Sentences with phrase «long twilight»

This is surely a victory and a morale booster in what John McCain harkening back to cold war rhetoric called our «long twilight struggle.»

And so one might be tempted to think that, in the long twilight struggle between Athens and Sparta, between civilization and barbarism, Sparta is winning after all.

Now we are engaged in another «long twilight struggle,» as John F. Kennedy called the Cold War.

In these Norwegian environments, deepened by the long twilights, human emotions are exaggerated.

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He personifies a long but circumscribed historical episode, apart from whose ambiguities and energies he is unintelligible: that twilight interval stretching between the late Renaissance and contemporary secular modernity.

In those moments I am willing even to indulge his somewhat romanticized view of himself: a figure in the twilight, at the end of a long journey through a large valley and into wooded hills, perhaps pausing on a low ridge that affords him a last narrow glimpse of the paths he has followed, watching the evening descending over the mountains and down toward darkening lakes and fields, trying to fix in memory the shape of a world soon to be lost in night.

As I sit out of my porch with twilight long past, the darkness of the sky pure and unyielding, I breath in the night and hold it in my lungs until my chest aches.

With that, Clemens turned serious and went back to work, picking up where he left off lastfall, making the twilight linger a little longer.

Still, back in the real world (or should I say twilight zone) this is, and has been for too long a time not been the case at AFC (Arsene's Failing Club)..

For a long time he was one of the finest strikers in the Liga MX, but chose to return to his boyhood club in January to see out the twilight of his career.

As twilight falls, passersby ogle the regimented testosterone on field, though not for long: The spectacle of men bonding to face the realities of barrio life is fairly common, and it rarely lasts.

While John Terry remains an integral part of the Chelsea backline, the Blues will have to start thinking about bringing in his long term successor to Stamford Bridge soon as the 35 - year old is entering the twilight of his career.

But as he approaches the twilight of his career, the goals fading and his Selección Argentina days long past, he will follow fellow legend Javier Zanetti through the San Siro exit door.

Not that long ago «twilight sleep» was introduced as an anesthetic during childbirth.

May 19: The moon closely meets Jupiter, bright in the south - east at twilight and easily visible all night long.

«Moon Over Mars: I snapped a pic of one of Mars» moons, Phobos, in the twilight sky over Gale crater,» NASA's Curiosity team announced on the mission's Twitter page @MarsCuriosity, writing as the rover itself, on Wednesday (Sept. 26)-- the same day Curiosity made its longest drive yet.

Sounds more like a twilight zone for a few hours before sleeping, I like the idea, very romantic too, perhaps that was an added contributory factor to the more relaxed and longer sleep

what if they made a twilight zone episode as long as a movie, and then didn't tell you that that's what it was... then you would have this movie: mysterious, romantic, childlike and wondrous.

Australian rock legend Nick Cave is the subject for this semi-documentary look at a musician at the twilight of his long and esteemed career, capturing his mindset as it exists in the moment and the years that led up to the man he is today.

With the 3DS slipping into its twilight years, Monster Hunter is no longer being shackled to the ageing handheld, setting its sights on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in early 2018.

Other movies have plumbed the issues of growing older with grace, dignity and a real sense of the humor and humanity that can be found in the walk into the long shadows of the twilight years.

Mitchell doesn't skimp on that footage, instead allowing the 80 year - old director's indomitable spirit and quick wit to guide us through his twilight years (he still writes feverishly, in long hand).

He leaves her to walk to the long route home down an empty road as twilight approaches.

Here, then, are three smaller films in fast succession caught in the twilight zone of instant forgetfulness and doomed to spend eternity as either the film that was the long lonesome whistle stop for someone's career, or the promising picture that pointed the way to bigger and brighter things.

Michael Haneke's portrait of the twilight of a long marriage is poignant, haunting, and refreshingly original.

There are too many to mention here, but examples include free twilight CPD programmes to all staff within an alliance; placement schemes for senior leaders to gain experience of working in other schools and contexts; a mentoring programme for newly - employed heads; developing innovative programmes for School Direct trainees; SLEs offering one - day diagnostics as well as longer deployments focused on increasing attainment and progress in specific subjects; and the establishment of cross-alliance research groups meeting regularly to develop action research.

Back to the story: that evening, after Tibb first appeared to me, I hared off in the long spring twilight, heading home to Malkin Tower.

Walter de la Mare's fiction from between the World Wars has long been lost in a lonely, twilight world of half - obscurity.

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Retirement is becoming more difficult for Canadians because they're living longer and need larger retirement nest eggs to fund their twilight years.

Older dogs like humans find it difficult to control their bladders for long periods as they enter their twilight years and one of the more common causes for adult dogs who won't stop peeing in the house are behavioural issues.

Whether they came into our lives as puppies or were adopted in their twilight years, we want to keep them comfortable and healthy for as long as possible.

All the information you need to help your dog both to live longer and remain young at heart, enabling you both to enjoy your pet's precious twilight years.

The 3DS has come a long way from its shaky beginnings, and with the advent of the Switch the little portable has entered the twilight of its life.

Arcade Archives — Garou: Mark of the Wolves (Hamster Corporation, $ 7.99)-- Part of the long - running Fatal Fury series, Garou was released in the twilight years of the Neo Geo's lifespan.

Once at twilight and once again in the dark, Ilana Halperin leads small groups up the trail to present a program that considers transformation stretched beyond even the scope of Rip's phenomenally long nap.

Your eyes need long minutes to adjust to the twilight, and to discern in Ofili's low - contrast paintings scenes of lovers in tropical bungalows, but also soldiers on horseback and brutalized bodies hanging from trees.

The view camera demands longer exposures, and I began looking into the oncoming twilight and seeing things that the small cameras either couldn't handle or didn't present in significant enough quality,» Meyerowitz explains.

15, Maurizio, there has been changes in dominant winds, but my take on the greater ice melt is a flat out warmer atmosphere (causing these winds to change) which shows itself as a brighter twilight during the long night, especially when there is a cooling on the surface.

The next significant step is for Antarctican regulars to notice a substantial increase in brightness at greater lasting intervals during the long night daily twilights, as experienced by High Arctic habitants of this world.

In polar latitudes the seasons consist of a short summer and a long winter; this division is based primarily on sunlight, as there is continuous darkness all winter and continuous daylight or twilight all summer.

The tools available to scientists wanting to study twilight - zone ecosystems have come a long way since the days of William Beebe and his Bathysphere.

Somewhat like baseball statistics — you know: «the longest game ever played during rain in the twilight pitched by a left - hander from Cleveland»; that sort of thing — stats about her are being developed.

An amendment to the Act established TQ Long - Term Care policies to encourage private citizens to establish security for their twilight years.