As the noonday call to Friday prayers sounded, riot police were firing shots into air thickened with the smoke from a burning vehicle.

CNN: Walking on a Tightrope

Our evidence was too slim to satisfy any economist, but in the real world, if you cared to look, it glowed like the noonday sun.

FORBES: In Praise Of Animal Spirits

Sending her camera gliding languidly into the noonday shadows of a rotting shack, darting dangerously through heavy marshland foliage, or jaunting past city lights from the back of an open-air bus, Akerman embraces the rapturous but desperate beauty of the countryside and the chill of the metropolis.

NEWYORKER: Almayer's Folly