Sentence examples for With lit from inspiring English sources

No Doubt, along with Lit and Black Eyed Peas.

She arrived to study at Oxford with lit dirt under her fingernails.

An outstretched foot with lit cigarettes tucked between each toe was "cursed image 5927".

At the end of "Layla and Majnun," two dancers, Lauren Grant and Christina Sahaida, walk forward with lit lamps in their hands.

The café's clientele turned over; the tables were set for dinner, decorated with lit candles, menus in place; the staff even switched off the WiFi, in order to chase out the most tenacious of the afternoon Googlers.

Nearby, at Gavin Brown, two lovely nocturnal cityscapes by Alex Katz, with lit windows on a dark New York night, look over Rob Pruitt's mad, humanoid fluorescent orange traffic cones.

Unfortunately, Kafka remains a cipher, and Zischler has to compensate with lit-crit flights of fancy, complete with paren(theses).

The narrator introduces Aura to pastrami sandwiches and matzo-ball soup in New York, where, with a Fulbright scholarship, she grapples with lit-crit theory at Columbia grad school "like a butterfly thrashing against flypaper", and moonlights in creative writing, mentored by a famous Australian writer (Peter Carey).

The author's account of his search for his father's family's roots and his own battles with depression and panic and alcohol are interwoven with lit-crit assessments of Hawthorne's story "The Minister's Black Veil," which was supposedly based on the life of a clergyman known as Handkerchief Moody, whom Mr. Moody suspects was a distant ancestor.

Only in his later years did he get the credit he deserved, with testimonials from writers with lit-cred, including Martin Amis, and the imprimatur of two of the coolest movie directors of our time: Quentin Tarantino, who turned Rum Punch into the movie Jackie Brown (1997), and Steven Soderbergh, who adapted Out of Sight (1998).

From this world of light and active life, the visitor moves into a darkened room lined with lit-up glass cases filled with glassy eyed taxidermied specimens of birds, monkeys, and other small mammals and a fierce-looking jaguar most of them endangered or nearly extinct (Fig. 8).