i may have found my new insult: "he was of crepuscular wit" or something similar
crepuscular \krih-PUS-kyuh-luhr\, adjective:
1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling twilight; dim.
2. (Zoology) Appearing or active at twilight.
I've been through their checkout and noted its resemblance
to Hades - the crepuscular gloom, the dungeon lighting, the
mile-long shuffling queue, the glum, sickly faces, the
trolleys piled high with flat-pack cardboard units.
--John Walsh, "btw," [1]Independent, February 12, 2005
In the crepuscular lobby, a broad circle of monitors laid
on their backs on the floor blinked up at a laser show
spiraling across a tentlike scrim stretched just below the
building's blacked-out skylight.
--David Joselit, "Planet Paik - Nam June Paik's works,"
[2]Art in America, June, 2000
But Monet pursued the blood-red sun rather than the
blanched moon, favouring the strangely crepuscular effects
created by noxious London smogs during the day.
--Richard Cork, "Relay race," [3]New Statesman, February
28, 2005
Most communication systems in luminescent fireflies have
been studied in nocturnal species; little is known
concerning communication in crepuscular and diurnal
species.
--Nobuyoshi Ohba, "Flash Communication Systems of Japanese
Fireflies," [4]Integrative and Comparative Biology, June
2004
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Crepuscular comes from Latin crepusculum, "twilight," from
creper, "dark, obscure."
1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling twilight; dim.
2. (Zoology) Appearing or active at twilight.
I've been through their checkout and noted its resemblance
to Hades - the crepuscular gloom, the dungeon lighting, the
mile-long shuffling queue, the glum, sickly faces, the
trolleys piled high with flat-pack cardboard units.
--John Walsh, "btw," [1]Independent, February 12, 2005
In the crepuscular lobby, a broad circle of monitors laid
on their backs on the floor blinked up at a laser show
spiraling across a tentlike scrim stretched just below the
building's blacked-out skylight.
--David Joselit, "Planet Paik - Nam June Paik's works,"
[2]Art in America, June, 2000
But Monet pursued the blood-red sun rather than the
blanched moon, favouring the strangely crepuscular effects
created by noxious London smogs during the day.
--Richard Cork, "Relay race," [3]New Statesman, February
28, 2005
Most communication systems in luminescent fireflies have
been studied in nocturnal species; little is known
concerning communication in crepuscular and diurnal
species.
--Nobuyoshi Ohba, "Flash Communication Systems of Japanese
Fireflies," [4]Integrative and Comparative Biology, June
2004
_________________________________________________________
Crepuscular comes from Latin crepusculum, "twilight," from
creper, "dark, obscure."