So right now, I am living in another kind of liminal space. From Wordnik.com. [Random Thoughts on Life] Reference
It's a fancy word that means "in between", in case you wondered -- kind of like "liminal". From Wordnik.com. [Wednesday Stuff: Book Talk] Reference
Also: "liminal" or "liminality" but I suspect it just seems like I see it more frequently than I actually do. From Wordnik.com. [Words] Reference
In our extended family, we have defined the "liminal" as the place where two very different states of being meet. From Wordnik.com. [they lost our crib in CLT] Reference
It's precisely this kind of liminal moment in which culture becomes extraordinarily powerful. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
And I do think there's some of that liminal space. From Wordnik.com. [Brad Balfour: Exclusive: Zoe Kazan's Acting "Explodes" with "A Behanding"] Reference
HP: I think of "Summer Ice" as a very liminal story. From Wordnik.com. [EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Holly Phillips] Reference
Every day we bear up under the liminal weight of air. From Wordnik.com. [Six Poems By Dan Gerber: Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature] Reference
A classic example of liminal and subliminal advertising. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Rice Suddenly Loses Her Ability To Assess Polls] Reference
Often I was apparently so liminal that I went unnoticed. From Wordnik.com. [And Then: Parts 1-3] Reference
Word of the week: liminal « bird of paradox bird of paradox. From Wordnik.com. [Word of the week: liminal] Reference
And how much of this turns on the liminal nature of her guilt?. From Wordnik.com. [Modality and Hamlet] Reference
Ritual scholars have a name for this: they call it "liminal space.". From Wordnik.com. [Carol Orsborn: The Baby Boomer Holiday Ritual: Wishing You Merry Resilience] Reference
Twitter's a liminal epicenter ... by JonPincus on April 12, 2009 - 10: 16am. From Wordnik.com. [Yet Another Post About Twitter] Reference
This emulation — or simulation — occurs in a liminal, between-worlds space. From Wordnik.com. [Games in Virtual Environments] Reference
In those liminal states of near-slumber, I think we truly understand each other. From Wordnik.com. [on not going gently] Reference
It marks the liminal where an idea teeters from ethereal to universally searchable. From Wordnik.com. [8/30/02 Tessa flew to Los] Reference
I don't feel like a Californian either; we're in some liminal state of homelessness. From Wordnik.com. [labor day epidural] Reference
It isn't a liminal, transitional kind of lifestyle, as in "caught between two worlds". From Wordnik.com. [Living in two places - dialogue wanted] Reference
Victor W. Turner has recently proposed a new interpretation of myths as “liminal phenomena.”. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The pool, once a refuge of dignity for the father, hovers as a liminal zone of artificial peace. From Wordnik.com. [Karin Badt: A Screaming Man at Cannes: Chad Director Speaks About Failed Fathers] Reference
One customer outside one of the New York stores called it a-- quote -- "liminal experience" -- liminal. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2007] Reference
We all spend time in liminal spaces like Paradise Falls, deciding what to keep and what to leave behind. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Blankenship: In Pixar's Up, Two Chairs Mean the World (SPOILERS)] Reference
There is a liminal of ten inches between my bedroom and the violent, bone-breakingly cold howls outside. From Wordnik.com. [lovely dark and deep] Reference
In this floating state of barely liminal consciousness, it was all Dax knew, without even knowing what it meant. From Wordnik.com. [Time's Enemy]
Get this -- one customer outside of one of the New York stores called it a, quote, "liminal experience" -- liminal. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2007] Reference
The difference between form and figure would be this dialectic, structure as the liminal state between life and death. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur] Reference
Cities, with tidy houses and swept streets, were places of order; the space outside of town was liminal and dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference
Meghan is a creature of the Facebook generation that lives life online in that liminal state between public and private. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Digest: Does a Bill That Fails on the Web Make a Sound?] Reference
After my recent stint as Guest Blogger at The F Word came to an end, I was surprised to find myself in just such a liminal space. From Wordnik.com. [Word of the week: liminal] Reference
They tell soul that this is a liminal moment, that you're ready to cross the threshold from one way of seeing and being to another. From Wordnik.com. [Anne Dilenschneider: The Gentle Art Of Soul Care] Reference
There is a liminal between seasons, a time that is neither fall nor winter, and the Hudson Valley has definitely entered that state. From Wordnik.com. [11/4/02 There is a liminal] Reference
Poor Tessa has been battling something in the liminal between a cold and the flu, so after two conversations, she could barely talk. From Wordnik.com. [5/13/02 Even though I had] Reference
Airports are also liminal in that it is cheating - it is YOU being in ANOTHER PLACE SO QUICKLY in a way not possible a hundred years ago. From Wordnik.com. [they lost our crib in CLT] Reference
And this admixture of excitation and inhibition persists when the stimulus is reduced in strength still further so as to be merely liminal. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture] Reference
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