Word: twilit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walls, some of Lamotte's paintings were as bright and cheerful as summer chintz; others seemed like twilit windows looking out on the rainswept streets, the darkening alleys, the lonely deserted shops that had caught his eye. Next week 36 Lamotte illustrations will appear in a $12.50 Limited Editions volume of Nana; light of hand but heavy with atmosphere, they are enough to give anyone that last-time-I-saw-Paris feeling...
...Great Divorce, Author Lewis, who teaches medieval literature at Oxford, takes himself and a load of jostling, quarreling passengers from a twilit, drizzly city of endless streets to a fresh meadow at the foot of a cloudy mountain range. "The last thing I wish is to arouse factual curiosity about the details of the after-world," Lewis warns. But the grey city, he realizes, was Hell; he and his bus-mates are spirits on an excursion. Damnation is not final; they may stay in Heaven if they choose...
Through the twilit Ligurian Sea, into that sea which Italians lately called Mare Nostrum, the Roma sailed with the companion battleships Italia and Vittorio Veneto, six cruisers and several destroyers. From Taranto, the Italian base in the south, the older, smaller battleships Caio Duilio and Andrea Doria, two cruisers and a destroyer were sailing through the same darkness to the same destination: Malta...
...Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin, and pauper-poor is S. J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...