He called in one of the policemen overseeing the elections, a young man with a bleary, red face and dim eyes.
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.
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.
Some had trouble recognizing one another, the years having reshaped faces and dimmed eyes.
A catalog of pediatric suffering quickly formed into queues: children with grotesque burns and skin infections, distended scrapes and scorpion and spider bites, bleeding ears, dimmed eyes or heavy, rolling coughs.
The third verse takes you into the heart of the holocaust: "My hair was scorched by swirling flame/My eyes grew dim, my eyes grew blind/Death came and turned my bones to dust/And that was scattered by the wind".
From Janet's useless husband and Rachel's idiot brother who can't boil an egg without burning down the kitchen, to the fellow plods who were either dim or eye candy, there wasn't a man who did credit to their species.
She carried nothing in her hands, no purse, no personal possessions of any kind, but when Arty opened the door she raised her hand and dimmed her eye, taking one last drag from a cigarette before extinguishing it under her bright silver heel.
