Related Excerpt: Major Pettigrews Last Stand (March 7, 2010) Helen Simonsons Web Site The Sunday Book Review on Major Pettigrews Last Stand (March 7, 2010) Major Pettigrew dimly knows this woman as Mrs. Ali.
Found only in peripheral areas like this volcano on the far northern tip of Japan's main island, and only dimly known to most Japanese, the itako are among the last remaining adherents to ancient shamanistic beliefs that predate Buddhism and modern forms of Shintoism, Japan's two main religions, historians say.
We are, instead, the servants of debt, of global forces we barely comprehend, let alone master, of dimly known internal desires and frailties, of bodily weaknesses and communal guilt, of location and environment.
So, come to these shows for the sick burns about CrossFit and podcasts and people who wear sweaters; stay for the perceptive truths about the necessity and dangers of building emotional walls in a world where the Internet allows us to be both overexposed and dimly known.
I knew dimly that I might gain advantages by befriending my wealthier clients, but I wasn't sure what kind – and I was nervous about seeming phony.
Stern dimly recalled that he knew a wealthy investor in Oklahoma who once represented the Spurs.
Riddley knows dimly of the "barms" (bombs) that once devastated the land.
For the most part, this kind of talk belongs to the dimly perceived era known as the 20th century.
Several Gladiators said they had been only dimly aware of football, though they knew of films like "The Longest Yard" and "Any Given Sunday".
RG: I had been dimly aware of her as an image and icon, but knew very little about her until the early 1980s.
