During the week of my visit, the smog became so thick that flights were delayed, sections of five expressways were closed, outdoor activities were discouraged, and buildings a block distant were visible only as dim silhouettes in the brown miasma.
Banner ads for Milka chocolate (the venue may have been Stateside, but the main television audience was still overseas) lined the run, along with the dim silhouettes of course workers, many of them wearing crampons to maintain their footing on the icy pitch.
The dim light silhouettes Hickey's sturdy, broad-chested frame as he shuffles toward the hotel room's patio.
Hooves of dark-coloured horses, thundering through dim forest undergrowth; shadows, silhouettes, brief glimpses of terrified eyes.
I peered out the window to see dark jagged edges of skyscrapers, silhouetted against the dim orange glow of midtown.
These retinas sample only a patch of light overhead, probably searching for objects forming shadows or silhouettes against the dim, down-welling light.
In the room darkened for the movie, the faces of the children were sharply silhouetted in the dim light.
A woman leans against a payphone, her gaunt silhouette visible against the dim streetlight.
The size and upward orientation of the bigeye thresher's eyes are adapted to search for the silhouettes of prey in dim light.
Sir David Tang, the Hong Kong-born tycoon, wrote in the Spectator of his visit, "We dined in the only surviving tower looking across the dim city under a desolate moon, against the silhouette of the ruins of the British embassy".
He is standing at one of the apartment's windows, silhouetted by the light of a dim bulb as he gazes at the nighttime traffic streaming down Delancey Street.
