Sentence examples for merely dim from inspiring English sources

Once teachers were turned into objects of fun, it was apparently not hard to devolve them still further — to make them menaces, instead of merely dim bulbs.

Like the production, it's an assured performance, but it's hard to warm to a hero who is presumably supposed to be lovable but comes across as merely dim.

Now that would be a station wagon that wouldn't merely dim memories of the old ones, it would obliterate them with a cloud of tire smoke.

Shambles isn't merely dim.

Indeed, the two tools appear remarkably similar, except that Google+ darkens out the entire page behind the photo viewer, while Facebook merely dims what's behind.

Instinctive Man, to be a little hard on him — though it's my own view that you can never be too hard on Instinctive Man — cost his team a title for the second time in three years, throwing an interception (this one right across the grain of the play) that was not merely ill-timed, but dim-witted.

Instinctive Man, to be a little hard on him though it's my own view that you can never be too hard on Instinctive Man cost his team a title for the second time in three years, throwing an interception (this one right across the grain of the play) that was not merely ill-timed, but dim-witted.

Current observations suggest that they are genuine planets, though some are merely extremely dim stars (sometimes called brown dwarfs).

The revolution that turned most of China upside down is merely a dim flicker of lightning beyond the wintry horizon.

His testimony, though all too brief, in "Jonestown: Paradise Lost," to be broadcast on the History Channel tonight, is reason enough to watch a documentary that would otherwise merely invite dim circumspection.

He seems to be in love with the supposed gorgeousness of his own prose, a backdrop against which his characters emerge merely as dim figures, without consistent motivations or even personalities.