The word "noontide" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe the time around noon, especially the period of greatest heat. For example, "The noontide sun bore down heavily as the couple walked through the park."
While often avid for up-to-date technology, it churns academic postminimalist and conceptual aesthetics, continually resetting art's clock to a noontide — the nineteen-sixties, more or less — of nebulously utopian afflatus.
Just as the California sunshine somehow loses its relaxing suffusion and hardens into a cruel noontide, so, by an irony that Cholodenko may not fully have intended, the climax of "The Kids Are All Right" grows suddenly humorless, and close to vengeful, in its moralizing glare.
The very notion of a daylong push along Forty-seventh Street is funny and metaphoric — a soul's slow-motion hurtle from the U.N.'s posh environs to the desolation of Hell's Kitchen, with the diamond block between Fifth and Sixth Avenues providing a splash of noontide sparkle.
As I dolorously masticate upon my noontide sandwich at my desk, this particularly well-illustrated blogpost on "elevenses" at Lord's has raised unusual levels of jealousy.
Have the advance publicity, the dire warnings, the environmental polemics finally come to this... a sequence of days so blisteringly hot that the sweat dripped into the keyboard, the ice tray needed constant replenishing, the windows were opened wide at the cool extremities of the day and curtains, shutters and blinds closed as for noontide in the Mediterranean?
Six Organs of Admittance is Ben Chesny, who just released his third mysterious album, "Dark Noontide" (Holy Mountain).
Helen and the Trojan War may have caused a race of men to die out "in the noontide of its day" he says.
