That means that a street lantern can switch on and off depending on how busy the street is: if nobody is there, they dim, but as soon as a car, bike or pedestrian approaches, they turn themselves on and accompany the vehicle or person on his way.
#icj #whaling — Tim (nice but dim) (@timbothetim) March 31 , 2014@GreenpeaceUK Great news.. Now to stop Japan whaling in North Pacific and the dolphin drives.
On the opening, title track, his central chorus line is a breathtaking update of her ruminations – hope and longing swing upward, are briefly lit, and then pad softly down into a dim world of inner brooding.
Brando's arrival on set unprepared and overweight, necessitating his being shot only from certain angles in dim lighting, has now been incorporated into film-making legend, described in George Hickenlooper and Fax Bahr's documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Film-maker's Apocalypse.
Edge: Oakland Skyline's famed Three Way Chili in Cleveland, or dim sum at Alameda's East Ocean Seafood Restaurant?
"The dead die hard," is how "Echo's Bones" begins, and here is Belacqua, "who now found himself up and about in the dust of the world, back at his old games on the dim spot"; "sat double on a fence like a casse-poitrine", smoking a Romeo and Juliet and wondering whether "if he had been cremated rather than inhumed directly he would have been less likely to revisit the vomit".
I believe that our desire for our partners shouldn't dim for any reason related to their appearance, and that I should feel sexually attracted to my wife even if she were to wake up, say, with a fisherman's beard.
Later, while cutting wild mushrooms from a dim, damp forest carpeted in pine needles, Guzman tells me that it has been difficult for his restaurant to gain traction in Chile.
Wickham's late scoring volley could not dim Pardew's joy.
The World Heritage Committee will take a dim view of this decision which is in direct contravention of one of its recommendations".
