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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

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

From all his wild compassions flown; Tears, strange till then, his eyes bedim; He wanders all alone.

From The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Friedrich Schiller

Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.

From Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

Indeed, my eyes were so bedimmed that I scarcely saw anything at all until we came around under the stern of a ship, when I heard the order ‘lay in your oars.’

From Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner by I. I. (Isaac Israel) Hayes

Old Jock, for once at any rate, had had his weather eye bedimmed.

From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by David W. Bone

And then, to his mortification, his head went unexpectedly down upon his arms, and a flood of tears bedimmed the radiance of his twenty-five-cent four-in-hand.

From Mr. Opp by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

What business have we to prophesy bedimming tears to those resplendent eyes? or that the talisman of that witching smile can ever lose its magic?

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson

It seemed as if never so thin a gauze had been drawn over the face of the sun, just faintly bedimming, without obscuring it.

From The Cardinal's Snuff-Box by Henry Harland

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

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