half-light
Example Sentences
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The room where the picture was taken is the "Eighteenth Century Room" and the photo has a rather painterly quality, with its rich red and gold colours, the King portrayed in half-light and half-shadow.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2022
Somaliland’s half-light existence as an unrecognized state has complicated its pandemic response.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
The time period is that mystical half-light of history when Scandinavia was little more than scattered Norse villages; when wisdom was woven with superstition much as the land is interlaced with fjords.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
There is a palpable sadness that emanates from her image of a shell-shocked Lennon standing in the ghostly half-light, but she much preferred another portrait she made in the same session.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2020
The things on Jon’s work table glint in this half-light: the flat blade of a chisel, the head of a hammer.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
