And I also think it has much to do with nature, with waking up to the dimmer switch being gradually tweaked, with the recital of bird song, with the sound of the wind.
As 11 years turned into 12, to 15, to 20, to 25, the beckoning light of outside somehow became dimmer.
Maybe he doesn't understand the real world," she says.By the second or third generation, however, memories of oppression grow dimmer.
And in the stampede for university places that has taken place over the past 20 years, clever children from poor families have indeed lost out to dimmer peers from prosperous ones.
But without it, the future would look much dimmer.
Though voters take a dim view of Mr Bush's performance before the terrorist attacks, they seem unlikely to hold that against him, if only because their opinion of the Clinton administration's record is even dimmer.
The brain drain is one of several factors that make the mezzogiorno's prospects dimmer than those of southern Spain, say.
Bright poor children are swiftly overtaken at school by dimmer rich ones and have only a small chance of becoming rich adults.
Crucially, whereas many moderate Christians support stem-cell research, they take a much dimmer view of anything that looks like genetic manipulation.
The reforms would allow more schools to select students, thus disadvantaging the poorer and dimmer among them, they claim.
Around a dozen of them withdrew their support, and its chances of passage looked much dimmer than before.
