half-world

They lived in “the ‘half-world,’” where they were “free to do what was tabu sic for the respectable woman.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

It was odd, though, walking through their collection of South and Southeast Asian art, displaced a half-world away from its home, and thinking about the processes that brought it all here.

Statement of Intent, 8/2/09 kirizal 2009

“No sound troubled him from that other half-world into which he had stumbled but there was nothing dreamlike about his memories,” wrote Waugh.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

When the innocent casualties are a half-world away, Americans have a remarkably high tolerance for civilian deaths and dismemberments.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Predator Drone Warfare — Assorted Links 2010

The book opens by contemplating 3 a.m., a "watery half-world, where bats and nighthawks flit," and closes with 2 a.m., "the invisible suture where the closed circle of life was welded in the fires of creation."

Dispatches From the Natural World 2011

The book is at its best when Saviano describes the strange half-world that he now inhabits.

Beauty and the Inferno by Roberto Saviano – Review Duncan Campbell 2010

“No sound troubled him from that other half-world into which he had stumbled but there was nothing dreamlike about his memories,” wrote Waugh.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

How nice it was, albeit a half-world away, and days later, to share my morning coffee with them and you (while Jean-Marc knocked back the grappa -- revenge is divine).

gracieux - French Word-A-Day 2009

If she spoke, if she let those words go free, then it would be true . . . but here, in the half-world of the airport, the Land of Between, a place where everyone was on his or her way someplace else, maybe she could keep it a secret.

The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010

When the innocent casualties are a half-world away, Americans have a remarkably high tolerance for civilian deaths and dismemberments.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Predator Drone Warfare — Assorted Links 2010