Sentence examples for dim thought from inspiring English sources

As the troop train rattled on, a dim thought would penetrate my cortex: "What they look like to me, I look like to them".

Following this in a 1934 analysis of Romantic poetry, Margaret Sherwood stated that the poem was "a perfect expression of the phase of primitive feeling and dim thought in regard to earth processes when these are passing into a thought of personality".

His enthusiasm for higher teacher salaries was not dimmed by thoughts of higher taxes, or by evidence that the money might not buy much.

I am not indifferent, however, to the attention that will be paid, simply because he has attained this position, to the dim cultist's thoughts and dicta.

The effect intensifies as Collins's directions grow ever more explicit regarding the troubled romance of the couple whose lives she's filming: "Now dim the light... On second thought, kill it, he won't come in before morning".

But slowly the light has begun to dim, through a series of ill-thought-out collaborations, most recently with forgotten Australian electronic outfit the Avalanches.

Are we not quaking when we look to our ancient woodland with the ash and now the oak in our anxious thoughts, and only a dim memory of the elm?

Superimposed over these competing thoughts was a third, dim awareness: I wasn't 100percentt myself.

With Howard gone, though, any thought of rim defense will be a dim memory.

Mr. Brooks writes: "Back in the dim recesses of my mind, I remember a party that thought of itself as a reform, or even a revolutionary, movement.

"There has always been a school of thought that says we need soldiers who are rather dim.