In the novel Oe illustrates the concept of liminality developed by the cultural anthropologist Victor Turner, the "betwixt-and-between" state characterized by invisibility, outsiderhood, and marginality, yet also the locus of great potential for renewal. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The hell of it, of course, is that Afghanistan is a betwixt-and-between case. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Shakespeare, then, deliberately situated his tragedy in a queasy betwixt-and-between world, where the metaphysical forces in which everyone professed to believe were simultaneously affirmed and negated. ❋ Greenblatt, Stephen (2008)
The audience was small, but engaged, and it was great to share the conversation with a comics creator, a publisher, and a comics critic and explore the notion of betwixt-and-between that defines the interstitial. ❋ Book Nerd (2007)
Tuckey, frequently performed in the past by a young woman good at trickster roles (Jeannette Ryan and Joanne Hogle, in our cases), is the most betwixt-and-between character in the piece, even more than the ❋ Unknown (2002)
Deaver's betwixt-and-between thriller pits the FBI and all its buddies against a blackmailer who's threatening terrorist attacks on revelers welcoming the millennium in the nation's capital ... ❋ Unknown (1999)
Winter is real pleasant when it does come, but I must say, I don't fancy these betwixt-and-between days much. ❋ Unknown (1908)
He was "betwixt-and-between," being a silk merchant, who met so many fine folk that he seemed to be "fine folk" himself; and by the time Anthony had grown up, he actually believed himself to be one of them. ❋ Mary Schell Hoke Bacon (1902)
Mr. Bliss Perry phrased it most felicitously when he asserted that "a novel is typically as far removed from a play as a bird is from a fish," and that "the attempt to transform one into the other is apt to result in a sort of flying-fish, a betwixt-and-between thing." ❋ Brander Matthews (1890)
Ryan Bingham thrives in the betwixt-and-between spaces. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"being" (de Man, Resistance, 19) — de Man is an uneasily betwixt-and-between figure. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The farmer who was good crossed himself; the one who was bad turned white and tried to remember how prayers were said; the one who was betwixt-and-between clung to the stone on which he was seated and held his breath; for a tall, lank personage, with overhanging brows, slanting eyes, long chin and nose, and wrathful aspect, was striding to and fro on the edge of the ravine, looking at the opposite bank as if trying to decide whether or not he could leap that distance. ❋ Unknown (1879)
"I have one of those nasty, unserviceable, betwixt-and-between talents: voice not high enough for 'Robert, toi que j'aime,' nor low enough for ❋ Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1889)
