| 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. |
| At death, the body enters upon a brief liminal stage which ends at the committal. |
| The liminal position between tradition and adaptation has been described by Ralph Ellison as the quintessential American identity. |
| It's a book that's always beginning, where everything is introductory, liminal, prefatory. |
| As far as Russian folk belief is concerned, during this liminal period the body still retains some vestige of life. |
