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:

  • The fairy-tale version of the Star Wars legacy, promulgated in most of this week's retrospectives/reviews, is that it reacquainted America with the magic of myth, sacred lore, and the romantic quest.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Culturebox has not read Grass' 1987 novel The Rat , but Ian Buruma has described it as "tales of the end of mankind, with the German chancellor riding through the forest in which concentration-camp victims disguised as mutilated fairy-tale characters were roaming around the poisoned trees."


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