Sentence examples for dim facade from inspiring English sources
Though much of the artwork on display during our visit was of questionable merit, we wholeheartedly admired the soaring ceilings, arabesque balustrades and intricate plasterwork hiding behind the building's dim facade of chipped paint and boarded-over windows.
The winning design proposed a reconstruction of a dim Edwardian facade.
Discreetly dim lighting caresses the ocher facades of its Renaissance houses, gently picking out their gilded moldings and finials, and throwing diffused shadows from the wrought-iron trade signs.
The night is dim but I can see the stars on the sidewalk, the old brick facades that remind me of Raymond Chandler novels along with the new flat-and-modern chain-store structures.
("The Rouen facade is painted with an uncharacteristic dry, lumpy, accretionary stroke, without fluency; the lacy stone details are laboriously transformed into friable baguettes and dim ribs of color").
Who will prune the facade?
Hoping to enliven what is still a pretty dim nighttime streetscape, a group of downtown landlords -- mostly along Wall and Broad Streets -- plans to illuminate the lower facades of 14 buildings over the next year.
Butler Library, north facade, undated.
