"We feel kind of like a candle that's losing its oxygen supply and dimming slowly," Gordon Bethune, Continental's chief executive, said yesterday afternoon in a news conference in Houston.
Now he stares blankly ahead as the lights slowly dim, and time ticks slowly by once again, moving under us all, but gently, inexorably moving in just one direction.
Or you can create a routine that will slowly dim the lights at night before going to sleep.
Claes says that pygmy sharks could, theoretically, secrete tiny amounts of prolactin into their bloodstream to slowly dim their glow, precisely matching the levels of natural light around them.
In the course of the performance, these lights slowly dimmed.
That spirit was slowly dimmed in the aftermath.
Mrs. Rudolph is a housekeeper now, the sight in her one good eye slowly dimming.
As the line passes through each word, it momentarily gleams then slowly dims as the next words are triggered by the yellow line.
(There are also, amusingly, the uninitiated throngs; the troupe's March performance in Scottsdale, Ariz., drew a packed house, aflutter with an energy that slowly dimmed for some viewers, who eventually stalked out, disgruntled by a bracing aesthetic that still possesses a marvelous ability to scandalize conventional dance sensibilities).
In the evening, the lamp closes and slowly dims, allowing your child to fall asleep while counting sheep or some such.
