Sentences with word «dimness»

In 1597, the botanist John Gerard referred to cayenne as «ginnie or Indian pepper» in his herbal, and in his influential herbal of 1652, Nicholas Culpepper wrote that cayenne was «this violent fruit» that was of considerable service to «help digestion, provoke urine, relieve toothache, preserve the teeth from rottenness, comfort a cold stomach, expel the stone from the kidney, and take away dimness of sight.»

Usually, the first sign of progressive retinal atrophy is night blindness, including a reluctance to go outside at night or to navigate unfamiliar areas in dimness or darkness.

The auto LED indicator adjusts the brightness to ambient light; this will avoid too much brightness at night and extra dimness during the day.

Office workers will find it perfectly acceptable for indoor use, but its relative dimness make it suitable for only the occasional outdoor excursion.

The ZenFone's dimness made it difficult to see the screen outdoors, especially in direct sunlight.

Although the artists in Resonance confront us with fearful depths lurking beneath our exterior, their images beckon us to fathom its darkness and arise to find strength, clarity and the recognition that without this palpable dimness light would not exist.

The bats were progressing, leaving rainforests where slice and - consume logging was causing huge dimness, closing out daylight and keeping the organic product they ate from developing.

As they trudge through the woods, they are hoping that the days after the first freeze will bring «nothing more in the sky than the welcome gray dimness, no sun and only cold.»

Then he and Schoendienst headed for the shrouded dimness of the Tudor Room in one corner of the hotel.

Karen Meech of the University of Hawaii and colleagues suggest that its strange dimness means it did not form in the Oort cloud at all.

We first noted that in 1998, in the unexpected dimness of certain supernova explosions which told us they were further away than we expected.

Although Proxima Centauri's dimness provides the planet with a balmy climate, the star is prone to outbursts of harsh X-ray and ultraviolet radiation, which could damage any chance of life on the planet — X-rays hit the surface 400 times more often than those from the sun pummel Earth.

Such a fuzzy future for assessing patients based on different abilities — rather than the current criteria, which are based on no demonstrable abilities — introduces more ethical dimness.

That's because dimness signals the biological clock that it's time to wind down, while bright light says «daytime!»

Orange is known not out dimness.

There are serious miscalculations throughout The Lone Ranger, starting with the casting: Hammer plays the masked hero with the dim enthusiasm (or enthusiastic dimness) of Brendan Fraser at his most stilted; Depp's Tonto is an ethnically dubious repurposing of his popular Jack Sparrow character, more stoic but equally eccentric; and Helena Bonham Carter, as a brothel madam with a lethal fake leg, does little but add to the cartoon grotesquerie.

Yes, the boys are back in Zoolander 2 — and there's a new trailer to showcase their stultifying dimness.

Berg, making her fiction debut, and her director of photography, Rob Hardy, push Every Secret Thing into the overcast dimness that has become a color - palette requirement for cinematic narratives in which loved ones get murdered or go missing.

At the start, a lone car approaches along a snow - covered road bordered by dark forest, its golden headlights warming the blue - white dimness.

THE DVD by Bill Chambers Fox presents Fever Pitch on DVD in a 2.31:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer (fullscreen sold separately) that fluctuates between film - like and overtreated; there is a constant dimness, but chalk that up to cinematographer Matthew F. Leonetti, whose movies always make you think you have cataracts.

In frigid, pre-dawn dimness, small figures on an otherwise empty South Bronx street carry or roll bulging backpacks toward a school door that will not open for another 20 minutes.

Four daytime running lights, the new Genesis signature, winked at us in the early dimness, as if advising us of the three - hour drive ahead.

The moment Peter walked into the library for the first time, passing from the blazing sun of a North Carolina August into the cool dimness of its narrow corridors, its miles of shelving, its million and a half books, he felt at home.

Easels are also prominent: From 1758, Hogarth sits near his, sketching an image, surrounded by dimness.

My larger issue is screen dimness.

But Perfect Selfie, a feature of the Honor 8's camera app, improves it a tad: it captures your face from multiple angles in order to mitigate dimness.

We are told by Scripture that in the Kingdom this world's dimness of sight will be replaced by, as the old theology said it, «beatific vision.»

The menace is simmering just beneath the surface (The way he eyes Jane and Amy when they all first meet is all the foreshadowing we need), much in the same way that Javier Aguirresarobe's foggy cinematography (done no favors but plenty of harm by the extra dimness that comes with post-conversion 3 - D) portends unknown things in the shadows of empty tract houses.

Other problem plague the screen, including its relative dimness and poor viewing angle.

The Paschal candle sputtered in the dimness.

However, God fully knows us with no limitations of dimness or unconsciousness.

Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

11 The aesthetic intensity of feeling that they enjoyed is deposited in the stream of events, so that when the immediacy of their own experiencing is past they continue to «survive» in varying degrees of vividness or dimness in the feelings of later entities.

For what these poor unsuspecting wretches found there amid the din and dimness of the Fabulous Borum was hardly the same game they'd been training for in Beijing and Sydney and Montevideo and all those other hotbeds of roundball.

Take advantage of the convenient remote control, which allows you to power the insert on and off, alter the dimness, and adjust the thermostat.

The dimness of the star means that, despite the planets» close orbits, all seven could conceivably harbor liquid water on their surfaces.

As for the employees themselves, how is it their dimness didn't reveal itself during the hiring process or in their job performance, coming to light only belatedly in this strange, coerced encounter with their employer?

The sun dimmed, and the dimness lasted for more than a year.

Whenever a planet passes between the Earth and a star, the brightness of that star temporarily dims, enabling scientists to measure the dimness and determine its size, speed, and other features.

Some of the star's dimness is probably due to sunspots which often lead to stellar flaring.

The vastness of space, combined with the inherent brightness of stars and the much smaller size and dimness of the planets that orbit them, makes finding and observing them an incredibly difficult task to achieve.

Standard cosmological models of the universe predict the existence of hundreds of dwarf galaxies in orbit around the Milky Way, but their dimness and small size makes them incredibly difficult to find, even in our own «backyard».

The image quality isn't great — it suffers from graininess, oversaturated colors, and dimness — but at least you completists have your «lost» footage.

But with the dimness of images being a big problem with 3D projection, I'm afraid for the outcome here.

While the dimness of the images works in «Horror Land,» it's pretty disappointing in «Adventure Land» and «Fantasy Land.»