Sentences with phrase «on twilight»

She used acrylic paints on reclaimed wood to create these gorgeous magnolia flowers on a twilight blue background.

And what are all these variations on twilight?

The event launches Peter Davidson's new book The Last of the Light: About Twilight, a meditation on twilight in Western arts and imagination.

Go on a twilight forest walk as nocturnal creatures awaken.

The Last of Robin Hood, which focuses on the twilight of Errol Flynn's life and career, is an uneven mix of brilliant performances and an inert, aimless story.

The find was made as part of a five year project at Binchester Roman Fort which is shedding new light on the twilight years of the Roman Empire.

Especially since from now until October 27, 2013 you can save $ 10 on Elmo ticket admission which includes the 2nd visit for free or save $ 25 on all twilight tickets.

Not exact matches

Microsoft entered the twilight of Ballmer's tenure as the most successful and wealthiest desktop - software company the world had ever seen — at a time when the world had moved on to search engines, social networking, mobile devices, and cloud computing.

This feast of a day on the riveris heavily salted with gulls.And the leaf - pared birch on the shorelineis lightly peppered with crows, And from dawn's appetizerto the entree of noon, to the hungering sweetnessof twilight's dessert.All is perfectly seasoned, everything, everywhere, perfectly....

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint - Jacques: No one in the twentieth century wrote more magnificent English, or prose of a purer purple; but, while his travel memoirs are now more widely appreciated than ever, his only novel (or novella, really) tends to be overlooked — a deftly constructed, economically proportioned, perfectly satisfying little tale about the small twilight world of a fictional French Caribbean island on its last day.

That last drink you served, With its icy condensation on the glass, is melting in this twilight In a way that is troubling.

«A former man who became a woman and is now a lesbian, Ms. Bornstein has constructed a series of mystically connected monologues in which she embodies a host of characters on different levels in the twilight zone of sexual identity: a male impersonator, a «she - male» drag queen, and five others who have, through surgery and sartorial camouflage, crossed the gender line from both directions.»

Voskuil reprints a two - page chart showing how mainline Protestantism slipped and almost disappeared from Newsweek and Time coverage by the end of the period, though in the false twilight of the «50s Henry Luce was still putting establishmentarians like Henry Knox Sherrill, Henry Pitney Van Dusen, Theodore Adams, Franklin Clark Fry and Eugene Carson Blake on the cover of Time.

I sing old songs in the cold twilight as we walk, thinking of what to make for supper, my voice thin but the stars are coming out, the pines stark as black lace on the sky.

Why do people week after week return to their hard chairs before dull pulpits to hear a man thrash about in a limbo of words relating vaguely to some topic snatched desperately on Saturday night from the minister's own twilight zone?

Only an hour before, in the twilight of the Sabbath, when the day's holiness is prolonged into the weekdays that follow, I had discoursed on the Torah reading of the week, Numbers 13 - 14, the story of the scouts sent to evaluate the land of Canaan, who report that the land is very good but the challenge of its inhabitants is overwhelming.

4 ««These are the Lord's appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times: 5The Lord's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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.

To whomever God is «real and ever close,» death is, indeed, a «station on the road to freedom,» even «the highest feast,» because one who acted responsibly may now step from the twilight of all our actions into the light of God.

But in Mather's comment on «the almost Epidemical Extinction of true Christianity... in the Nations» is revealed his sense of living in the twilight of an era.

And even though this was the twilight period of aristocracy, still the conception of learning verged on the ideal of universal knowledge, and was almost the exclusive privilege of the upper classes, automatically conferring prestige and social status on the educated man.

He's in the twilight of his career and deserves to be on the pitch.

Running to the 18th tee to ensure officials did not call the game as twilight quickly turned into night, Lincicome drilled a birdie putt — her second straight bird, fifth on the back nine, and eighth of the day, along with one bogey — for the W under floodlights to capture the weather - shortened, 54 - hole season - opener.

Despite being well into the twilight years of his career, Italian legend Francesco Totti was just as influential for AS Roma last season, leading them to second place in Serie A with his number ten shirt on his back.

After spending nearly two decades on Merseyside, the Reds» skipper opted to move to LA Galaxy to see out the twilight of his career.

As has been regurgitated on a thread to thread basis Arsenal are realistically two quality signings (Lacazette / Benzema, Bender \ Krychowiak) from being a serious European football power, why would Wenger in the twilight of his career not spend the money thats readily available?

However, sticking around while a team rebuilds, especially one that could be on the verge of cleaning house in the front office and with the coaching staff, isn't how most quarterbacks in their late 30s with two Super Bowl rings would choose to spend the twilight of their 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.

Blessed with that sublime defense and saddled with the political nightmare of a legendary quarterback in the twilight of his career, the Broncos made winning ugly a habit on the way to their fifth straight AFC West title.

King stood on the lawn at twilight, watching Carillo's father, Anthony, do his gardening.

That Barber has returned to his origins, performing on live radio before a third generation of listeners, has made for a happy twilight in his life.

Just as the Falcons don't want rookies who haven't learned to act like professionals yet on, or off the field, they surely don't want a WR in the twilight of a good career who'll just draw attention to himself instead of making decisions that benefit the team.

Although he has moved on and was entering the twilight of his career he was still popular and the official Chelsea twitter account shared the sentiment that we all have in wishing him the speediest recovery possible.

Jose Mourinho's side are also intent on strengthening the full - back positions amid concerns over both Antonio Valencia and Ashley Young, who are entering the twilight of their respective careers.

I had tried to picture my father being best friends with a wild man, who danced on the hood of his hot rod at twilight.

Kortright Centre (Woodbridge): wagon rides, Hands - On Exotics, balloon artist, Maple Syrup by Lamplight twilight tour and campfire event

In the twilight of night, bright spotlights cast warm glows on placid faces.

Snuggles, nothing like snuggling before bedtime with our twilight turtle shinning on the ceiling.

He encouraged women to have natural births during «knock them out - drag them out - twilight sleep» period when mothers were tied up in large beds and had helmets on to protect their heads when they would hit on the sides of the bed due to the medication they were given.

Images of him on foreign trips with Fox, combined with odd stories about Werritty claiming to be an «adviser» to the defence secretary, built up a picture of a man in the twilight, just offstage, having the air of the powerful.

Stephen Crabb's warm words on devolution, or promises of money for rail improvements after the next election, doesn't alter the fact that on his watch more than huge swathes of the Welsh workforce have entered a Tory twilight zone of insecurity, low pay and under - employment.

«Because of the pride on how we tackled terrorism and defeated Boko Haram terrorists through our gallant troops and partners in the twilight of the previous administration, which is the reason I have insisted on open and public trial of my stewardship rather than secret trial in the court as being canvassed by my prosecutors.»

«Because of the pride on how we tackled terrorism and defeated Boko Haram terrorists through our gallant troops and partners in the twilight of the previous administration, that is the reason I have insisted on open and public trial of my stewardship rather than secret trial in the court as being canvassed by my prosecutors.»

Evidence has also been gathered of the existence of a twilight, which would indicate the presence of a thin high air more rarefied than prevails on our highest mountain peaks.

A member of the twilight team with equipment used on the dive.

Laurence Scott was born in the twilight zone between generation Xers and millennials, coming of age as social media emerged on the web and changed the world.

«You watch twilight come, nighttime, you see things happening, you understand what's going on.

Last Christmas, on a visit to New York City, I was walking past the Central Park ice skating rink at twilight.

From dark clear sites on Earth, zodiacal light looks like a faint diffuse white glow seen in the night sky after the end of twilight, or before dawn.

At twilight on a good day, Mercury briefly appears as a flickering dot on the horizon.