twilit


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Synonyms for twilit

lighted by or as if by twilight

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But Hunt knows better; her narrative worlds are twilit realms suffused with dark possibility, in which jarring connections and overpowering transformations prove the rule.
the twilit sky upon that distant world." Don't miss this year's rare opportunity to witness that spectacle.
It is a twilit conclusion to an enterprise that started out expressing what Emerson would have called "morning wishes" ([1867] 1994, 178).
Lardner chose instead a cathartic and unchanging fantasy world of twilit fields and sun-soaked afternoons, where boys could play and, at least in these stories, live forever beyond suffering or change.
After washing their hands and pumping on hand sanitizer, they waited while a nurse punched in a code to another door that opened directly into a twilit techno-womb where twenty to thirty babies, some weighing less than one pound, were kept alive.
go beyond carnal oneness with the other, which to a twilit awareness of
They waxed poetic about misty mountains, raspberry-hued sunrises and twilit baseball games.
stark-light-globes mark its outline, contrast the twilit harbour.
The writings of Paul Celan have, after all, been a lifelong inspiration (phrases from Celan's poems float across Kiefer's twilit mythosphere)--but then so too have ancient myth, alchemy, the philosophy of Ernst Bloch, and the Holocaust.
A bronze deer freezes mid-leap out front, and rainy twilit parking lines give off geometric glow.
Arkanar is "a twilit, ignorant country, mired in a bloody quagmire of avarice and conspiracy." But it is also a land of gentry, spies, shopkeepers, courtiers, craftsmen, bandits, barons, aristocrats--and a few men of intellect and creativity, who are regularly abused by the fiercely anti-intellectual aristocracy.
Their latest bout was squared in a twilit Sharjah in astonishing circumstances, but in the six months since, little brother has become a world champion, surprised England on their turf, and was surprised by South Africa on home turf.
Scott's "distancing" translations of Anne Hebert, Simon argues, accentuated through literalism the twilit mystical qualities of her lyrics, utterly alien from his own mandarin style, thus widening the gulf between the cultures.