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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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Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
28 Jan. 2023
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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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
11 Dec. 2021
Down below, the hotel’s daytime pool party is coming to a bass-heavy, twilit close.
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New York Times,
23 Sep. 2021
Robert Macfarlane’s writings exist in a liminal, twilit place where language and landscape dissolve into one another.
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Tobias Carroll,
Longreads,
20 June 2019
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Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
28 Jan. 2023
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.
—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
11 Dec. 2021
Down below, the hotel’s daytime pool party is coming to a bass-heavy, twilit close.
—
New York Times,
23 Sep. 2021
Robert Macfarlane’s writings exist in a liminal, twilit place where language and landscape dissolve into one another.
—
Tobias Carroll,
Longreads,
20 June 2019
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“Twilit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twilit. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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