They have sought to find a place for Australia in the penumbra of Asia.

ECONOMIST: God��s own republic?

As Sigismund Blondy saw him, Zwelish walked in a fiery aura of loneliness, but Blondy had got inside the penumbra.

NEWYORKER: Lucky Alan

Given the choice between a busted euro and a vibrant, if rule-free, future in the Russian penumbra, they may choose the latter.

BBC: Cypriot bank worker with placard

What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rere of the house into the penumbra of the garden?

NEWYORKER: Silence, Exile, Punning

Whereas business institutions in the Islamic world remained atomised, the West developed ever more resilient corporations limited liability became widely available in the mid-19th century as well as a penumbra of technologies such as double-entry book-keeping and stockmarkets.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter