half-light

• “I tiptoed back to my rooms in the misty half-light and prepared for bed as the town began to stir.”

  Simon & Schuster: Exit the Actress

• “We lay there in the half-light and the quiet, breathing.”

  Simon & Schuster: Shortcut Man

• “She stood in front of me in the half-light of the bedroom.”

  Simon & Schuster: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery

• “He smiled, and though his eyes had been replaced long ago by visual sensors that glowed dimly red in the half-light, I imagined that I could yet detect a spark of that charismatic man who had won the hearts of thousands even as he brought about their destruction.”

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• “If you've ever woken up in a state of fear and dread in the half-light hour before sunrise, then you know what depression is.”

  Andrew Solomon - An interview with author

• “I stood in the half-light of the glowing canopy of stars, mesmerized.”

  Fictionaut: Night and the spell that gave me peace

• “I could only think of the wretched cows swaying along in queasy, jolting half-light, then suddenly a lurch and a terrific violence as the world turned upside down.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bird Cloud

• “The cranky-looking figure with large spectacles and wispy hair and beard was never a household name; nor were the bulk of the figures whose work he rescued from the dusty half-light with his Anthology of American Folk Music in 1952.”

  The Guardian: Harry Smith issues his famous Anthology

• “The bird circles endlessly in my room, in the half-light, comes close, bringing the harsh carnival of his eye to mine, causing my neck to fall down in slices of yellow, my shoulder to reveal the five sleeping armies.”

  Fictionaut: The Bird

• “Sure, commercial broadcasters would have held the government to account, but this society-redefining legislation would have been played out in half-light.”

  The Guardian: Why Cameron could be praying for the BBC strike to go ahead

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