solstice

He finds himself alone with the "incoherence" of his self-appraisal of cameraderie and leadership at the solstitial moment of American conquest of the world.

If baseball bespoke a pastoral image, it did so on fields turning brown under a solstitial sun--not verdant fields of the pastoral model.

Some deserts have solstitial rains (Mediterranean deserts with winter rains, and tropical deserts with summer rains), while others have equinoctial rains (subtropical deserts with rains in the spring and autumn); both types of rainfall regime may be unimodal, as in the two first examples, or bimodal, as in equatorial deserts with spring and autumn rainfall.

The Pacific totem pole might he an emblem for a New Age, marking the primacy of Nature over man--a new animistic north-south dialectic that follows a biological, solstitial, rather than an historical imperative.

For those who'd rather indulge a solstitial impulse of "Bah, Humbug!" than go caroling, I recommend two literary biographies of poets who led spectacularly awful lives.

Other traditional peoples, however, observed its solstitial excursions ceremonially and equated the solstice limits with seasonal homes of the Sun.

Despite these solstitial references, I did not deduce that Sun's winter-solstice retreat was Sand Dollar's home until recently, when I reexamined a 1983 paper by aerospace scientist Tom Hoskinson.