dim.

He took a stumbling step back and the light of the sphere glared and then waned to a dim glow.

The dim lights of a few cars could be seen in the dusk round the pond, and some people, late as it was, were standing and staring.

With the near future looking dim, rural families may find that it's their turn to help out a returning relative.

One day a man in a truck saw an old lady, stranded on the side of the road, but even in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help.

At least in his home country, three years out of office have done little to dim the dislike.

Besides, the dim and noisy halls tend to be very harmful to children's eyes and ears.

It would be very surprising if the courts that have been fobbed off with poor paperwork did not take a very dim view.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it.

She looked at me with exaggerated patience, as if I were an amiable, if dim, child.

Then, squinting his eye he said: 'The light is dim. Read the letter to me'.

Once my eyes got used to the dim, I gazed around, hoping to see shimmery rocks littering the floor, but dust was all I saw.

And behind the dim light, disguised beyond recognition, how the heart can be the same as ever to the brave and fierce wounded, invincible?

Its star is a red giant - a massive star near the end of its life. It is too dim to see in the night sky from Earth without a telescope.

The noble stared at the blank sheet of paper for a few seconds. Then, squinting his eyes, he said: 'The light is dim. Read the letter to me.

Dim in the existence that seems to have metempsychosis , now, the addition of the design begins to anabiosis.

Dim sum is often his answer to my question of what to eat for lunch.

The second picture contained for foreground only the dim peak of a hill, with grass and some leaves slanting as if by a breeze.

Dim Sum is the name for a Chinese cuisine which involves a wide range of light dishes served alongside Chinese tea.

Once upon a time there was a very, very old man. His eyes had grown dim, his ears deaf, and his knees shook.

future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

But when this angle is missing, there is nothing, or at most a dim darkish fuzzy area where the sunlight is being returned to the Sun.

"I hold your breath for breath to say: " I hope every time I desire to say, your feathers will not fall off, the color will not dim down!

Then, squinting his eyes, he said: 'The light is dim. Read the letter to me. '

He was glad the light was dim on the landing but did not turn away from her.

Yes, there would be a day when his face would be wrinkled and wizen, his eyes dim and colorless, the grace of his figure broke and deformed.

Your suggestion seems to be logical, but if no profit, I'm afraid the manager will still take a dim view of it.

Suddenly he saw a dim pale light in front of him. It was a tiny bug.

To look at the matter in this light simplified his own case and surprisingly furbished up all the dim domestic virtues.

I squeezed her hand, then walked into the dim morning light. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life.

The gray dawn began to dim the light of the rushcandle, before Mary thought it possible that day was already trembling on the horizon.

Her eyes are dim, sitting in a chair with his head down.

His anxiety was more serious than any time, because he had never taken a walk with a girl in such a silent dim moonlight at night.

The "butterfly" zhi 1 flew into the sky above, in turn, just a few laps slowly disappear in the dim light of night.

My sleepiness is dim, actually can also be able to feel him to be blurred, but pornographic look.

And it was not easy to recover from the humiliation of being mistaken for boy by my mother's friend over a Sunday dim sum lunch.

Love is so improvident that a parting a year away is no more feared than death, and a month's end seems dim and distant.

They had swallowed all his dim-witted lies about having tea with a different member of his gang every night of the summer holidays.

Because, although the color a bit dim, but overall it is still very giving people the feeling of a very coordinated.

The company insisted there would be no exemptions and made clear that it would take a dim view of suppliers who did not comply.

Then, squinting his eyes, he said: 'The light is dim. Read it to me. ' And he promptly handed the sheet of paper to the gaoler.

The spotlight starts to dim during the second week as you focus on your finances, which should be in fine standing.

the dark cedars on either side of the gravelled drive met in an arch overhead , turning the long avenue into a dim tunnel.

but his conductors hurried him on, through a gloomy passage lighted by a few dim lamps, into the interior of the prison.

In other words, the prospects for a peace deal, already dim, seem to have faded even further.

Trite praises came flowing into the books or to be printed onto pages only made the important issues difficultly understood and dim wisdom.

Batteries like this will not be able to run a motor or energize most light bulbs. It is possible to produce a dim glow from an LED.

The head was held erect with a sort of robust grace, and beneath the hat the pale profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light.

The feeling which beset the child was one of dim uncertain horror.

was more that of placid affection, serving the loved one softly in an atmosphere, flower-scented and dim-lighted, of ethereal calm .

Seen across the dim candle with his moistened eyes, she looked as if she had a glory shining round her head.

Mike holding his hands cup, a pair of Qing Ling's pupil of the eye looking straight into my eyes, but was a bit too hot steamed dim.

The old station wagon was the only car there, its roof and hood veneered with a dim refracting frost.

I would set out in the dim light of the rising sun and watch the morning fog diffuse as the sun came up.

the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner.

The light was dim apartment, drove tubes, her smile lighting appeared to be in such a charming.

Former days costly be like a dream, warm warm yellow, glaring aureate , cold purple, swaying those are dim the boat of medium memory.

The night air was as cold as water in the dim and quiet village with brilliant stars in the sky overhead.

inability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder.

There was no one visible; under him, in the water, the dim shapes of the swimmers had disappeared.

I can recall fragments of the ambulance ride as if it took place in some dim dream.

They had a different dim sum cart for the white folks. If it had been a soul food restaurant, we'd have had grounds for a lawsuit.

As you move down-spectrum you dim the lights, so to speak, and emotions emerge like the stars after sunset.

But she hugged them to her bosom, and at length she was able to look up with dim eyes and a smile and say: "My hair grows so fast, Jim! "

With dim eyes, I seemed to see the mother once the pair of tender and white hand. . .

You could see it in the dim light of the lantern as it tried to pierce the swirling fog.

the dim utopian future; utopian idealists; recognized the utopian nature of his hopes.

Barely a couple of minutes later, Zhang Jian began to talk about other topics with his 3 distant relatives from China as they ate dim sum.

Fear gnaws at you: "I may never make it back to safety. " Just as all hope is fading, your frantic eyes see a dim light in the distance.

The spike continued to dim the outlook for the stock market, as share prices fell around the world.

Confused also looked at the dim light of the sky, quietly closed the eyes, what do not want to, and what are up from the mind.

"This light is too dim for me to read by. Don't we have a brighter bulb some where" : said the elderly man.

That amplifies the original dim signal, composed of just a few photons, until it becomes visible.

Well, as I say, they took me to several of these parties, and we used to sit for hours round tables, in a dim light, holding hands.

Why not leave the TV outside, have a choice of bright and dim lights, and set up your room in a way that you know will relax you.

This was the time of what was called the "brown -out " , when the lights in all American cities were very dim .

Suddenly, it spends its wings like it is woken . It then flies across the railing and the dim light glides into the dark.

He climbed up to the top of the pole. There he struck the precious match and read the notice in the dim light. "Wet Paint. " it said.

Step into the ring with Olivia, where the lights are dim, the color soft, and a little girl's imagination is the main attraction.

I disliked the dim light, and on the second day fixed, at my own expense, a more powerful electric bulb.

Much good had come to Florence since the dim time of struggle between the old patron and the new.

The experimental results show that this method is effective for clutter suppression of IR dim small target image in challenging condition.

In the dim lamplight he was frightened to see King Goodness leaning over him with sword in hand.

The light of an obscure moon was just sufficient to render objects, though dim, perceptible in their outlines.

Lord Weinstock, the fierce head of what was GEC, sat in his office in near darkness with only his desk illuminated by a dim spotlight.

I was, but I spoke to Dim Johnson, and he talked to me out of it.

Short-term recovery is, however, not the same as long-term prosperity, and Fiat-Chrysler's prospects of achieving the latter look dim.

In the flat and dim morning light, I do not see it in time. I have no way to evade it or to slow Miss Daisy down.

At the back of the shop, dim but for a single lamp hanging from the ceiling, there were a few unvarnished wooden tables.

Just a few years ago, Mr. Maina said, "solar lights" were merely basic lanterns, dim and unreliable.

These dim objects, intermediate between stars and planets, are not luminous enough to be directly detectable by our telescopes.

At times the two Murdochs addressed the MPs as if they were a slightly dim MBA class.

The girl met boy, it is life's most of the time, and dim the simple life, of course, the boy appeared to her and left an indelible memory.

At first it was just a dim glow reflecting off the bushes in the distance.

The beach was a white sand smear across the dim green length of the huge cavern.

Shelton saw that the heat was really harming her, as too hot a day will dim the icy freshness of a northern plant.

In the dim lamplight, a spin, one look seem to have taken the psychedelic colour, let a person forget about spacetime.

I do not. Of course the deficit matters. But it should be a policy variable rather than targeted to meet a dim accountant's idea of balance.

The authors of the American Voter seem to take a somewhat dim view of group identification (as does Converse '64).

The beauty is often says dim, because the beauty can sense to the beauty of hazy reservation.

Though the light was dim and the furniture poor, it had a warm, friendly atmosphere.

A trance as ever sighed mottle, puckered dim fell out of favor China rusty, so a few worship religious, can change time no more?

Suddenly he descried a dim yellow light moving noiselessly towards him from the far end of a long lane.

In the dim light he could see pointed black boots, almost close enough to touch; above hung the black - trimmed hem of a scarlet robe.

And when he pierced with a sharp reed the dim eyes of the mole, they laughed, and when he cast stones at the leper they laughed also.

Hopes for growth in the U. S. , where same-store sales have been declining for more than two years, are dim.

The hippocampi from the dim-light group had significantly fewer dendritic spines than those from the dark night group.

Pale blue in the air-conditioning of cold mist, summer is still people, under a dim light, only the crack tip jumps this quiet.

So he had hastened on, with a dim idea of how he could help them - one of them in particular.

They were admitted by the old Negro into a dim hall from which a staircase mounted into still more shadow.

In the Swedish winter, there was no sun. A dim grey illumination came from the clouds, casting no shadows.

In the dim and distant past, picking the best stocks was just seen as being clever; now that skill is known as "alpha" .

Like a dim-witted teenager in a bad horror flick, this oblivious sea lion pup frolics in clear view of a hungry predator. . .

Qin Dynasty consciousness is some puny dim, act not know just what to appear is who, hears sounds to feel to is a female.

Mr. Fong also questions whether the dim sum market is deep enough to raise $1. 4 billion, as Evergrande did with its synthetics.

The only trouble is that it would be so dim as to be next to useless.

Little Women gently but firmly asks us to penetrate its 19th century disguises and discover something of ourselves hiding in the dim past.

In short, there are several syntax conveniences for attaching a dim attribute to a vector, but at heart that is all the syntax sugar does.

One current theory holds that nearsightedness might be caused by reading in dim light or holding books too close to the face.

In the dark I lit a candle, dim the flame gently beating, it is still the heartbeat.

I ran across a dim photograph of him.

Most objects in the sky are very dim. Telescope effectively collects more light and converges it for our viewing.

There's no electricity beyond that provided by one old solar panel that powers two dim lights for a few hours a day.

The dim, dusty nebulae reflect starlight from our own Milky Way Galaxy and lie only a few hundred light-years above the galactic plane.

In the dim light inside the room, I could see it was a very simple and crude room with nothing but bare walls.

Dumpling is now available in the north as well as south China and most people enjoy dumplings either as a staple food or as dim sum.

After my eyes became used to the dim light in the cave, I saw an old shovel on the ground.

Dim KTV box, we play very crazy, finally ended quickly, he sang for me with you, can not help the tears fall down.

Dim not ever having much of an idea of things and being, beyond all shadow of a doubting thomas, the dimmest of we four.

Let go of whatever baggage which seeks to dim your light for you can only win the battle through your highest vibration.

First hour, first moment of your meeting me, If bright or dim the season, it might be summer or winter.

As a rule, White House spokespeople strenuously avoid economic predictions , particularly when the nation's financial outlook is dim .

Some considered Mr Gates unduly blunt in warning that this Europe faces a dim and possibly dismal future.

Do not let the consistent adherence to melt into thin air, do not let the pursuit of the holy light dim.

Rarely in history have brutal factors so dominated thought or has such a widespread individual virtue found so dim a collective focus.

CONRAD: I know. I can see that. This is what is called "dim sum, " right?

Effectively being on your own for so long would make anyone garrulous and dim their social skills.

Each of us is a lamp into the river, in the river of life, wind waves are calm, we will strive for sparkling dim light of a candle . . .

Because a planet that close to its star would dim the dwarf's light as it passes.

Day was by this time approaching, the west was dim, the east beginning to gleam.

Her grass-green eyes grew dim with tears, and she said to the Fisherman, `Ask me anything but that!

Having searched for him hundreds and thousands of times in the crowd, suddenly you turn back, and he is there by the dim light.

They saw nothing but a dim grayness, or was it blackness?

Well common sense should tell you to avoid cosy romantic places with dim lighting.

By last spring, Mr. Yang, 40, was afraid to leave his dim mud-clay house. "All he did was stay home and cry, " Ms. Wen said.

There is no other place in the galaxy to dine on delicious Dim Sum, Moo Shu Beef, and Peking Duck.

As our eyes grow accustomed to the dim light of the sanctuary we notice preparations for a festival .

In his decade at the top of British and international politics , he was, indeed , a star , albeit in a rather dim firmament .

In the dim twilight, you give a pleasant smile of a woman comes, a dialogue I know had a hobby, interest group.

Come on out . It's time to leave the dim lights behind and step right out into the spotlight -- and isn't it about time?

But in the developed world regulators take a dim view of such practices, so operators have had to respond in other ways.

Given the dim job prospects, universities here have been less than successful at raising foreign student enrollment numbers.

The early Georgians used to walk in muddy lanes or over blown downs or through dim, green-gray beech-woods or fragrant forests of pine.

So, the correct question to ask is How dim an object can you see using this telescope?

Dim sum is a curious term that defies direct translation into English but means something like "touch the heart" .

North early autumn night, moonlight dim, night appears to be so beautiful, joyfully lively.

So we have to cancel all other light sources to see this very, very dim light from the atoms.

THEY are in Paris, buying Chanel shoes. They are in London, scouting Mayfair property. They are in Rome, ordering dim sum instead of pasta.

LORI: No, dim sum is usually eaten around lunch time, or sometimes closer to breakfast.

The dim figures which he had formerly discovered must have been on the summit of the ridge.

My knowledge of this life is little, my eye of faith is dim, but it's enough for Christ knows it all, and He is with me.

'If there's ever a good dim sum shop in Paris, we'll send a Chinese inspector over there to look at it.

Is only a dim dream, or wisp passes afternoon sunlight? Too fearful, this kind of day, the illusion, was going to end.

Presently he could see the men all around him in dim outline.

He took a dim view of my suggestion.

Meanwhile, a comprehensive climate bill is hopelessly stalled in the Senate, and its prospects of approval in an election year are dim.

Darkness fell, and the houses standing far and near began to give out dim light through the windows.

Langdon stood in the dim light of his study and analyzed the fax in his hand.

Acquisition of muti-dim-small target in the infrared image is one of hotspots and difficulty in the research of formation processing lately.

As it grew too dim, the umpire decided to postpone the decisive game in this semifinal to tomorrow.

Given America's structural problem with China and absent constructive trade reform, our economic prospects can only dim further.

Dim lights and soft music are supposed to produce a romantic atmosphere.

Dim the light before going to bed.

They spread their mats in the courtyard in the dim light of the early moon, and sat and talked of strange lands.

Across the river in Arlington , the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier stands amidst the dim, grave and majestic Arlington National Cemetery .

Dim light and soft music are supposed to produce a romantic atmosphere.

You know all bars are kind of dim and hedge beautiful music.

Dim small targets detection in infrared image is one of the key techniques of infrared search and track system.

"The sea lies all about us. . . In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life" (Rachel Carson).

And indeed, this strategy is no cure-all. But without a vibrant, innovative economy, all other prospects dim.

Darkness cast down, the houses standing far and near began to gave out dim light through the window.

Head off to Lei Yuan, a Cantonese dim sum restaurant two blocks away from the office, to meet Xu Jiali, our Chinese partner.

No one was on the street, every door or window was closed on both sides, like a dim , vague and unauthentic picture on the cloth.

The solution to the boundary value problem for a 2-dim photodissociation model of a linear triatomic molecule was studied.

With the passage of time the golden yellow in my memory grew dim and gradually it was almost forgotten.

Turning round the hillside, we found a tract of flat ground. At its end, we saw a house shrouded in the dim light of night.

It was impossible to read by the dim light of the fire.

The real-time detection algorithm of moving dim small targets in image sequences is one of the key algorithms in precise guidance system.

The dim targets detection in infrared images is one of the key techniques in military weapon system.

Rubbed its sleepy eyes dim, but unwilling to get up, but curled up in the quilt.

Yes, thank you. And Fried Romaine Lettuce with Garlic Mince. This is the complete course, and a dim sum to follow.

Disturbed the night to sing to sing the dim light the lower levels become out of my mind sad recollections.

In my experience, Salafis, adherents of a very strict school of Islam, take a dim view of such displays of femininity.

Dim sum bonds have been a key to the experiment.

I gave myself up for lost in the depth of a glad humiliation---in the shadow of a dim delight.

Dim the lights down a father and son are eating the quiet dining table father noodles have no facial expression, eat quietly bowl of rice.

Finally, he suddenly discovered an old parrot which dropped his teeth and its feathers looks dim and messy, its price is 800 dollars.

There was much that was dim and nebulous in that world, but he saw it as a whole and not in detail, and he saw, also, the way to master it.

From these quiet windows the figures of passing travellers looked too remote and dim to disturb the sense of privacy.

arty fighting will weaken the eventual nominee and dim the Party's chances of capturing the White House.

Even though then a focus becomes dim, it is all right.

In Morgantown the rooms were dim, the murky green or turquoise of pond water, and the doctors had been hurried, brisk with them, distracted.

When observed in visible light, they are small and dim, just like a star. However, near the infrared and radio, they are quite bright.

open their dim eyes and behold the beauty of the night.

My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance.

With limited daylight, chances are you'll be running in the dark (Alaskans, sadly, get only a few hours of dim light per day).

I told her by hitting my self at the head that I couldn't deal with too much wine, liquor, fish, vegetables and dim sums.

The door stood open, and the room with its white, monumental bed, its closed shutters , looked dim and mysterious.

The lights began to dim, the conductor began waving his baton, and the soprano started singing.

The lull in Frank's criticism gave him a dim hope that the worst was over.

He laughed; Hareton darkened: I perceived he was very sensitive to suspected slights, and had obviously a dim notion of his inferiority.

Yet without another bipartisan coalition, the prospects for negotiating further trade barrier reductions around the world will be dim.

' Again, such is his attachment to the things of the world that, when he sees the lamp burning brightly, he says: 'Dim the light.

I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance.

Gates sounded a pessimistic note, warning of "the real possibility for a dim if not dismal future for the transatlantic alliance. "

He constantly reads in the dim light, to the detriment of his eyesight. He sits up very late to the detriment of his health.

She photographs them over a period of two weeks while their shapes change as the bacteria stop glowing and begin to dim and die.

I wish I had not let my life get so dim.

The mission is complicated by the fact that it finds planets by monitoring stars that periodically dim when planets cross in front of them.

She waited at the top of the stairs, wearing a white dress, barefoot, black braids and bare legs in the dim twilight of the faint blue.

I would take a dim view of being thanked for my passion, as I strongly believe that passion is something best kept for one's private life.

He stood behind his desk in the far end of the DIM room. The wife liked him. She liked the deadly serious way he received any complaints.

In the dim light squeezing through the door, she watched him startle.

Emperor Bokassa I, who spent US million on his coronation in 1976, is a dim memory to his former subjects in the Central African Republic.

Avogadro Layer Cake uses blended Avogadro , yet they added in shredded coconut to rise up the aroma and texture, a new creation of Dim Sum.

It was a dim, old-fashioned chamber, festooned with cobwebs, and besprinkled with antique dust.

Dim indoor lighting doesn't seem to provide the same kind of feedback.

His eyes had become dim and his ears were dull of hearing.

The beginning of 20th century witnessed an impoverished and enfeebled China that slumbered in dim prospects.

If long time will put resynchronized dim interior, easy to cause the fallen leaves.

To hunt down your detractors would be hideously embarrassing and would only confirm their dim view of you.

The beginning of 20th century witnessed an impoverished and enfeebled China, slumbering in the dim prospects.

Prospects for further rescues appeared to dim Tuesday.

To be sure, even before the midterm elections, the prospects for meaningful action on climate change in Washington were dim.

The rating agencies' dim view of German assets over the past few years, based on the poor economy, was a further incentive to look west.

Lastly, there are two or four kinds of dim sum for dessert, then fresh fruit and a cup of hot tea to conclude the dinner.

Tall, glimmering queen, come near, and let me see again the shadowy blossom of thy dim hair.

Isn't it true that some times when our eyes of faith become dim, we don't see things clearly, we missed the truth about Jesus Christ.

The skeletal foot also appeared a bit dim because the moving stripes of the parallax barrier block some of the screen's light.

But what if alien life was more dim green slime than brainy green men?

It appears we are out of the mini - crisis with the Liverpool fiasco an increasingly dim and distant memory.

It permeated the whole field, and turned into dim poetry. However, I had to go on a long journey.

He warned that NATO had a "dim if not dismal future" if wealthy members like Germany and France don't invest more in their militaries.

Further Practice ? He spoke with firmness, but his face was very sad and his eyes at times were dim.

It carries me upstairs through a square in the tiled ceiling to a dim, oak-paneled office.

Dim dim light is not bright, her eyes.

in another post, she imagined writing "frightfully dim" or "dresses like a streetwalker" on their report cards.

The most popular dim sums are Shrimp dumplings, steamed dumplings with the dough gathered at the top, beef balls, and rice noodle rolls.

Meanwhile, protesters around the world will take a dim view of distrusted politicians deciding to bail out banks again.

In the dim sunlight, a young worker, with a worst bag on his shoulder, was hurrying to the Chinese Department to audit a selective course.

But close watchers of the stock maintain that unless Sony stems losses in its television segment, the outlook for its shares will be dim.