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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

But tears, rough, manly tears, for the dead, Like dews of night bedim the glass, With throbbing hearts and lifted hands, We name him—“Dowling! of the Pass.”

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various

What though a few clouds bedim and deform "the innocent brightness of the new-born day?"

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

And there are toys for the girls and boys; And eyes that years bedim Grow strangely bright, with a youthful light, As they pluck from the pendant limb.

From Christmas Entertainments by Alice Maude Kellogg

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

The man behind the dead horse lifted himself and strained his bedimmed eyes, seeing the youthful rider shoot past in pursuit of the savages.

From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Burt L. Standish

Bel called upon his messenger, whom he sent to Ea in the ocean depths, saying: "My son Sin ... hath been grievously bedimmed".

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald Alexander Mackenzie

Louise was a beautiful and interesting girl, and the bloom of nineteen summers blushed on her cheeks; but they were now pale, and her dark eyes were bedimmed with tears.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various

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

It is precisely those superstitions which hang about your mind like bedimming clouds, my Romola, that make one great reason why I could wish we were two hundred leagues from Florence.

From Romola by George Eliot

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

Queen Anaïtis was very beautiful, even under his bedimming shadow.

From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell

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