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Mr. Broderick, himself a sometime movie star, brings a slyly funny air of noblesse oblige that dovetails amusingly with Jay’s pompous, blinkered dimness.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 19, 2026

Darkness, dimness and silence make “For Good” a marked contrast from the Technicolor effusiveness of “Wicked.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 19, 2025

Fifteen dancers sit in dimness, supervised by some kind of overseer.

From New York Times Feb. 7, 2024

Although the evolution and spectra of the event resembled a binary star merger, its dimness pointed to a star-planet merger instead.

From Science Magazine May 3, 2023

The High Blade’s gilded robe did not shine in the dimness of the doorstep.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman




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