Word: dimming
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...Paris, he was confronted "at every step" with "ready-made paintings which would make the fame and fortune of 20 generations of painters." And in a sense he was right. From Delacroix on, Oriental exoticism would bulk ever larger in the offerings of the Paris salon: slave markets, dim fretted courtyards, hawk-nosed Arabs and their Barbary mounts, recumbent houris...
...bright star among emerging economies suddenly goes dim...
...official: astronomers finally have irrefutable evidence of a solar system beyond our own. But fans of alien life can't celebrate yet: the three confirmed planets are orbiting the dim remnant of a star that exploded long...
Little Women gently but firmly asks us to penetrate its 19th century disguises and discover something of ourselves hiding in the dim past. There has always been a kind of awkward exuberance in the way this story looks life straight in the eye and sweetly, soberly embraces its basic experiences and emotions. It is this unspoken moral strength, which is not to be confused with the vulgar, politicized moralism of our time, that permits it to transcend its gentilities of expression and its lack of structural grace. And grants this lovely cast, these intelligent and passionate filmmakers, the year...
...finds his target deep within the stacks, and approaches stealthily. He places his hand on the spine of his prey and pulls out his knife. The blade flashes under the dim light as the victim screams...