I passed out, mercifully quickly, to the dim roar of Slovenian drinking songs, and left before daybreak the next morning.
In a passage that compares the "dim roar of London" to the "bourdon note of an organ," Wilde inserts the word "distant" before "organ," adding a twinge of far-off religious dread.
As what seemed to be the dim roar of traffic mixed with a thick layer of frog calls, the two women slid between the two words in the title, their bodies taking on various creaturely qualities: the rough head-swinging amble of a bear, a bird's rippling wings.
They were escorted down to the stage just as the house lights dimmed, a roar went up from the crowd, and, with the opening riff of "Badlands," the stage lights came on to reveal Bruce, almost close enough to touch.
The house lights dim, an engine roars, and stars flame and flicker out.
The lights dimmed, the crowd roared, and Bill Graham came out of the wings, and as he always did at a Who show, solemnly intoned with his deep voice-of-authority, "Ladies and Gentlemen... on bass, Mr. John Entwistle... on lead vocals, Mr. Roger Daltrey... on drums, Mr. Keith Moon, and on guitar, Mr. Peter Townshend... Please welcome, The Who... .. Off we went!
No opening act, the lights dimmed, the crowd roared, and Bill Graham came out of the wings, and as he always did at a Who show, solemnly intoned with his deep voice-of-authority, "Ladies and Gentlemen... on bass, Mr. John Entwistle... on lead vocals, Mr. Roger Daltrey... on drums, Mr. Keith Moon, and on guitar, Mr. Peter Townshend... Please welcome, The Who... .. Off we went!
Nights are lit by roaring campfires and the dim glow of a solar-powered lantern.
Former leading man Matthew Modine, as CEO John Sculley has the same sort of presence here as he did in last summer's Dark Night Rises, as sort of a dim functionary whose voice never rises to a roar.
This season the roar has been turned down to a dim hum, the promotion and the planning that filled the summer almost completely tossed away.
