How To Use Lyly In A Sentence

  • He would allow John slyly to copy his answers to impossibly difficult algebra questions.
  • Although the term ‘abuse’ in the title emphasizes moral censure, the poem does not read like a puritan palinode but seems to compete against Lyly's Euphues, which had appeared a few months earlier.
  • She laughed, a bit slyly, bending her head to one side.
  • She is whispering slyly to her neighbor.
  • And practically everyone—male and female—wore some small bauble that weighed in at several carats, whether it was a diamond choker or a ruby cufflink slyly winking from the end of a tuxedo sleeve. Venom
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  • And he has slyly told us how, as he stepped aboard that “inland palace,” he bethought him of having written a thesis, three years before, proving that De Witt Clinton's chimera of joining the Hudson and Lake Erie was an idea both fictile and fibrous. Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great
  • Upset over the turn of events, they slyly have her removed from their home, leaving both the maid and the young daughter distraught.
  • Jonathan Richman, among others, spent his prime writing this kind of slyly humorous yet evocative music.
  • The mad cuckoo behind the little door could not resist casting a shadow upon the virility of his enemy, just as the cuckoo astonishingly characterized those who demonstrated against the war in New York, October 1965, as "epicene" and "mincing" slobs, thus slyly assigning to sodom’s banner such unlikely recruits as I.F. Stone, Ossie Davis, and Father Philip Berrigan. R_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"
  • He spake the old phrase slyly as, glancing round his train, The Complete Works of Whittier
  • He was lurking slyly in the background.
  • The imperious, self-involved mother dotes over her baby girl's hair and slyly inveigles the child to continue with her brilliant career as a shoplifter.
  • DVD Focus 'The Limey' (1999) Steven Soderbergh directed and Lem Dobbs wrote this slyly funny, spasmodically violent film noir in which the title character, a white-haired obsessive named Wilson (Terence Stamp), shows up in Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Soderbergh Goes 'Haywire' With a Fast, Stylish Thriller
  • By the end, you realize the movie has slyly anatomized the class resentments of an entire community. Kidman's A Comedienne
  • Boyle's novels are wittily and slyly satiric about the earnest, innocent reforming utopians who questioned social attitudes and proselytised progressive, perfectionist ideals.
  • He would allow John slyly to copy his answers to impossibly difficult algebra questions.
  • Iohannes ist der, dem Cristus sin hailge stat den rainen lylyen als ainem sun dem tonner vss liebly hat den frid enpfolchen. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • The essential requirement is to remember that Lyly the dramatist is the same man as Lyly the euphuist, and that his audience was always a company of courtiers, with Queen Elizabeth in their midst, infatuated with admiration for the new phraseology and mode of thought known as Euphuism. The Growth of English Drama
  • Its characters are calculatedly charming and the script slyly ends each of its tragic notes with a sight gag.
  • Moll's film may well owe its inspiration to Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, and this film could just as easily be slyly retitled The Trouble With Harry.
  • With crisp, articulate draftsmanship and a penchant for queasily keyed-up colors, Sharrer presents slyly enigmatic events that are punctuated by surreal details.
  • Then he looks up at me, slyly, from under his eyebrows and I note sleek lashes, ticklish and fine. A MEANS TO EVIL
  • She lets him do the talking while slyly poking a little fun at him along the way.
  • As its slyly punning title suggests, this 1999 documentary is Herzog's tribute to his doppelganger.
  • I think that the problem is her inability to think on her feet, to speak extemporaneously about a subject she should know something about, and the blatant why she tried to 'slyly' look at the notes as though no one would notice and as though she were a junior high student. Sarah Palin Uses 'Cheat Notes' At Teabagger Convention
  • "And among them," he adds, winking slyly, "is an author familiar to you both."
  • In the first of his four nights at the Metropolitan, it was impossible to miss the polarized extremes of his presentation: In his onstage patter, which is a wry parody of the pretentious things that performers say and critics write, he is slyly understated and as dry as six martinis. Swinging Into New Styles
  • Sinking into the large cushion on her armchair, she smiles slyly, as if just awakened from drowsing over the book shut on her lap.
  • She marched right into class, sat down, and slyly waved at all her friends from last year.
  • And a monk who considers a horse excellent, whatever his natural forms, can only see him as the auctoritates have described him, especially if "- and here he smiled slyly in my direction -" the describer is a learned Benedictine. The Name of the Rose
  • The mathematician proudly gave his answer, glancing at me slyly out of the corner of his eye, as if he had outdone me in some way.
  • That terrible smile of his returned slyly, as if he knew precisely what he was doing.
  • ObjectiveTo explore the methods of low temperature preservation for alginate-polylysine-alginate (APA) microcapsules.
  • In this scenario, Suharto is an Iago-like figure, slyly goading the plotters into carrying out a coup that he knows will fail, leaving him well-placed to take power himself and blame the coup on the PKI. Archive 2007-10-01
  • And aII because Mrs Huffmaster, a barefoot slattern with half a dozen snottering brats at her heels, "came a-callin"', peeping round Annie on the porch to get a look inside, and remarking slyly "what a smart lot o' shirts your men-folk has ", when we'd carelessly put all our washing out at once, and there were clothes for fifteen or twenty fluttering on the green. THE NUMBERS
  • A brief portion featured the pair chattering about the pitfalls of marriage while slyly manoeuvering around a kitchen table.
  • He's saying that gingerly is, basically and traditionally, an adjective, and the adverbial use results as a haplology of the derived form gingerlyly.
  • The literary affectation called euphuism was directly based on the precepts of the handbooks on rhetoric; its author, John Lyly, only elaborated and made more precise tricks of phrase and writing, which had been used as exercises in the schools of his youth. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
  • And slyly smiling, just began to sip The pure nectarean dew; The rosary, or Beads of love [verse]. With the poem of Sula
  • Those words had become with her a phrase slyly to play upon. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
  • As we roam the streets, they slyly peep at us and challenge us in 20 different guises.
  • Ariela smiled slyly, ‘Thanks, bud,’ she said and ran towards it.
  • Her ruby red lips were grinning slyly as she placed her arms around her lover's neck.
  • Lyly's play uses the myth to present a political allegory of Philip of Spain, by giving Midas and his courtiers what was considered by a contemporary English audience to be a specifically Spanish characteristic: the desire for gold.
  • He employed the term slyly, knowing his somewhat puritanical publisher would not recognize it. Black and White World: This Gun for Hire – The Bleat.
  • The great genius behind this storyline was that Ward was slyly biting the hand that fed him.
  • Obama also made a point in Turkey, a strategic U.S. ally whose population is overwhelmingly Muslim but which prides itself on an officially secular government, of pulling out the same middle name slyly used as a slur by some during the election campaign as a badge of honour and evidence that America remains the land of opportunity. London Free Press - News
  • After slyly gaining entrance to the castle and accidentally saving the king from an assassination attempt, he is given prestige and title by the thankful ruler.
  • And then there are those who slyly attempt to make the commentator swear. Times, Sunday Times
  • And then there are those who slyly attempt to make the commentator swear. Times, Sunday Times
  • And it is happening right now, as you sit reading this, as each day brings in new reports of voters purged, machines "malfunctioning," ballots slyly misdesigned, and other measures meant to benefit McBush's party. Why they chose Sarah Palin and what to do about it
  • He slyly begins to manipulate the situation by playing Cyrano for both youngsters.
  • Below, another less obvious route twists off slyly to the south.
  • I can get a blanket if you want to keep staring at him," Mogget said slyly, twining himself around her ankles in a sensuous pavane. SABRIEL
  • In contrast to the dignified silence from the other side, even slyly whispered accusations are magnified to sound deafeningly crass.
  • Like Hoagy Carmichael, the composer of "Georgia on My Mind," Ray Charles had a natural affinity for the lie of the land: his voice could embrace the purple-mountained uplift of "America the Beautiful" and ramble slyly through back roads and shantytowns, too. The Lord’s Music and the Devil’s Words
  • Moreover, Lyly's preoccupation with mistaken identity may have influenced Shakespeare.
  • While the title character holds up a big VHS tape, you can grin slyly, knowing that you're watching this film on glorious DVD.
  • To amplify actin binding, we chose polylysine-coated polystyrene particles (PLY-PS), which directly nucleate actin filaments from their surfaces.
  • He uses extremely creative images of the devil and demons in order to slyly subvert our expectations.
  • Neil sipped slyly at the communion wine, thinking of the violent Norse heroines Trudi had described to him. RUSHING TO PARADISE
  • And then there are those who slyly attempt to make the commentator swear. Times, Sunday Times
  • “Delight Higgins,” Slyly Silas said as he pushed aside the dusty yellow cretonne curtain that separated his business from his house and entered the office. City of Glory
  • He slyly adds: "They were like enough to do it, for they were the arrantest apes in their religion I ever read of. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • ‘Hate to break it to you but… good ole mumsy isn't here’ Luke grinned slyly.
  • Sometimes the titles slyly reflected this double nature. Lost in Found Objects
  • I respond when I see people like you, cloked in pseudo objectivity, "slyly" pounding him down in hopes he will become a typical politician. Obama: It's Me Against The D.C. Foreign Policy Establishment
  • In a slyly clandestine work, Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles arranged for vendors to sell unflavored popsicles in front of the exhibition venues.
  • Seton-Karr declares sanctimoniously that the perpetrators were unknown, but slyly adds that among those rumored to be responsible, was a candidate for the state legislature.15 In a later chapter Seton-Karr mentions that Boney Earnest was running for election to the legislature. Bird Cloud
  • He slyly let the students' horse loose while they were grinding the corn, forcing them to rush after it, forgetting the meal.
  • During a picnic, she slyly offers to massage his feet.
  • From the street, the new interventions poke and peek out slyly above rooftops and through gaps in the street frontage.
  • As narrator Gina Moynihan slyly points out about her niece's education, the term "failure to love" is now favored in school over that heavy word "sin. StarTribune.com rss feed
  • Pratchett is a genius at writing humorous books that slyly show the state of human emotions and feelings. REVIEW: Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
  • He is full of little jokes, poshly spoken but slyly funny, indiscreet and competitive too. Times, Sunday Times
  • His mother looks around slyly, with a little smile on her face.
  • Cuthfert had been slyly watching through his half-closed lids. In a Far Country
  • He's nodding slyly at the secular sanctity of the pub.
  • The film is cleverly, almost slyly, political.
  • And today was sort of funny to me, that Mitt Romney came out and kind of slyly tried to criticize this Christmas Huckabee ad by saying, you know, I hope that he's sensitive to the diversity of faiths in this country. CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2007
  • Then he looks up at me, slyly, from under his eyebrows and I note sleek lashes, ticklish and fine. A MEANS TO EVIL
  • It's a quick, cheap, fun read that's entertaining and slyly apolitical.
  • Lyly declined English nouns as if they were Latin.
  • Unlike Lyly, Robert Greene is the dramatizer of actions rather than speeches. The Growth of English Drama

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