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    penumbra


    1. entered the penumbra, but unfortunately they would do the same


    2. But what good was that against an enemy he could not see? The control room, which should now be connected with the device, was still within the ‘slow-down’ penumbra


    3. If all had gone to plan the protective (zero point) bubble would soon encompass the earth, with the penumbra of slowed time stretching beyond the solar system


    4. Yet the slow-down penumbra had expanded to encompass as far as the orbit of Mars


    5. quitted their position, to embrace the hope of a universal salvation; while others wander in the penumbra of


    6. their position, to embrace the hope of a universal salvation; while others wander in the penumbra


    7. of a universal salvation; while others wander in the penumbra of eschatological skepticism" The


    8. More or less secretly many of the partisans of the traditional dogma, unable to hold it any longer, have quitted their position, to embrace the hope of a universal salvation; while others wander in the penumbra of eschatological skepticism" The Extinction Of Evil, page 78, 1889


    9. What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rere of the house into the penumbra of the garden?


    10. At Stephen's suggestion, at Bloom's instigation both, first Stephen, then Bloom, in penumbra urinated, their sides contiguous, their organs of micturition reciprocally rendered invisible by manual circumposition, their gazes, first Bloom's, then Stephen's, elevated to the projected luminous and semiluminous shadow

    11. It’s hard to see much in the pink penumbra of the flares, but Keith feels uncomfortable


    12. The indiscreet touch of a glance brutalizes this vague penumbra


    13. For the eye of the thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous penumbra, on their knees, with a scrap of their winding-sheet for an apron, dismally sponging out their work


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    "penumbra" definitions

    a fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra