The phrase "a dim eye" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has poor vision or is unable to see clearly, either literally or metaphorically.
Example: "As he aged, he found himself relying on glasses more often, as he had developed a dim eye for reading small print."
Alternatives: "poor eyesight" or "fading vision".
Standing on a subway platform, Easter stares "down the dark throat of the tunnel" and sees "a pair of dim eyes peering back at her".
But where was I? I was absent, or rather visible only as two dim eyes, a ghostly voyeur into its inaccessible gaiety.
He called in one of the policemen overseeing the elections, a young man with a bleary, red face and dim eyes.
Skype's slight time lag gave Rubio the appearance of a ventriloquist's dummy, his lips moving out of synch with the audio, as he explained blandly to the apparently mystified Paul — squinched-up eyebrows, dim eyes — that "this is a country with a lot of disagreements," a situation that would not change, he argued, were there new legislation.
My pedagogues at secondary school also took a dim view of the Eye-inspired satire rag I photocopied and distributed, and which was named – in an homage to Dave Spart, their parody Trotskyite columnist – "The Alternative Voice".
This may be the world's first picaresque hillbilly musical, with three louts on the run from a Southern prison and their intelligence at best a dim flicker behind their eyes.
Second, binocular luster is strongest with large luminance differences between two patches presented dichoptically (e.g., a bright white disk to one eye and a dim black disk to the other; Levelt, 1968).
For me, as for many in New York, an image that emerges today from out of the past is that of the French director Pierre Étaix, whose name had hovered before my eyes as a dim phantom thanks to the inclusion of his film "Yoyo" on Jean-Luc Godard's ten-best list for 1965.
Sitting in a dim room to accommodate dilated eyes, we waited and wondered, unsure of what was coming next.
