"Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto".
As Emerson saw it, "Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto".
Think the superlative drunken bar scene in The Heat, the excruciating food-poisoning segue at the bridal store in Bridesmaids, or the killer denouement of Spy, in which Jason Statham's arrogant but dim-witted secret agent flounces off by boat for a trip to some fancy Mediterranean port, only to discover moments later that his swanky speedboat is docked in a lake.
At a time when the prospects for immigration overhaul seem most dim, supporters have unleashed a secret weapon: a group of influential evangelical Christian leaders.
Amid festering tension with Colombia, including claims that Colombian paramilitaries were fomenting destabilization plots, President Chávez quietly unveiled his intelligence law in late May, which would have abolished the DISIP secret police and DIM military intelligence, replacing them with new intelligence and counterintelligence agencies.
It sat there in the dim room, like a small, shining secret.
But while the dirty corporate secrets revealed in Nickel and Dimed have given low-pay campaigners new focus, Ehrenreich has had no comeback from the companies themselves.
Best Kept Secret: The Michelin-star rated dim sum at Tim Ho Wan offers tasty (and affordable) dim-sum creations like steamed pork dumplings and baked buns with barbecued pork.
The potential of secret corporate money in politics is too insidious, the prospects for our Republic too dim, to allow corporate "speech" to be conducted in secret and with shareholder money.
Local police were conducting security checks on the roof on Wednesday and uninvited visitors were rapidly ushered out from the dim interior by tight-lipped staff, because "the secret service are doing their sweep-through right now".
"Within each woman and man, the dim cavern of the unconscious holds our forbidden feelings, secret wishes, and creative urges.
