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But he also succeeds in making a complicated subject compelling, and if you want to know how to insert drama into dusty old economics, imagine Peston on a busy Parisian street at dusk , sweeping into shot like Bernard Henri-Levy in a flowing coat and floppy scarf, pronouncing the phrase "SAVAGE COLOSSAL AUSTERITY" to the camera.
Fliers who attempt the jump points at Glacier, Zion and Yosemite often fly in the early dawn or late dusk to avoid rangers, who can arrest, tase and fine jumpers thousands of dollars, or land them in jail for a few months.
In recent years, huge advances in digital cameras have enabled photographers to work in much lower light, capturing animals at dusk without artificial lighting, or immortalising fast-moving, never-before-seen events in nature.
But the road was calling, just as it had done yesterday, when neither of us had wanted to leave Dar Ayniwen, a beautiful house in Marrakech's Palmeraie suburb, where we had lazed on the terrace and sipped gin and tonics as the call to prayer echoed through the dusk.
And when dusk came there was always a slightly odd light… You're making me brace myself already.
Behind her, as dusk falls, families ready makeshift camps for the night, a Syrian flag can be seen hanging amid the trees, and children play with balls in the very limited space.
He went hiking every day, and I'd watch for him coming back at dusk and it only struck me after a few days that he might be a substitute for something – that nightly family feeling; that sense of expected, and fulfilled, return.
At dusk on 10 September last year, a few weeks after the juvenile birds had successfully left their nest, the 9.5g tag on Sky's leg abruptly stopped transmitting.
And then, in the evening, when the trees seem almost sinister in the intensity of their stillness, the low sun shoots streaks of ambers and gold from bank to bank before the dusk rises up from the forest floor and the shadows begin to stretch and everything turns to indigo.
Eating Marines rations of dry biscuits and turkey paste in the desert, followed by use of a particularly inventive latrine at dusk was a great bonding experience.
As dusk fell, he taught me useful knots, how to erect a tarpaulin and how to make fire in nine different ways (without matches or lighters).
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The primary grammatical function of "dusk " is as a noun , referring to the period of time at the end of the day just before night. As Ludwig AI confirms, the phrase is grammatically correct and widely used. It can also function as a verb, meaning to become dark.
Expression frequency: Very common
