Word: dimmer
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Einstein's 1915 general relativity theory has predicted the existence of black holes and event horizons. But until recently, telescopes were too imprecise to tell the difference between dim neutron stars and even dimmer black holes...
...week, any men still alive would have steadily been sliding toward death. As the CO2 level rose, their brains would have slowly turned off, as if on a dimmer switch; consciousness would have ebbed to coma, and reality would have faded to black...
...Clinton fairly radiated the lightness of being: "See how mine enemies flee before my face." Everyone else who came to the platform seemed somehow smaller and dimmer. His own wife, though highly burnished, has settled into an unfortunate speaking style - hard, flat, dogmatic and haranguing, heavy with a metallic menace. She seems to have learned nothing from Bill about giving a speech...
While Milosevic has destroyed the lives of many people by pursuing his own interests instead of securing the rights of Serbians and all other minorities, the future could be even dimmer. The Yugoslavs would not like to become another protectorate in the region, with elected presidents sacked at will as in Bosnia last year and with the possibility of losing further territory and rights. A particular aspect of this fear presently relates to Kosovo, which the international community recognizes as a part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia while not recognizing Yugoslavia itself...
...Everyone looks as if he or she is about to deliver a funny line. It's only after 20 expectant minutes or so that you realize you haven't laughed yet. And that the hope for humor--as opposed to frazzle, which soon gives way to frenzy--is growing dimmer...