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The former US Open champion, now moving into the twilight of her career, has long suffered from the pressure of home-crowd expectations.
In the place where so much intrigue and plots have been hatched over the years the education minister, Batt O'Keeffe, could be seen enjoying a pint of Guinness along with two others in the twilight atmosphere of the Lobby Bar.
The guide, he said, "helpfully" defines "evening civil twilight " as "'that period between sunset and total darkness when it is necessary to use artificial light to carry out most activities'.
White-faced figures in bright robes emerge from the twilight mist like ghosts from ancient times.
In their dreams (and in their long lunches with accountants and investors) the people farmers spin a trance-like spiel about a huge cohort of baby boomers soon to reach retirement, empty nesters without responsibilities, eager to wile away their twilight years in glorious consumption, placidly awaiting the dying of the light.
It is simply impossible, when faced with a page of its pastel-and-crayon blizzard, Snowman and child mid-flight, to ignore the pull of one's inner child - winter is suddenly alive again with twilight magic.
At twilight we walk out back together through the wet spring air and watch his assistant chefs turn hot stones in an open pit fire on to which they pile fresh clams, mussels, potatoes, fava beans, smoked pork, chicken and dough patties called chochoca made from baked potato, flour and pork lard.
But what makes it such an engrossing read is his almost hallucinatory attention to detail: the frozen-rigid clothes limiting his movements, the blisters in his fingers turning to ice, and the maddening wide-open twilight of the Antarctic.
Do you really feel comfortable about allowing the woman you love to make her choice of husband in a twilight of ignorance?
Its twilight tour of the city, which is the "most extreme" it offers, invites you to "meet the freaks that come out at night" as you explore a sci-fi-style bunker used by hackers, stumble through ruined buildings and drop by squat houses and industrial complexes.
From The Twilight of the Gods, in the scene where Ford imagines himself cuckolded by Falstaff; from Siegfried, in the horn calls and string curlicues before Fenton's aria in act three; and from Klingsor's music in Parsifal (as Martin Kettle, who was also in Milton Keynes, forewarned me) in the chromatic slithering that accompanies the drenched Falstaff at the start of the final act.
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The word "twilight " functions primarily as a noun , referring to the period of soft light in the sky after sunset or before sunrise. It can also function as an adjective , describing something related to or resembling twilight. As Ludwig AI confirms, the phrase is correct and usable in English.
Expression frequency: Very common
