fairy story
Example Sentences
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Michelle Mone's public life was a self-created fairy story which many in business, politics, and especially the media, bought into.
From BBC • May 25, 2025
“This is sort of a fairy story — I’d never done anything onstage in my life, but I wrote to Britten and I said, ‘I think I am eminently suited to the role of Oberon.’”
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023
McKay notes that Tolkien emerged from World War I with a complex fairy story, unlike many of his literary peers who were writing about wastelands and darkness.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2022
If catastrophe born of farcical obtuseness awaits – how else to depict it but as a fairy story?
From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2017
Seem like now that Robert was gone, I’d feel better, but I was feeling like a fairy story and the children heading into the dark woods.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
