dim awareness

Perhaps they have some dim awareness of light.

He had the dim awareness of a blanket being laid over him, and the light dimming; nothing more.

It was late twilight when I was aroused to a dim awareness of myself.

Paula had been told that lengthy exposure dimmed awareness of the odor.

It all began with a dim awareness.

He was somehow cut off from forming his ability into much of anything useful other than to use it for a bit of dim awareness.

She felt the sigh that breathed from her lips, as dim awareness came that she must leave this place.

I wondered if it was capable, somehow, of a dim awareness of the phenomenon of light.

For one thing, Chinese leaders have only a dim awareness of the unmanageability of a "modern enterprise system."

The city around him was now utterly silent, watching the miracle and slowly waking to a dim awareness of all that it might mean to Mars.

There was a dim awareness of hands working his body, hands pounding at his chest, heavy hands, not human.

A quick poll of the local population showed only dim awareness of the whereabouts of the confluence.

Five zombies stepped forward, including Philip, whose dim awareness had been unable to decide if he, too, had been called.

Many residents have only a dim awareness of the archipelago's volcanic origins and rare diversity of flora and fauna.

Nearly three weeks earlier, he stepped off the plane from China with only a dim awareness, he insists, of all the machinations taking place on his behalf.

Ansel gained the boy's side and touched the bruised forehead, probed, felt the answering, groggy response of dim awareness.

Mr. Bausch uncannily uses a few jots of dialogue to bring out both the disguises that people wear and their dim awareness of those disguises. "

This is false-a lie, actually-though at least it suggests some dim awareness that the reverse Robin Hood approach to tax cuts is politically and morally repugnant.

Her brain was numbed, a kind of sedation that left her with a dim awareness of the awftilness of it all, but checked her rising terror.

The dim awareness of the seed felt incorporation into this new intelligence as a mighty, expansive rush, like an orphaned beggar suddenly adopted by a wealthy and ancient family.

Had that been a half-psychic moment on his part, a dim awareness that another and far more dangerous connection between dead Naomi and dead Seraphim had already been formed?

"There had been no outward yearning among the residents of Fresno for such a device, nor even the dimmest awareness that such a thing was in the works," Mr. Nocera wrote.

Five of them return to Derry with only the dimmest awareness of why they are doing so, having almost completely forgotten virtually every aspect of their childhood (most notably their encounter with It).

Wanda, who had spent so many unhappy years trapped in a house of mirrors, now could move at will through her own ship, past the others lying in their fields, their dim awarenesses on standby.

And maybe, I thought, we were all circus mice, running around with only the dimmest awareness that God and all His heavenly host were watching us in our Bakelite houses through our ivy-glass windows.