Sentences with word «dimly»

Even still, these objects may glow dimly because the force of gravity causes them to continue shrinking, which releases energy in the process.

On the dimly lit seafloor, where the shrimp dig their burrows, their complex eyes have another crucial function: interspecies communication.

Visitors may descend further into the dimly lit world of sharks.

The only time most of us are even dimly aware of these structures — thin curls of bone deep in the nasal cavity — is when they fail us.

The writer seems only dimly aware how this half - hearted message will set off a bomb in the world where Jenny McCarthy lives — that she will turn on that wicked grin and brandish this study to launch another 40 years of vicious debate over whether autism is caused by environmental factors, namely vaccines, and thus can be cured by brave and dedicated parents like her, or whether it's just a condition people are born with.

The swirling skies of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night illustrate a mystery that has eluded biologists for more than a century — why do we perceive the color blue in the dimly lit night sky?

Passer domesticus brought into the lab and kept dimly illuminated at night were slower in fighting off West Nile infections than lab sparrows allowed full darkness, Kernbach reported January 7 at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

They found 47 faint smudges: galaxies that could be at least as large as the Milky Way, but which contain so few stars that they glow as dimly as dwarf galaxies.

We can envision them only dimly.

A dimly lit massive galaxy called Dragonfly 44 is a record 99.99 per cent dark matter, and could help rewrite our theories of galaxy formation.

Rachel Greenberg makes hundreds of crucial decisions while shuffling through the dimly lit bays of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.

Inside, EuroParc is a dimly lit warren of rooms, cluttered with mountain bikes, straggly pot plants, inflatable animals, dog - eared posters, and all...

After treatment, two of the six patients were able to navigate a dimly lit maze.

Their full story, though, is rather more complex and still only dimly glimpsed.

That so few men made it to this refuge shows how dimly aware they were of the threat posed by Typhoon Haiyan, which crashed into the central Philippines on Friday with some of the strongest winds ever recorded.

I dimly remember that astronomers have proposed that the universe may be hyperbolic, displaying a constant negative curvature.

My dimly remembered high - school maths suggests that one of them must have gone to zero.

Not true, I thought dimly.

In a dimly lit room, stand in front of a mirror with a flashlight held away from your face.

SQUINTING at dimly lit tapestries, costumes and silks could be a thing of the past if Britain's museums and stately homes take up the results of a recent study.

Storing the captured CO2 deep underground — a dimly understood realm where fracking may have poisoned the public well of goodwill — has yet to be tackled outside the oil industry.

They exploited it not just for ivory, but also for food, Smiarowski says as he huddles in a dimly lit side room here to review recent finds.

A dimly lit, dense forest.

Even if certain patterns can be dimly discerned, our ability to do so diminishes with time, exactly as for the weather.

Binoculars show it as a dimly shimmering ball of light.

Plato likened our view of the world to that of an ancient forebear watching shadows meander across a dimly lit cave wall.

He made a series of statements in a 1978 Science paper that are startling given his role as a spokesperson for science: ``... unconscious or dimly perceived finagling, doctoring, and massaging are rampant, endemic, and unavoidable in a profession [science] that awards status and power for clean and unambiguous discovery»; «unconscious manipulation of data may be a scientific norm»; «scientists are human beings rooted in cultural contexts, not automatons directed toward external truth».

For a few stunned drivers on the back roads in the predawn gloom, the pulse of energy that tears through the ground looks dimly like a 20 - mile wrinkle moving through a carpet of pastures and into thick stands of redwoods.

In a story overseen by an editor named Whittaker Chambers, the magazine noted with its typical prose from the period: «[T] here will be dimly discernible, to those who are interested in cause & effect in history, the features of a shy, almost saintly, childlike little man with the soft brown eyes, the drooping facial lines of a world - weary hound, and hair like an aurora borealis... Albert Einstein did not work directly on the atom bomb.

When I arrived at the wine bar, there was only one open table — dimly lit and intimate.

If you film outside on a grassy slope on a sunny day, that can be much better than the same dance in the biochemistry department's cluttered, dimly lit seminar room.

State Senator Diane Savino, a Staten Islander who sits with the Republican - allied Independent Democratic Conference, offered a metaphor while standing in the dimly lit Senate lobby as Heastie and Cuomo huddled below.

Bratton, speaking to reporters inside NYPD headquarters this afternoon, said the officer, Peter Liang, and his partner were on a routine patrol inside the Pink Houses in East New York, when they entered a dimly lit stairwell on the eighth floor.

The initial statement from police noted the stairwell where the shooting took place was «dimly lit.»

Kassia DeVorsey, an MIT - educated analytics specialist who was one of the «cave dwellers» in the Obama campaign's dimly - lit Chicago data office, estimated that Democratic campaigns around the country had about 100 data scientists working on their races, with another 100 doing work on independent expenditures and issue campaigns.

The unarmed Gurley, walking in a dimly - lit stairwell of the Louis Pink Houses, was shot once by rookie cop Peter Liang and died shortly after.

Most Labour MPs were dimly aware that this might mean real hardship for some of their poorest constituents; the cleverer ones were conscious of Osborne's introductory point — that these were the sort of changes a Labour government should have made, but funked.

For a few heady weeks this summer change seemed at least dimly possible, as people raged about reform of the electoral system, of the whip's office, an elected second chamber...

There were few MPs sitting among the audience in the dimly lit hall.

Places to eat and drink ◆ Taps Bar — This slick and dimly - lit bar is the perfect place to impress contacts and friends at conference.

«This is terrible, and it's everything that is wrong with the way that we police,» Williams told Capital today after the fatal shooting of Akai Gurley, 28, in a dimly lit stairwell at the Louis Pink Houses in East New York.

However, Farage's recent Party Election Broadcast, in which he can be seen with a pint of beer in a dimly - lit pub, has been greatly successful.

A dimly - lit restaurant bedded discreetly in Westminster's InterContinental, serving American barbecue - style meaty dishes — their signature ribs are a carnivore's dream (but a business luncher's messy nightmare) and the menu of pulled meats is a treat.

The headquarters» dimly lit lobby features black - and - white pictures of five Glenwood - owned residential buildings — The Barclay, The Stratford, The Lucerne, The Pavilion and The Fairmont — that have collectively given at least $ 2.2 million to state politicians.

At PS 163 on East 180th Street off Webster Avenue only 78 voters had cast their vote, as of 2 p.m. Perhaps the low numbers can be party explained by the fact that station is dimly and well hidden.

The ominous power of propaganda screams like this throughout the dimly - lit exhibition, although the curators have been careful to approach it as a «neutral» process of communicating information.

Fitzroy Lodge in Lambeth is like so many boxing clubs — the crooked little door hidden under the railway arches, the musty smell when you go in, and the bags and the ring dimly lit by a flickering light.

It's hard to properly appreciate what is happening when you're in the thick of it and trying to double - source results, but dimly in the back of our minds we're aware that America just voted its first black president, and that today is a genuinely historic day.

I dimly recall reading somewhere that, even between men, there is a huge pay gap and this correlates (roughly) to levels of testosterone.

Early Saturday evening I was walking up 18th Street in Adams Morgan (DC) and stopped off at Columbia Station to catch the end of a jazz set, which turned out to be a good test for the camera and microphone, since I was sitting on a partially covered patio in the bright outdoors and shooting into a much more dimly lit space inside.