Words similar to lily

Example sentences for: lily

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You could imagine, for example, Edith Wharton writing of Boothe, as she did of Lily Bart, that to Miss Boothe, "acquiescence in dinginess was evidence of stupidity; and there were moments when, in the consciousness of her own power to look and be so exactly what the occasion required, she almost felt that other girls were plain or inferior from choice."
This is essentially a twilit remake of his wonderful 1977 thriller, The Late Show , in which a senior citizen shamus (Art Carney) wrestles with both a brutal murder and the innumerable humiliations of aging (they're connected), happily assisted by a New Age flake (Lily Tomlin, in her most exuberant screen performance).
Lent lily is the older name for the daffodil.
"Get Bruce is exactly the kind of documentary we all want to have made about ourselves, in which it is revealed that we are funny, smart, beloved, the trusted confidant of famous people, the power behind the scenes at great events and the apple of our mother's eye" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Vilanch has written for just about every current big-screen celebrity, and Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, and Rosie O'Donnell (to name-drop a few) appear in the film singing his praises.
A myosin isolated from lily pollen has been shown to be responsible for cytoplasmic streaming in pollen tubes and two myosins were identified in tobacco cell cultures that are also thought to participate in cytoplasmic streaming [ 37, 71].