| The liminal position between tradition and adaptation has been described by Ralph Ellison as the quintessential American identity. |
| Her choice of only well-established older male theorists and her use of their work as foundational rather than liminal becomes suspect. |
| The constant hum of the recitation may have been intended in part to induce a liminal state that was not entirely conscious. |
| The sea is the home of selkies, mermaids, these liminal creatures that slip back and forth between states as between elements. |
| As far as Russian folk belief is concerned, during this liminal period the body still retains some vestige of life. |
| It's a book that's always beginning, where everything is introductory, liminal, prefatory. |
