Sentence examples for lyra in from inspiring English sources

I'm sure she inspired Philip Pullman's Lyra in His Dark Materials, and she certainly inspired me.

But there have been so many good female characters for girls in cinema – Lyra in The Golden Compass, Katniss in The Hunger Games, Hit-Girl in Kick-Ass.

And in contemporary children's fiction it's the same: think of Philip Pullman's Lyra in His Dark Materials or Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games or Paige Mahoney in Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season.

"Achilles Stringing the Lyra in his Tent" painted by the Italian Giuseppe Cades in the 1770s or "Mars and Venus" carved around the same time by the Swede Johan Tobias Sergel come dangerously close to what might be called Commedia dell'arte kitsch.

Maxwell Martin, who won early critical acclaim with a six-hour performance as Lyra in the National Theatre's sell-out adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, went on to take Bafta best actress awards both for Bleak House, and for her startling performance as N in the television film version of Claire Allan's novel about mental illness, Poppy Shakespeare.

Add to the casting of Dakota Blue Richards (who was Lyra in The Golden Compass, though is probably better known for playing Franky in Skins) as 19th-century maths prodigy Thomasina, and this revival of what many consider to be Stoppard's best play (and almost certainly his most heartfelt) should deliver.

The bright stars Vega in the constellation Lyra, Altair in the constellation Aquila, and Deneb in the constellation Cygnus, form what is known in the Northern Hemisphere as the Summer Triangle.

Its other corners are marked by Vega in Lyra and Altair in Aquila, and the Milky Way continues through it on its way to Scorpius and Sagittarius, low in the S, where the centre of our galaxy lies.

They do much very well plot, pacing, language, the creepiness thing; but just when I'm about to get really afraid I'll find someone plotting her escape by, say, removing a loose ceiling tile, as Lyra does in "The Golden Compass," or evil will arrive in the form of malevolent birds of prey, as in Gaiman's "The Ocean at the End of the Lane," and I think, ugh.

Curious as to his reasons for arriving, Lyra listens in on one of his private conversations with some of the scholars about his recent findings.

Will and Lyra meet in The Subtle Knife only to then have to move heaven and earth (literally) to be reunited.