The phrase "a long twilight" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an extended period of twilight, often evoking a sense of calm or reflection during the transition from day to night.
Example: "As the sun dipped below the horizon, we sat in silence, enjoying the beauty of a long twilight."
Alternatives: "an extended dusk" or "a prolonged evening glow".
These days Mr. Reagan faces a long, twilight struggle of a more intimate kind.
Still, pornographic magazines and their writers, may yet enjoy a long twilight.
The note throughout is one of alarm: "The trumpet summons us again"; "the burden of a long twilight struggle"; "that uncertain balance of terror".
We stood once more with the people of this continent through a long twilight struggle until finally, a wall tumbled down, and an Iron Curtain, too.
He called on Americans to "bear the burden of a long twilight struggle... against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself".
In his memorable inaugural address, he called upon Americans "to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle…against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself".
"Without the Cold War, what's the point of being an American?" As the long twilight struggle was finally winding down, Harry Rabbitt" Angstrom, novelist John Updike's late-twentieth-century Everyman, pondered that question.
Still, President Kennedy's "long twilight struggle," a bit of inaugural poetry that has been getting a lot of replay in the past few weeks, is an instructive analogy for a war that you don't so much fight as live.
And I suspect that it's not just the Iraq war, but what Frum and other neoconservatives like Norman Podhoretz mean by "the war" - some sort of long twilight struggle against an ill-defined enemy, variously known as "terrorists," "Islamofascists" or "extremists".
The movie now settles in for a long, lugubrious twilight of caretaking and soaring sentiment.
Vera had lived in this house for eight years, a long quiet twilight filled with card games at the neighborhood clubhouse, a bowling league, classic-movie channels.
