But further study of its dim and distant stars will take some doing.
Our village church, St. Lawrence, was celebrated by Shelley (1815) for its "dim and distant spire".
"I'm linked to him for a certain incident in the dim and distant past.
With these politically tough reforms ahead, the light at the end of tunnel looks dim and distant.
All of which leads to the conclusion that humans reached our intellectual height in the dim and distant past.
The object was a huge sphere of gas orbiting a dim and distant star in the constellation Ophiuchus.
In that text the worldly and practical involvements of Dasein seem like a dim and distant memory.
February half-term is but a dim and distant memory – at least it is for the kids.
Now, most Kuiper Belt objects are too small, dim and distant for astronomers to learn much about them.
5pm: Bananas, fringing, macramé...it's time for a fashion flashback, to the dim and distant past of last week.
There are cliches either truncated ("the dim and distant", "for the foreseeable") or tweaked ("It was, at first sight, love").
