All 13 Uses of
twilight
in
Brave New World
- They descended into a thickening twilight.
p. 11..1 (definition 1)twilight = light like that from the time of day between daylight and darkness
- Their wanderings through the crimson twilight had brought them to the neighborhood of Metre 170 on Rack 9.
p. 16..0 (definition 1)
- They stepped over the threshold into the twilight of a shuttered dormitory.
p. 26..9 (definition 1)
- The liftman slammed the gates, touched a button and instantly dropped back into the droning twilight of the well,
p. 59..6 (definition 1)
- ...the twilight of his own habitual stupor.
p. 59..6 (definition 2) *twilight = a condition of decline
- An incessant buzzing of helicopters filled the twilight.
p. 72..5 (definition 1) *twilight = the sky just after sunset or just before sunrise
- And as they sang, the lights began slowly to fadeāto fade and at the same time to grow warmer, richer, redder, until at last they were dancing in the crimson twilight of an Embryo Store.
p. 85..2 (definition 1)twilight = light like that from the time of day between daylight and darkness
- Tenderly the deep Voice crooned and cooed; in the red twilight it was as though some enormous negro dove were hovering benevolently over the now prone or supine dancers.
p. 85..4 (definition 1)
- He had emerged from that crimson twilight into the common electric glare with a self-consciousness intensified to the pitch of agony.
p. 86..7 (definition 1)
- Inside, when they entered, the twilight stank and was loud with flies.†
p. 118..7 (definition 1)
- In the cinematographic twilight, Bernard risked a gesture which, in the past, even total darkness would hardly have emboldened him to make.
p. 162..9 (definition 1)twilight = light like that from the time of day between daylight and darkness
- Henry Foster loomed up through the twilight of the Embryo Store.
p. 186..1 (definition 1)
- They pushed it open and walked into a shuttered twilight.
p. 259..5 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (twilight as in: pink clouds in a twilight sky) the time of day between daylight and darkness (just after sunset or just before sunrise); or the light from the sky at that time
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(2) (twilight as in: the twilight of her career) a condition of decline following successes