It was high noon on a midsummer day, temperature 94 and rising, the sky a hot white bowl, the gulf breeze a hot wet breath.
This is, of course, more easily said than done: it takes the sort of sustained energy that can, like electricity on a sweltering midsummer day, simply fail and leave you stranded (there's no way of knowing for how long) in a smothering darkness.
The average Manhattan midsummer day is hot, rank and long.
On a midsummer Sunday Ned and Lucinda Merril, & Donald & Helen Westerhazy sat at the edge of the Westerhazys' pool in the hot sun talking about how they had drunk too much the night before.
By John Cheever The New Yorker, July 18 , 1964P. 28 On a midsummer Sunday Ned and Lucinda Merril, & Donald & Helen Westerhazy sat at the edge of the Westerhazys' pool in the hot sun talking about how they had drunk too much the night before.
It is remarkable to see the freedom that Potter was given as a writer: he had gloriously long, expansive, wordless sequences in which the Brobdingnagian kids just run about in the forest, or the gorgeous dappled clearings and fields: pure unfettered Ids, whooping and cackling and preparing to enact their midsummer day's nightmare.
The novel I am writing now is very long, and begins on midsummer day in 1895.
Although rising temperatures may be thinning the ice cap, visible from here on a clear day, swimmers here faced a midsummer day of pack ice in the bay and two inches of snow on the ground.
''I walk in here after the ride from the city, and I'm happy,'' says Ivory, stately and vigorous, unfazed by the 90-degree heat of a midsummer day.
On Midsummer Day (24 June) he posted it on a new website he'd created and embarked on the first step of a strange and demanding odyssey, in which he vows to record and post a different folk song every day for a year.
