Sentence examples for Lyra from inspiring English sources
noun
The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.
Bowl lyres have a rounded body with a curved back often of tortoiseshell and a skin belly; the arms are invariably constructed separately, as in the Greek lyra.
Greek lyres fell into two types, exemplified by the lyra and kithara.
The kithara was apparently of Asiatic origin, the lyra either indigenous or of Syrian provenance.
The lyra was the instrument of the amateur, the kithara, of the professional singer.
"The lyra, which is bowed, is a lead instrument," White said.
His uncle, Nikos Xylouris, was a renowned composer and lyra player, as is his father, Antonis Xylouris, known as Psarandonis.
"He's playing melodies that normally the lyra would play, with the bow, and he's doing it while keeping the rhythm going as well," White said.
Among his books of verse are included The Psalter or Psalms of David (1839) and the poems for childhood, Lyra Innocentium (1846); he also wrote numerous hymn lyrics, including "O God of mercy, God of might".
In the trilogy, a young girl, Lyra Belacqua, becomes enmeshed in an epic struggle against a nefarious Church known as the Magisterium; another character, an ex-nun turned particle physicist named Mary Malone, describes Christianity as "a very powerful and convincing mistake".
Pullman's heroine, Lyra Belacqua, is a pre-adolescent girl who erroneously believes that she is an orphan.
As the writer Lyra Kilston observed in the magazine Modern Painters, in words that could just as well describe the life of many a New York office worker, the trials in Ms. Gilmore's work "thwart victorious resolution," and even if the hapless striver succeeds, "we see a vaguely confused expression that seems to question why she was engaged in the senseless action to begin with".
