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Recent Examples of crepuscular
The Land at Night Richard Tuohy, Dianna Barrie, 2024, Australia, 16mm, 14m
Against a dense, sinister soundtrack of drones, bells, night creatures, and electric hum, flashes of illumination reveal a trembling crepuscular landscape in Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie’s The Land at Night.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
The star attractions are Goya’s etchings, displayed in a large, crepuscular room that protects these delicate artworks from light damage.
—Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
The encounter happened around dusk, when crepuscular creatures like brown bears tend to be more active.
—Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
Hunt Deer at Midday During the Rut or Severe Cold
Of course there are exceptions to every rule, and there are times when deer fall off the crepuscular wagon and move during midday.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 6 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crepuscular
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Gaze upon a twilit sky, the endless shore, the receding vista, the inside of palm to forehead.—
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Zegler is the true find, a marvelous singer and a radiant persona, and Spielberg and Kaminski film her like a bright flare in a twilit ocean; her sheer presence papers over some of the more facile aspects of Maria’s characterization.—
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When the summer heat creeps to unbearable temperatures, pre-dawn and post-dusk become the most appealing times to run.—
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Mylar space blankets draped across their shoulders glistened a surreal golden hue as the vessel’s blinding strobe lights illuminated the post-dusk spectacle.—
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One of those late landscapes, Mountain Landscape in Bohemia (ca. 1830), seems at first glance not to feature a single human at all, just puffy clouds, dusky peaks, and endless blades of grass that appear to sway in the wind.—
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There’s also a wide color selection, which includes the dusky pink and plum Disco Dust and the pink, cool purple, and dirty red Electric Cherry.—
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Fall asleep and dream about being slowly forced, as if by some mechanized peristalsis, through the digestive tract of a huge synthetic worm that then deposits me into a lightless industrial kitchen.—
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While rappelling into some supposedly haunted mines in Chile in 2010, Gates and a cameraman got trapped in a lightless mine shaft.—
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What to watch: This weekend's gloomy weather shouldn't deter birders, Rayner said.—
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Dratch first performed Debbie Downer on SNL in 2004 in a sketch that saw the gloomy character ruin a family trip to Walt Disney World.—
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Following his release, Yarden was met by his sister and father in a somber reunion.—
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The image of Kurdi, dead and face down in the sand, soon became a somber meme—one that, for a while, helped garner widespread sympathy and financial support for refugees landing by the thousands on Greece’s shores.—
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What tenebrous horror is this, emerging from the ineffable darkness?—
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By the same token, Spanish cinema at large has been reluctant to engage with that tenebrous period.—
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Above all, her mindset during the 24-7, pitch-black months has proved that there is, in fact, always a bright side to living in the dark.—
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As the night wears on — and Slim, Pierre, Broken Feather, Dusty, and Pete are met by a group of singing girls out in the pitch-black pastures — the visuals fail to transcend, but the paradoxical party still feels like one that could only be put on by Lynch.—
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“Crepuscular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crepuscular. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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