What he perhaps dimly realizes as he lies in the cell is what will happen when the trial shifts from him and his picture of the world, this rigorously maintained fiction, to the 77 victims.
Janet stared at her nails, like a sea blob heaved up on a hot beach, dimly realizing that its soft, flat flippers won't help it walk back into the water.
People in Washington seem only dimly to realize that the deepwater oil industry is, in a sense, bigger than the United States.
Hilbert realized, albeit somewhat dimly, that some of his convictions can actually be considered to be mathematical conjectures.
She painted the guitar and blue hat, posted the picture, and began getting comments about squandered opportunities and the rarely realized "15-watt bulb of hope dimly glowing in each message".
But Maud herself is barely present as a realized character, just as Ellie is only dimly perceptible through her halo.
Unsurprisingly, however, the real spectacle is found below, in Interstate's dimly lit basement-turned-Purgatory. Here, Leyva's vision is realized through eerie projections of religious and pop culture images on tall, church window screens and candle-lit plexiglas tubes, cupped by plaster hands.
Demea realizes this, dimly at least, as he leaves the conversation.
When he reached the tree-lined streets at the outskirts of his neighborhood, he realized that he must have made a wrong turn somewhere, for he was passing houses he had never seen before, though some seemed dimly familiar.
