Sentence examples for liminal states from inspiring English sources

That the struggle to determine what we think so often takes place in liminal states, and in paradox and oxymoron.

Starting in the nineteen-seventies, Sondheim ushered in a new way of writing show tunes, one that favored liminal states — ambivalence, regret — over toe-tapping joy.

Liminal states are one of Wright's specialties, those free-fall zones between waking and sleep, sobriety and drunkenness, or, in Gwen's case, insanity and something that might be worse.

This book focuses on "disrupted and liminal states of consciousness", explains Haddon, on "what happens when consciousness fails or falters, what happens at the outer limits of consciousness – out-of-body experiences and teleportation, multiple personality, sleep and dreams, the slips of language and memory, anaesthesia and death".

"It's all about coming out of nothing, out of the ether into the physical world, which is actually a thread throughout a lot of my work these liminal states".

Melodies, textures, and structures would present themselves while she was in liminal states, then she'd wake up and lay down those tracks while they were still fresh in her head.

"It's in a liminal state of acceptance here.

The party that Mr. McConnell leads is in a liminal state, unsure how much change is necessary.

But she had a wonderful quality of being poised between child and woman, that great liminal state.

Succinct but mysterious, Desert Flowers belongs to a liminal state between sleeping and waking, night and day.

I prefer her apple cranberry, brimming with paper-thin apple slices and whole cranberries cooked down to a liminal state of not quite juice nor syrup.