Sentence examples for lair from from inspiring English sources

But they are also trapped, somewhat more literally, in the secret lair from which they plan their guerrilla revolution.

Amy Chan occupies the space previously known as the Ravenite Social Club, a lair from which John J. Gotti, the Mafia leader, masterminded murders, plotted rackets and was toadied to as the Gambino crime family boss.

There's a whole parallel network of imaginary stations, including Vauxhall Cross, the secret lair from an earlier Bond movie, Die Another Day; you might discover a buried Martian spaceship at Hobbs End station, too, as they did in Quatermass and the Pit, or stumble across the masked anarchist's secret HQ at Strand, as featured in V for Vendetta.

Meanwhile Avery has continued to polish his image as Manhattan sophisticate, as in this MSG Network Fashion Week feature on Avery, replete in what I believe are Oliver Peoples eyeglasses … … and in this look inside Avery's bachelor lair from a Times Sunday magazine piece in September.

What looks like a non-descript row house with fake siding by day, at night becomes Granville Moore's (1238 H St; granvillemoores.com), a Belgian lair from DC entrepreneur and restaurateur Joe Englert (he bought eight properties on H Street in total).

As a part of the Inside exhibition, curated by Jean de Loisy, Daria de Beauvais, and Katell Jaffrès, Tape Paris uses over 27 miles of transparent Scotch tape to form an immense, immersive installation, one that looks an awful lot like Shelob's lair from Lord of the Rings.

Then, when Kaschei's spell is broken, his realm diminishes into lairs from which his male and female prisoners, transformed, are released.

Back then, there was speculation that al-Qaida had created a James Bond villain's lair, hewn from the rock.

A conventional creative writing teacher would nail him for failing to dramatize enough or to mold fully distinct characters, and while the rap isn't really fair — Manea seems indifferent to the prescriptions of contemporary realism — it's still worth broaching, in part to give a sense of how deeply "The Lair" differs from most of today's English-language fiction.

At the book's apocalyptic end, a handsome inventor emerges from his lair to rebuild from the ashes: "The road is cleared," he says, "we are going back to the world".

The commission has too often served as the lair for safe appointees from both parties dedicated to protecting machine values.