Example sentences for: fairy-tale

How can you use “fairy-tale” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Culturebox's first thought on reading Diana: In Search of Herself , Sally Bedell Smith's deliriously mean-spirited (though boringly written) catalog of all the ways the late fairy-tale princess turns out to have been troubled, trite, and exasperating, is that the British public didn't get its money's worth from the girl.

  • Up to this point, with rare exceptions, business on the Internet has seemed to exist in this fairy-tale realm where no one ever gets fired, where expenses are irrelevant, and where all losses are tolerated as simply necessary investments in the future.

  • By curious coincidence, this fairy-tale conjunction of appealing nymphets and gory murder is currently the subject of an unusual show at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York: an exhibition of eccentrically magnificent watercolors by the late painter and writer Henry Darger.

  • The glimpse it gives into the manic highs and lows of female adolescent friendship as seen through a tortured trio of friends in the twilight of Communist Poland is remarkably vivid--full of symbolism, magic realism, and fairy-tale qualities--but most reviewers call the book as a whole a near miss.

  • Museums that will appeal to children are the Fry Model Railway Museum at Malahide Castle Estate (see page 75), while the National Wax Museum (Granby Row, Dublin 1; Tel. 872 6340) has a special “Children’s World” tableau depicting well-known fairy-tale characters and a Hall of the Megastars devoted to pop musicians.


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