half-light
- n a greyish light (as at dawn or dusk or in dim interiors)
- Still, Shanghai thrives best in those half-light moments when it's not clear whether it's dawn or dusk.
- The modern theater, whether in London or New York, dwells in this half-light, with its pensive mixture of not-yet-dusk and not-quite-dawn.
- Under the silent city, waiting for the bombers in the half-light of the world's largest dugout (estimated capacity: 30,000), hundreds of Chinese died.