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

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

He has returned to better understand his son, who left his home state of Kentucky as a young man for a life his family could never fathom and conveniently kept in a half-light.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2019

I hear a rustling nearby and squint in the half-light, but see nothing.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone