Galatea

[ US /ˌɡæɫəˈtiə/ ]
[ UK /ɡælˈe‍ɪti‍ə/ ]
NOUN
  1. (Greek mythology) a maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers
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How To Use Galatea In A Sentence

  • Osama's Galatea is a sculpture whose ivory is an eschatology and exegesis plated with a Salafi-Wahhabi interpretation of Islam.
  • Feras mentes domat cupido, that fierce, cruel and rude Cyclops Polyphemus sighed, and shed many a salt tear for Galatea's sake. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • As an example, he mentioned the paradise-kingfisher group of species—Tanysiptera galatea and others—on mainland New Guinea and its satellite islands. The Song of The Dodo
  • Mayr postulated that, sometime in the past, a few pairs of Tanysiptera galatea happened to reach this little satellite from the mainland. The Song of The Dodo
  • He was paid well for La Galatea, a pastoral romance (a new popular genre); published in 1585.
  • When working, the Galatea tows a device called a dipole transmitter that sends low-frequency electromagnetic signals through the sea floor toward a suspected reservoir. Chron.com Chronicle
  • Her hands waft over the swimming skyscape like those of Galatea awakened by Venus in the Pygmalion sequence.
  • Galatea rises up from the sea, where she was hiding, and sings a long sort of scena, which showed off Ms. Le Roi's voice in a range of tempos and styles.
  • The translucent and shining waters of the calm sea covered fragments of old Roman villas, which were interlaced by sea-weed, and received diamond tints from the chequering of the sun-beams; the blue and pellucid element was such as Galatea might have skimmed in her car of mother of pearl; or Cleopatra, more fitly than the Nile, have chosen as the path of her magic ship. Introduction, I.1
  • Osama's Galatea was sculpted, conveniently, out of a love with the ideal of "defence" of the "Umma", the global Islamic community.
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