Like the Pixel 2 (the phone), the company no doubt dropped what it deemed excess ports for the sake of dimming things down — and because, well, things are just going in that direction anyway.
So, instead of seeing eye-popping pictures, people were left with, quite literally, a dim view of things.
I imagine he views spin as being politically deceptive and also rightwing in itself, coming from an Americanised, capitalist, Mad Men-era idea that anything, even a human being, can be commodified, simplified, packaged and made palatable to a populace too dim to work things out for themselves.
As an investment advisor, investment manager, you take a dim view of things that we keep being told.
As we peer out into this future, we can catch glimmers and shadows -- the first dim outlines of things that might become part of the emerging picture over the next few decades.
You'll find the courts can be surprisingly uptight on this matter, even taking a dim view of little things like riffling through your loved one's bins to discover their favourite brand of toothpaste).
I do take a pretty dim view of those things.
With both cameras, photographs taken in bright light look good, but image quality suffers quickly as things get dim.
And his tone is as warm and inviting as that big, crackling fire, even if the dim flicker does leave things a bit obscure in the corners.
It was just after World War II and, while much of the country was booming, for the Mullany family, things looked dim.
