Sentence examples for half twilight from inspiring English sources

Told in comically overdone prose ("We will take our pleasure in that half twilight that already is raping the night"), the couple's adventures are enhanced by a comely housemaid named Justiniana and threatened by Don Rigoberto's pre-adolescent and highly sexualized son, Fonchito, a cross between Tadzio and Lucifer whom his stepmother can't resist.

While the process took place, in the course of the next three days, Gossage moved between the library and the press, spending abbreviated intervals in his bed at the Halftone Hotel the kind of half-active, half-inactive twilight familiar to the parents of a newborn.

Yukinobu Hoshino, 15 years younger, is represented by his alter ego, Rainman, a split self inhabiting a twilight world, half-Tokyo, half-graveyard.

A high-country twilight had him half in shadow.

Then in the moments before half-time, a kind of footballing twilight zone that is not really the first half but definitely not the second, Blackpool struck a blow from which Cardiff never quite recovered.

They pass their endless twilight days in padded penthouses, half spa and half life-support module, urban spaces so intensely surveilled that one will never lose a button or drop a lit match.

Because of that — and despite achievements as a writer, explorer, documentary filmmaker and environmentalist — he seems today to occupy the cruel twilight reserved for half-forgotten TV personalities.

After passing filters, reads were trimmed and aligned to the reference horse genome derived from the Thoroughbred mare Twilight and its half-brother Bravo (EquCab2.70, Additional file 1A) [ 12].

Ahtila deploys some heavy omens – gathering twilight, toy guns, the half moon, the roiled sea, though presumably Death is an in-joke.

Almost as contemplative as a painting by Monet or Seurat is "Twilight, Indian Point," a half-hour video projection by Alan Michelson.

Rather, he is one of the many mistakes his half-brother Abdullah made in the twilight years of his reign.