A Chalcolithic Period (Copper Age; i.e., transitional period between the Late Neolithic and the Bronze Age) dating to the mid-5th millennium may be dimly perceived.
In "Food for the Spirit" (1971), a series of 14 photographs that seem to grow progressively blacker, Ms. Piper can be dimly perceived, sometimes nude and facing frontally, a camera at the ready as if to snap a picture of the viewer.
The traditional "instinctive" distinctions between the larger planetary bodies of the solar system, their moons, and small bodies such as asteroids and comets were made when their differences had seemed more profound and clear-cut and when the nature of the small bodies as remnant building blocks of the planets was dimly perceived.
God cannot be seen; his nature is hidden; truth is only dimly perceived.
It is an exercise in rationality, but its energy comes from the ideas in the minds of power figures the content of which, as well as their origins, are only dimly perceived.
There seems to be no good reason why the Hellenes, clustered in isolated city-states in a relatively poor and backward land, should have struck out into intellectual regions that were only dimly perceived, if at all, by the splendid civilizations of the Yangtze, Tigris and Euphrates, and Nile valleys.
Yet the implications of this epic shift are still only dimly perceived by many managers.
The novel's readers learned to think alright, but our conclusion, though we only dimly perceived it, was that we were inevitably enmeshed in heartbreaking relations and (if we are decent) self-criticism.
Yet no industry is so unregulated, so dimly perceived, promises so much but can often do so little — or so much harm.
Gingrich, like Churchill, is one of those figures who fix on dangers only dimly perceived by others, and whose urgent warnings are often unheeded because of the messenger's complicated political biography.
IF CURRENT theories of physics are correct, the observable universe of atoms and molecules is merely froth floating on a sea of dimly perceived stuff called, for that very reason, dark matter and dark energy.
