Sentence examples for lili from inspiring English sources
The word "lili" is not standard in written English
It may be used informally as a nickname or term of endearment. Example: "She always calls her little sister Lili."
In first class they enjoyed filet mignons lili with pâté de foie gras, while in third class they made do with vegetable soup and cabin biscuits.
During the war, music such as "Lili Marleen" was used to motivate soldiers at the front and boost morale at home.Where the exhibition falls short is in showing what happened after 1945.
The most interesting, simply called "Lili Marlene", made by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in 1981, has Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda chief, hating the song for its sentimentality.
"Lili: A Novel of Tiananmen" follows the experiences of the beautiful young musician, Lili, from her traumatic childhood in the Cultural Revolution until the events of 1989.
During the relative liberalisation of the post-Mao economic reforms, the disaffected Lili shocks her intellectual parents ("I love to upset those old Confucians") by cohabiting with Roy, an American journalist.
He was pleased with the success of "Lili Marlene" but did not rank it with what he considered his best work, such as "Schwarzer Peter".The "denazification" bodies set up by the victors after the war took a close look at Mr Schultze's work.
The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Walters's sole nod for best director; only Bronislau Kaper's score (which included "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo") won an Oscar.
She ceased composing, rating her works "useless," after the death in 1918 of her talented sister Lili Boulanger, also a composer.
Lili Berger's nuanced miscellany, Ekhos fun a vaytn nekhtn ("Echoes of a Distant Yesterday"), included Bible stories, essays, and sketches.
The main character is Lili Elbe, the artist "whose brave and pioneering spirit remain an inspiration for today's transgender movement", but who, in the course of the movie, endures extreme trauma.
The goal of mixing crime-thriller action with domestic scenes is laudable, and anyone with siblings will recognise the dynamics at play during a disastrous Thanksgiving dinner involving Crudup, Owen, sister Lili Taylor and dad James Caan.
