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The darkening cinematic mood that has engulfed even 007 won't be allowed to bedim the Dolby Theatre.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2013

Ash and dust bedim the sky, blocking the sun's light.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

No men have done more to bedim the reputation of Washington, than Jefferson and Randolph.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School

While hot tears bedim the vision   Of dear friends who mourn his death, May they manifest decision   By the wondrous power of Faith, In belief that those who sleep Safe in Jesus shall not weep.

From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Thomas Cowherd

Now I recenter my immortal mind In the long sabbath of high self-content; Cleans'd from the fleshly Passions that bedim God's Image, Sister of the Seraphim.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

She even transmitted a soupçon of the old glow to the bedimmed office of the presidency in the television series “24.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2010

What is so sad as a Kim bedimmed?

From Time Magazine Archive

And now, among forgotten things, I find, like sleepers manifold, Pastels bedimmed, dark picturings, Young beauties, and the friends of old.

From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Agnes Lee

She would probably be seen wandering at late night, with bedimmed stars and bedraggled gauze, until some vigorous officer should lead her to the station-house for vagrancy.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various

Strength for to-day—that the weary hearts In the battle for right may quail not, And the eyes bedimmed with bitter tears In their search for light may fail not.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge

Keen rushed the light In quivering splendor from the writhen flash; Strong though they were, intolerable smote Their orbs of sight, and with bedimming glare Scorched up their blasted vision.

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Marcius Willson

There is not about Old Age one blessing more deserving gratitude to Heaven, than the gradual bedimming of memory brought on by years.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson

As cloth after cloth is removed, the light seems to grow brighter and stronger, and yet it has changed not, the change being in the removal of the confining and bedimming coverings.

From A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga by William Walker Atkinson

But he thought also of the beauty of Maria, of the sweetness of her smile, and of the tears of voiceless gratitude which he had seen bedimming the lustre of her bright eyes.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII by John Mackay Wilson

The daylight from the street then entered in a lurid stream, bedimming the glare of lamps and candles.

From A Love Episode by Émile Zola