Sentence examples for leela from inspiring English sources

Chandra's genial mood of acceptance seems part of a Hindu vision of human affairs as leela, or sacred game, which transcends easy distinctions between good and evil — a world view that both major and minor characters in the novel, spies and cops as well as criminals, magnify.

But she says that now people either want to talk about "Sons" or "Futurama," the animated series for which she voices Leela.

"I met with one of the girls, Leela," she says, "a 19-year-old who had no doubt suffered [as a child, her father sent her out to be gang-raped by the police] but who, since arriving [in Mumbai], was so alive, and so optimistic".

Khan's on-the-record credits included Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982); Merchant-Ivory's Heat and Dust (1983); Hindi films such as Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999); Manish Jha's arch Matrubhoomi: a Nation Without Women (2003); and Subramaniya Shiva's Tamil film Yogi (2009).

And we meet Tom and Leela, who, with no warning have been lumbered with unwelcome new identities – "everyone's worst-case scenario"; whose best memories have become their greatest torments, haunting them as they sleepwalk through the days, stooping to pick up acorns along the paths they used to amble down as a trio.

Police said the body of Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of minister Shashi Tharoor, was found at the Leela Palace hotel in Delhi.

This race will have a giant mess to clean… When Leela-May Magnolia Moore, a graduate student studying the mathematics of music, hears Mishka Bartok playing his violin in the Harvard Square station, she follows… Padgett's plainspoken, wry poems deliver their wisdom through a kind of connoisseurship of absurdity.

When Leela-May Magnolia Moore, a graduate student studying the mathematics of music, hears Mishka Bartok playing his violin in the Harvard Square station, she follows him up the stairs to the crowded street and loses her heart.

The celebrations include various cultural programs, including the "Ras-leela," a re-enactment of the romantic dance between Lord Krishna and his lover, Radha.

Barjatya has a sly, winning way of mixing mythology with modernity: the Prince's horse-drawn carriage arrives with Forbes magazine in its reading rack, while there are nods to everything from the Ram-Leela legend to Game of Thrones via Roman Holiday.

Ram-leela Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone do a Gujarati Romeo and Juliet.