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changeling

[cheynj-ling] / ˈtʃeɪndʒ lɪŋ /


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That metaphor of the outcast changeling, rejected for who she is at her core by a rigid society, earned a loyal following — and accolades, including an Eisner Award and a National Book Award nomination.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 15, 2023

I am also wondering if Vadic’s boss — obscured by, uh, changeling goo — is someone we will find familiar in the future.

From New York Times Mar. 9, 2023

A New York Times review of the film said Oberon had "perfectly caught the restless, changeling spirit of the Brontë heroine".

From BBC Apr. 15, 2022

I just wish it were enough that Bloom might be the first changeling at her school in ages; why does she also have to be the savior figure?

From Slate Jan. 28, 2021

It was as if he were a changeling, a troubled child not so secretly adopted by the Icelanders, but with love and without foreboding.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

His grand idea was to lure the changelings from the Shrike, a superior ship, onto the Titan?

From New York Times Mar. 30, 2023

Worf references a “Deep Space Nine” story line, in which Starfleet nearly wiped out the changelings by engineering a virus to infect them during the Dominion War.

From New York Times Mar. 23, 2023

“The Changeling” by Victor LaValle uses as its inspiration the stories of changelings, false doubles left in place of human children who are stolen by fairies.

From Washington Post Jun. 16, 2020

At one point, Bella thinks, “O changelings of the world: we go up and down the ladder in this circus called life, and we are more entertaining than clowns, more grotesque than freaks.”

From The New Yorker May 1, 2017

Neither man nor woman, neither and both, cyclic, lunar, metamorphosing under the hand’s touch, changelings in the human cradle, they were no flesh of mine, no friends; no love between us.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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