmosphere in the office.
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The woman and man make their way through the dimness of settling ash and sulfurous mist, their attention divided between their destination and the danger and opportunity around them.
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The pity that proves so possible and plentiful without that basis, is mere _ignavia_ and cowardly effeminacy; maudlin laxity of heart, grounded on blinkard dimness of head -- contemptible as a drunkard's tears.
Latter-Day Pamphlets
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The bulb had blown and he stood in the dimness putting objects on shelves.
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His only cavils are the notoriously short battery life of PDA-phone combination devices, and the screen's relative dimness in bright sunlight - but in all other light conditions, he says, the screen is crisp and readable.
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We hurried a few steps down the hall, then stopped, our eyes adjusting to the dimness.
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Soft, low lighting adds a noir, decadent dimness to the scarlet interior, the ruby red carpets almost glowing.
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His eyes held a sad dimness as he gazed on my pitiful figure.
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Some large dauby old paintings gave a color to the dimness, there were
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
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They were both rayless and strangely — lightless; they threw no shadows nor did their lambency lessen the dimness.
The Metal Monster
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The first thing he saw through a gap between the huts was a cooking pot, a grey bulge in the dimness.