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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

Coughing, she squinted into the dimness in front of her, then looked behind.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau