How To Use Fairy In A Sentence

The little divil that stole the dog-team an 'wint over the Pass in the dead o' winter for to see where the world come to an ind on the ither side, just because old Matt McCarthy was afther tellin 'her fairy stories? CHAPTER I
There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests expressly for those in love, — in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there are hedges and scholars. Les Miserables
The magic of the elves is a twilight thing, the sound of distant silver horns, a fairy gold that turns to dust by noonday, and it is meant to chide the pride of foolish mortal men. MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2)
This kid friendly fairy tale about an unsightly ogre was both heartwarming and very funny.
Other people's fairy tales always is romantic, but my fairy tale but never be miserable.

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But before we declare this the happy ending of a feminist fairytale, we must look at the more sinister afterword.
Wen son, you await here, I quest big ice-cubes apology" Yi snow more thinks more uneasy, directly rush out to inebriate fairy building.
Their vices and their virtues and their music, and their greed and their fairyism and their militarism, all seem to have been roasted in a hurry, and to contain, like red meat, the natural juices to an extent that seems to us excessive. This Is the End
The swimming pool was decorated with fairy lights and floating candles and a table for the intimate party of 12 was set outside.
Check out the pincushion hakea with its pointy-tipped nuts like fairy bells; the teak pods that open up like wooden flowers, and the large woody pears with slightly furry grey skin that's very soft to the touch.
Based on a Korean fairy-tale, this light and witty piece of chinoiserie tells the story of a Mandarin's daughter who is engaged to a rich Ambassador but loves an impoverished youth.
Slowly, Dummy regains both his voice and his confidence, and finally, in a fairy-tale ending, even his identity when King Richard recognizes him as his long-lost godson.
The fairy tale romance has come to an abrupt and totally unexpected end.
Complete with wobbly bridges, turrets and wonky roof lines, it looks as if it comes straight from the pages of a fairytale. Times, Sunday Times
His answer offers no fairy tales of salvation or a paradisiacal afterlife. Michael Brenner: The Buddha As Icon
She listens as to a fairy tale, and then I tell her of the stellar crystals concealed in the rough crust of the amygdaloid. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
They're the cruddy ones no one wants, not the spectacular, awesome ones with fairy wings and gypsy stallions with big manes," she says. Virtual Products, Real Profits
Everywhere in the 19th century students of folklore itself a newly invented word plumped up their local legends, sagas and fairy tales just as much as Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner did in Germany. Hitler's Golden Book
As Matthew Woodcock points out, there have been many studies of queenliness in Spenser's The Faerie Queene, but very few that made sense of the poet's use of fairy.
She looked like a graceful winter fairy - a model - a princess - a… he couldn't even find the right words to describe her she was so impossibly beautiful.
The crowd cheered on the unknown Tunisian, hoping for a fairy-tale ending to the race.
The pitch: A kid has the ability to enter storyland, where he teams up with three other fairy tale characters to solve problems. A geek parent’s guide to kids’ edutainment
The show follows the traditional plot of the fairytale story but with plenty of comedy and slapstick to keep the crowds entertained for both evening and matinee performances.
Myths and rituals get worked over by time and human creativity until the originals show through only in glimmers; fairy tales gain and lose characters, nastiness, and motif depending on the era in which we live. Archive 2007-10-01
And coming up in the second half of RELIABLE SOURCES, Bill Clinton blasts the press for perpetuating what he calls a fairy tale. CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2008
Many other trial records evidently contain allusions to fairies which have been cloaked with demonological definition, however only those which contain direct references to fairies will be used as evidence of popular fairy belief.
Yet lumpish Jane's fairytale romance is left stranded on the roadside by the self-centered pragmatism of robbers on the run.
The endings of fairytales used to be a lot more gruesome too. Times, Sunday Times
These were substantially built of timber and talipots, thatched with cadjans and bamboo leaves, and festooned and decorated as the Singhalese only can decorate - leaves, flowers and fruit being entwined together with so much delicacy and airy tastefulness as to impart an almost fairy-like form to the pavilion.
Over the eons, they grew smaller and eventually became known as the Sidhe or fairy folk, but even today they continue to inhabit and protect wooded glens and fields, streams, and bogs, still practicing their magic rituals. News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
I think, when I was a kid, I was always really fascinated with folk music and folk tales and fairytales and have always just kind of harbored this fascination with them. Colin Meloy: '10-Dollar Words' For A Cause
And once their fairytale officially ended, relations between them became the stuff of Shakespearean drama, with intrigues, infidelities and fights for centre-stage.
It is all typical of the dismissive attitude adopted by those at the Executive who seem to think that an airy-fairy, and probably timorous, arts lobby will go away if told that everything will be all right.
the children resembled a fairy herd
In the mud of their complacently perpetuated barnyard pond, they assert that no bright-browed, bright-apparelled shining figures can be outside of fairy books, old histories, and ancient superstitions. THE KANAKA SURF
Xiangyu butterfly museum, collect the nonesuch butterfly and shrink the natural fairy in one place.
The company played fairy godmother by deciding to sponsor the club for a further five years.
Although she had monitored the racing at Fairyhouse by teletext throughout Sunday afternoon, she had no idea that her first six wins meant she had €94,000 staked on the last race.
Her compositions featured decorative motifs inspired by nature, nodding to the mysterious world of fairytales and their enchanted gardens. Times, Sunday Times
Had the question been asked in that enchanted hall in fairyland, where all interrogations must be answered with absolute sincerity, Darsie had certainly replied, that he took her for the most frank-hearted and ultra-liberal lass that had ever lived since Mother Eve eat the pippin without paring. Redgauntlet
If a painfully hip novel set in the European fashion industry didn't contain the requisite amount of preening egomania, airy-fairy posturing and general preposterousness, you would probably ask for your money back.
Once, in the cold noon of a lovely day of frost, when the lightest step crackled with the breaking of multitudinous crystals, when the trees were fringed with furry white, and the old spider-webs glimmered like filigrane of fairy silver, they met on a lonely country-road. St. George and St. Michael
They believe in the Tooth Fairy myth, the myth of the vestal virgin. Penthouse Founder Bob Guccione Dies At 79
So suspend your imagination for a moment, and look at the following fairy tales as a hard-core scientist might.
It's like giving kids fairyfloss for dinner and saying - 'but it is food, and food is good'. Devil's Advocate
Fairies as commonly understood in fables and fairy tales are not of that sort. Bradley Monton's Paper criticizing Dover Decision
Children need to be aware of the real world, not force-fed trite fairytales.
Someone has cannily spotted this unquenched desire, and decided that the best solution would be to create Girl Heaven, a fairytale palace stacked to the rafters with pink and shiny trinkets.
Their hosts include weaverbirds and sunbirds in Africa and Asia, as well as fairy wrens and thornbills in Australia.
Her dress was straight out of a fairytale, with its light, graceful layers that served to accentuate the woman's slim build.
Feast Your Eyes was a modern fairytale about food and mealtimes. Times, Sunday Times
Anyone who thinks they can see anything from a glass-bottomed boat is living in airy-fairy land - the North Sea being notoriously bad for underwater visibility.
A river mage is called upon to investigate the water ghosts seen in London and surmises that the Queen's rival, the fairy of the under-hill, is mounting an attack. REVIEW: Other Earths edited by Nick Gevers and Jay Lake
It's a modern-day fairy tale, folks, because, you see, they did get on the telly after all.
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A Christmas window display in the shop of Messrs Tipping and Lee, coal merchants, Brook Street, Ilkley, was burned out through the fusing of an electric fairy light which formed part of the decorations.
I only care about Fairy Tail and Natsu and the others 'struggle to stop the dragon chain cannon from slamming the lachryma into the island successfully. Anime Nano!
This set combines modern fashion trends with light and bright materials, creating fairy-tale ambiance full of tenderness and chicness. Girls Bedroom Design Ideas by Pm4, Pampered in Luxury
They don't write fairy tales about premiers or presidents.
I have seldom been so moved by the reconciliation of the lovers, human and fairy.
The classic English fairy tale is embellished with elegant visual sweeps of the beanstalk and the castle in the sky.
That song was written by Ewan MacColl, the father of Kirsty MacColl, who of course dueted with the Pogues on that unlikeliest of holiday classics, "Fairytale of New York. Michael Giltz: Music: The Pogues For St. Patrick's Day? Brilliant
The fairy-tale confection of John's architecture lit up purple and white.
The reconstruction of the camp as a stone building rather than a more realistic wooden frame complex adds to the fairy-tale setting.
Even so, the synonymy of 'elf' and 'fairy' should be regarded as a working assumption which requires fuller examination.
The fairy pitta is one of the most precious birds in Linnei Township and is listed as a critically endangered species.
Ahead of me was a miniature fairy castle, etched in coral with moats and ports and bastioned towers. F&S Classic: Five Fathoms Down
CINDERELLA EATS RICE AND BEANS is a contemporary, Latin-American Cinderella musical that delightfully turns the classic fairy tale on its head, telling the story from both Cinderella and her stepsisters 'perspectives. BroadwayWorld.com Atlanta Stories
An old Chinese myth "rebottled" like old wine in new skin, Lifetime Fairytale takes us on an emotional journey through both time and space. BroadwayWorld.com Boston Stories
Their standard fairy tale is that millionaires are overtaxed and this acts as a drag on growth.
Schmidt, on the other hand, never used the term collateral damage -- or any similar term, because that would have completely undermined her fairy tale of righteous indignation. Gary S. Chafetz: Review of Casino Jack and the United States of Money by Alex Gibney
It smells softly of rose and contains tiny pieces of fairy glitter designed to sparkle subtly - guaranteed to make you look like the cat's miaow.
a kelpie is an imaginary water sprite, you know, and a pixy is a-- a-- why, a sort of make-believe fairy who lives in the water. Patty in Paris
The translation of story collections from other cultures reinforced the popularity of the fairy story: the Fables of Bidpai had reached England from the Arabic in North's version of 1570, and were republished in French in 1697.
Princesses with golden curls, a raven mane or shiny red tresses having adventures are what fairy tales are all about.
The Duchess of Cambridge looks like a fairy-tale princess because she is slim and pulchritudinous, but ostensibly it's the long, blow-dried locks that ice the cake; ditto her potential lady in waiting, sister Pippa. The Taming of 'The Do'
It assumes we haven't evolved from those kindergarten days when we believed in the tooth fairy and in the stork as the source of babies.
The fairy king and queen were contending over possession of the cat.
If you're bored with Hollywood blockbusters and want a change from feel-good schmaltz, then I'd recommend this twisted family fairy tale.
Other jobs on offer are for a Fairy Penguin home remodeller on IcLiverpool
I believe in the fairy story u wrote for me, and myself becomes the faint flower in the story.
The fairy's magic changed the two brothers into swans.
This fairytale city is equal parts European sophistication, stunning scenery and romance.
‘Please take care not to step on the shadows,’ it asks, as if you were about to enter a fairyland, and, in a way, you are.
Tess arrived with some fairy wings in her luggage while Donna brought an old-fashioned wooden popgun.
Stars hung from the ceiling interwoven with fairy lights and glitter decorated every surface.
All the great fairytales and myths are full of loss and longing. Times, Sunday Times
Ritson also published several popular collections and anthologies of songs, children's verses, fairy stories, etc.
The idea seems to be to live out a neverending fairytale celebrity existence on camera, protected from real reality by an incestuously close relationship with the E! network. Philippa Warr: Why Reality Television Isn't Real
There is a fairytale about a man who is given three wishes but wastes them. Times, Sunday Times
They were before the magical portal that would lead her to the fairyland.
She had, it is true, no fortune, but that of my friend was ample; and he delighted in the anticipation of indulging her in every elegant pursuit, and administering to those delicate tastes and fancies that spread a kind of witchery about the sex. — “Her life,” said he, “shall be like a fairy tale.” The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
With the soft music in the background, the room seemed alive, and the small, twinkling colored sparks of light turned the room into a fairyland full of stars.
It's like that fairy tale where vipers and toads jump out of the mouth of the accursed mean little girl when she tries to speak.
Two major techniques are the transfiguration of classical fairytales, and the integration of traditional motifs with contemporary references within atypical settings and plotlines.
I can't remember the last time I heard the word "widdershins" outside of a fairy tale, but reading it had a big impact on how I read the novel and read the characters. Truth and Consequences
Famous for dressing stars such as Rihanna, Blake Lively, Naomi Campbell and Penelope Cruz in their fairytale-esque creations, the British design duo behind the label couldn't resist the opportunity to make over the Playboy bunny in Marchesa. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
If they can't wait long enough to ice fairy cakes, have some extra that can be eaten immediately.
The fly agaric or fairy toadstool grows here too, especially under birch along with other woodland fungi.
Less pardonable is the reduction of Lincoln's complex politics to fuzzy psychological concepts like "growth," transforming the story of what was indeed a fiery political trial into a therapeutic fairy tale. The Path To Proclamation
Snow White was assisted by the seven dwarfs in the fairy tale.
But no sooner had the gaoler's feet touched the fairy ring, than he saw and heard like the rest, and he called lustily to the chaplain to come and stop the unhallowed measure. Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales
He gave unlucky Derby second Silver Patriarch a typically-robust ride to take the St Leger of 1997, and the crowd's roar of acclamation that day showed just how much they wanted Eddery to crown his career in fairytale style.
It's computer-graphics with bright colors, so it looks a bit like some of these recent Fairytale pictures (Shrek, Happily Never After,) and it tells the story of a boy named Alex who grew up spending his nights in dreamland, who then hasn't dreamed in eight years. The Dreamland Chronicles
One of the more gushing newspapers described the occasion as 'a fairy-tale wedding'.
None of them are what might be called happy-slappy, airy-fairy wedges of news.
The princess in the fairy story had long silken hair.
The sweet wonderful note of a wood thrush, somewhere far out of sight, assured me, what everything conspired to assure me, that I was certainly in fairyland, not on the common earth. Daisy
The back story begins with BreAnn Brown, the figure skater playing the title fairy, sitting on an intricately designed giant mushroom in the middle of the ice. Victorville Daily Press :
Fairy basslets and sweepers hover over a plate coral decorated with feeding featherstar crinoids in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
At night, it looks out on a fairyland of Manhattan's glittering lights.
One of their major discoveries concerned Australian passerines: birds like fairy-wrens, Austra-Papuan robins and woodswallows had all been placed in different groups of Old World birds, as suggested by their names.
1795: These anticke fables, nor these Fairy toyes, A Midsummer Night's Dream (1623 First Folio Edition)
The libretto is based on Perrault's familiar fairytale, but Petipa did much more with it than tell the story of Aurora's 100-year sleep and magical awakening.
Malice and heartburning were out of the question with a lissom, winsome, witching fairy like this, who played with her life as a child does with soap-bubbles, and who was as elusory and irresponsible as a summer-day rainbow. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
A white drawing on black paper depicts from various angles a school of the menacing fairy-tale creatures, variously ornamented with stripes, scallops and spikes.
It is a modern-day fairy tale complete with magic, an ogre, brave deeds, and the ultimate triumph of good over evil.
Her face looked peaceful, lit by ethereal moonlight filtering through the ghostly branches of the fairy tree.
She's the Fairy Godmother and I can exclusively reveal that she DID do all the singing.
The kiss was a fairytale ending to the evening.
On our visit the restaurant was decked out for the festive season, with myriad glinting fairy lights and the obligatory sprinkling of canned snow around the windows.
Winsome tutued ballerinas and fairytale productions are not the answer, he says. Times, Sunday Times
Located in the Vendée, it is the definition of fairytale, with "floating" towers on the corners of the chateau and flamboyant interiors featuring unicorn taxidermy and chandeliers. Nouveau riches: what's new in France
Now, miserable black dwellings, a black canal, and sick black towers of chimneys; now, a trim garden, where the flowers were bright and fair; now, a wilderness of hideous altars all a-blaze; now, the water meadows with their fairy rings; now, the mangy patch of unlet building ground outside the stagnant town, with the larger ring where the The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
Yes, it's absolute cobblers, a self-parodying mash-up of fairytale and pop culture. Times, Sunday Times
I will make life so hard for these wretched lummoxes who pass for my servants that the atrocities of Ivan the Terrible will seem like a fairy-picnic!
London, a marvellous fairyland to her; tell her of "rags" in which he had played the leading part; of things he had done when he was in Rio for three months -- Rio! the very name enthralled her! Captivity
Because if sagas make contemporary war stories pale into nothingness, the old fairy tales make contemporary horror seem like nice, sweet stories dreamed up by the boys at Disney.
Here was I, a ballet girl who had taken a cold whose proportions simply towered over that nursed by the leading lady's self; and as I slipped and slid slushily homeward, I asked myself angrily what a fairy was to do with a handkerchief, -- and in heaven's name, what was that fairy to do without one. Stage Confidences
Naturally, all of these adornments, together with the elimination of ambiguous, controversial or indelicate elements, imply the contamination of the traditional fairytale material.
Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms'fairy tales.
Fairy Godmother: Well, well, hopping, my dear. We can't waste time.
So about that dude in a cetacean stomach … Idiotic fairytale or stunning reality …. Think Progress » Missouri lawmaker: Allowing gays to serve openly increases a military’s casualty rate.
Black Narcissus is a fairy tale crossed with sexy nuns locked in feverish desire with a soupcon about the fading British empire. Michael Giltz: Movies: "Blimp" Is Back! British Gem Is Beautifully Restored
The princess and the fairy mage were bound by ropes as prisoners on a covered wagon drawn by two horses that didn't seem quite normal.
Ay -- an Edward shovelboard [Note 5], and a new shilling o 'King James, and three groats o' Queen Bess -- that's not fairy silver, I 'count. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
I thought that here was a fit illustration for a fairy tale; then I remembered the Colonel's account of how he had awakened in the act of entering this romantic plaisance, and I was touched anew by an unrestfulness, by a sense of the uncanny. Bat Wing
Anumbers of Fairy shrimp swam around in the paddy field.
But in spite of the film's fairy tale ending, the story's unflinching portrayal of class distinction in teendom is the reason that Pretty In Pink packed such an emotional wallup during its original, Reagan-era run, and the reason it still affects people so deeply in today's economically challenging times. Susannah Gora: Pretty in Pink at 25: Still a Class Act
The fairy king and queen were contending over possession of the cat.
WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: And happening now: Bill Clinton returns to what he calls a fairy tale. CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2008
The crowd cheered on the unknown Tunisian, hoping for a fairy-tale ending to the race.
He was the author of the relief illustrating the life of S. Gemignano upon the façade of the Duomo at Modena, and some of the beautiful and delicate marble reliefs set in the polychromatic front of the Oratory of S. Bernardino at Perugia, and the fairy-like low relief (bassissimi rilievi) panels that decorate the interior of the temple of Michael Angelo Buonarroti
It is a fairy tale with links at various points to The Magic Flute, though there is less knockabout and more gentle humour in Henze's comedy.
Pocket, who had been expelled from the company by common consent, went sulkily away towards her hammock, for she was the fairy of the calceolaria, and looked rather wicked. Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
How did we get suckered by the fairy tale that as long as people kept shopping, the market could keep our prosperity going as far as the eye could see?
Comus is a sort of fairy tale about chastity — a mask, actually. Some Milton « Unknowing
It's an airy-fairy philosophical concept that even the experts can't satisfactorily define.
In Denmark, the Pacific might seem like a distant fairyland.
The world, as the Indian boy knows it from fairy tale and folklore, has seven seas and thirteen rivers. Tr.
We found a couple that were not too touristy and not of the airy-fairy, fluffy-bunny variety, which was refreshing. "...our ghosts to wander all the water."
Is the whole idea that there possibly could be something more to it just some idealistic fairytale notion?
They were dreams come true, hard and indubitable realizations of fairy gossamers. Chapter XI
Today only the church remains.020-7836 5221The classic, half-timbered style that launched a thousand 20th-century "Tudorbethan" eyesores rarely reached Moreton's levels of artistry back in the day, but this fairy-tale edifice testifies to the continuous prosperity and experimentation of the era. The Renaissance in Britain: examples from the era
Lotus, a small Lotus-Fairy with short white hair and coral pink skin sprinkled with golden pollen.
Is it just a deeper than normal journey into adolescent angst or a modern fairy tale?
Without getting too airy-fairy about it, my family are really important to me, so my career is slightly tempered by that.
Stories of angels, princes and princesses of far-away lands and fairy tales would certainly carry off children to a new world, where their imagination could take on wings.
Well, he was at the top afore you could cry 'trapstick,' and it wasn't long till I was at the top too, and there we found a gate opening into the hill, and a power of lords and ladies waiting to resave Mahoon, who I larned was their king, and who had been away from his kingdom for twenty years, by rason of his being shut up in the box by some great fairy-man. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841
It's probably because we were force-fed all those fairy tales from infancy, where everyone lives happily ever after at the end, but I don't see why the world can't work that way simply because it doesn't at the moment.
They made 42nd Street - the story of a girl plucked from the chorus to the lead role in a Broadway musical - more than just a fluffy fairy tale.
This is a darksome, deft and knowing account of how a fairy tale came true.
Every language had its stock of lullabies, nursery rhymes, nonsense verses, fairytales and simple stories.
Please, ....... just more fairytale drivel from the empty-headed rightwing of this country. SC Republican gov candidate jabs Sanford in announcement
The Picture of Dorian Gray fantasizes a world where middle-aged hedonists can be forever boys, equated in a timeless plane composed half out of lust, half out of the wish-fulfilling visions of the fairy story.
Many fairy tales portray women as victims.
The brass door-knocker was in the shape of a fairy. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
Based on long poem by Joseph Rodman Drake, this highly programmatic rhapsody describes the labors a male fairy must complete to be forgiven for falling in love with a mortal woman.
It had snowed heavily during the night and in the morning the garden was a white fairyland.
Like the princess in a fairy-tale forest, she'd free the jewel from its stinging enchantment, quickly polish it to high luster, then royally present it.
Sleeping Beauty lay under the wicked fairy's spell until the prince woke her with a kiss.
There is a bogle or a brownie, a witch or a gyre-carlin, a bodach or a fairy, in the case?” Chronicles of the Canongate
It had snowed heavily during the night and in the morning the garden was a white fairyland.
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. Stephen Hawking
Lord Menteith as being the lightest and most fairy figure that ever trode the turf by moonlight. A Legend of Montrose
There is a fairyland for children at the Schlossplatz and an open-air ice-skating rink is set up in front of the castle.
Well, keep them in fairyland then, or at least only let them out for visits now and then. Little Miss Peggy: Only a Nursery Story
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There are many stories about the nymphs in Roman fairy tales.
It's a modern-day fairy tale, folks, because, you see, they did get on the telly after all.
I have been ensorcelled, bewitched, wrapped up in a fairy love that only I feel. Exit the Actress
He told her of the fairy mill, of the old man's gloating pride in the word miser, of All Souls 'Eve and Adam Craig's hints about the apple tree and the lilac bush. Kenny
In this sense, the Web preserves the main value of the fairy tale, that is, its illimitable capacity of homemaking.
So, amid fairytale fire torches and twinkling candles, we were led to our very own reindeer sleigh in the middle of an enchanted snow forest. The Sun
The fairy twin brother of the devil one went back to England and took pills after festers caused by AIDS have dotted all over him, leaving his late life mate agonise alone.
I remember that there were lots of fairy tales that included giants of all kinds, from the ogres to some of the more ‘kindly’ giants.
Bagdad, "a fairy tale --" Lady Lucy's Petition, "an historiette --" the The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 397, November 7, 1829
Her books are often based on folklore and fairy-tales.
So the interventionist script reduces the historical and political complexities of the Darfur conflict to a fairytale. Times, Sunday Times
The imaginative child made up fairy stories.
Her compositions featured decorative motifs inspired by nature, nodding to the mysterious world of fairytales and their enchanted gardens. Times, Sunday Times
There are no traditional rules or rigid formality or fairy tale settings involving tormented love between a man and woman.
It's wonderfully at odds with the naivety of the fairytale strings and Clark's choirgirl vocals, conjuring up a hazy world in which nothing seems quite stable, a state helped along by the addition of magnificently oddball heavy riffs and stuttering synths. St Vincent: Strange Mercy – review
Plans are continuing apace for the Fairymount National School centenary celebrations later in the year.
This ability might represent an escalation in an arms race between superb fairy-wrens and cuckoos, the researchers suggest in the March 13 Nature.
It was only after they were married that she began to see the flip side of the fairy tale.
There is a fairytale about a man who is given three wishes but wastes them. Times, Sunday Times
Repeating these fairy tales does no one any good (and, moreover, misinforms your readers).
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. Stephen Hawking
I'm trying to conjure up the good-fairy presence, trying to get her to pay attention to me.

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