noonday

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It was considered one of the eight bad thoughts of monastic life and characterized as the Noonday Demon.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2022

Andrew Solomon, a professor of clinical psychology at Columbia and a lecturer in psychiatry at Yale, is the author of “The Noonday Demon” and “Far From the Tree.”

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2021

Director Peter Medak’s documentary looks back at the harrowing experience Medak had trying to make the disastrous 1974 pirate comedy “Ghost in the Noonday Sun” with Sellers as the star.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2020

He remained in Paris after he left the army, working for the small Noonday Press before George Plimpton asked him to join his new Paris Review.

From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2017

Where the mount like molten brass is, Down beneath fern-feather'd passes Noonday dew in cool green grasses   Gleams on him by Mooni's marge.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir