Lois
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Lois Norris, representing Coates, said the application was an "ambush by Mr Harrison's legal team".
From BBC
He was first rendered with clean lines and broad shoulders in the series of Fleischer Studios cartoons that began with a 1941 short where Superman goes head-to-head with a mad scientist who has imprisoned Lois Lane, performing incredible feats of strength along the way.
The 1970s were a humanistic era of filmmaking, defined by filmmakers ranging from Martin Scorsese to Hal Ashby, and Reeve chose to locate the human in Superman not through his nervous Clark, but through the genuine tension in his romance with Lois Lane, then played by Margot Kidder.
After Reeve hung up the cape, other versions would follow, using Superman’s love life to find his pathos—among them the television shows “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” and “Smallville,” the latter of which focused on Clark’s hormonal teen years.
Shuddering, he bolted from the PT room and back into the corridor, where he very nearly rammed right into a resident named Lois Stein, who was sitting in an easy chair, doing her daily crossword puzzle, with the help of a magnifying glass that made the eight-point font in the newspaper legible to her eighty-nine-year.old eyes.
From Literature
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