Meaning of between-time | Babel Free

Definitions

The period or time between two events; interim; meantime; meanwhile.

Examples

“Sade therefore calls the pure time of suspended history marking an epoch a revolutionary regime; it is the time of the between-times where, between the old laws and the new, there reigns the silence of the absence of laws, an interval that corresponds precisely to the suspension of speech […]”

“In the case of the time of the event, by contrast, It is no longer time which is between two instants; it is the event which is a between-time [entre-temps, "meanwhile, meantime"]: the between-time is not of the eternal, but it is no longer (of) time, it is (of) becoming.”

“It relates to a recurrence in the dead time or the between-time separating inspiration and expiration, the diastole and systole of the heart beating softly against the lining of one's own⟳ skin.”

“Freedom itself ages; it is not eternal, though perhaps it brings us to a border⟳ between time and eternity. Ethical selving is in the between time, the interim of the aging of freedom. Freedom, of course, seems the catch⟳ cry⟳ of modernity.”

“Turning to the between regressions, the elasticity on fixed capital is particularly high (0.63) in the between-time […] The between-time estimate⟳ of capital of agricultural origin is significantly positive, though more modest in value (0.25).”

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