Unlike Tattooine, or Hogwarts, or even Camelot, Middle Earth is very self-important, especially when people are deadpanning lines like: "By nightfall, these hills will be swarming with orcs".
Suppose, it was suggested to Mr. Schlafert, the lawyer, that a young African like Mr. Camara ran into a youth like Mr. Richter after nightfall.
There are effective middle-ground positions, too, between schmaltz and art, like Mr. Haden's "Nightfall" and Don Sebesky's "Bittersweet," which has a ring of the Charlie Parker With Strings records of the 1950's.
Damaged Souls The competition film "Harry, He's Here to Help" is reminiscent of French noirish meditations like "Garde a Vue" or those portraits of the damaged souls of the bourgeoisie made famous by the director Claude Chabrol, pictures like "Just Before Nightfall".
I loved its acutely observed depiction of southern American manners – of ladies "who bathed before noon … and by nightfall were like soft tea-cakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum".
When the Next Big One arrives, spreading across oceans and continents like the sweep of nightfall, causing illness and fear, killing thousands or maybe millions of people, it will be signaled first by quiet, puzzling reports from faraway places — reports to which disease scientists and public health officials, but few of the rest of us, pay close attention.
22 years since I first opened those pages, I still love to turn this description over in my mouth, it is just the most perfect prose: Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum".
The Summer Triangle still dominates the high meridian at nightfall as Saturn, like a yellowish bright star of mag 0.6, hovers low in Britain's SW sky where it is swamped by the evening twilight later in October.
Globes of weaverbird nests dangled precariously from shrubs, like lanterns waiting to be lit come nightfall.
In my home country, Indonesia, many towns organize their own groups of citizen police, like the watchmen who make rounds from nightfall until dawn.
It's similar to Before Nightfall because that was more like a band as well.
