Sentence examples for dimmed star from inspiring English sources

The regular season's final evening had dimmed star power among the top teams, as coaches employed a safety-first strategy with an eye toward the playoffs.

The pileup of performances has diminishing returns, but Mr. Oberzan ably expresses the psychological projection going on in such play-acting, inviting comparisons between Gator and Mr. Van Damme's dimmed star.

Joe Gillis Robertt J. Townsend), a hack screenwriter in Los Angeles in 1950, reluctantly succumbs to the faded charms of a wealthy older woman, Norma Desmond Loni Ackermann), a dimmed star desperate to return to cinematic glory.

It was a box of mirrors in which you could spy yourself, but you became transitory compared with the lights that dangled down and held you still as a dimmed star.

As Quora's dimmed star and Digg's demise demonstrate, avoiding these pitfalls is a challenge that even remarkably bright people can easily fail to overcome.

"Your dimming stars yearning to shine once more.

Kepler, designed to stare unblinkingly at one area of the sky for the dimming stars that mark the transit of distant planets, was phenomenally successful after its 2009 launch.

But to get the exquisitely precise data it needed to pick out individual dimming stars, it had to be able to hold itself very still.

For a short time, it seemed to provide the answer to problems of development from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe, until some well-directed criticism dimmed its star.

But a dim star is more visible than a dark star.

Binary stars are sometimes detectable by changes in apparent brightness, as the darker (or dimmer) star occludes its brighter companion.