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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

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

The cast and crew are required to be vaccinated; an actor who played the changeling child in “Midsummer” was taken out of the cast because he was too young to be vaccinated.

From New York Times Sep. 21, 2021

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

But nevertheless, Vadic also reveals that she and nine other changelings were experimented on by Starfleet as prisoners of war, as part of Project Proteus.

From New York Times Mar. 30, 2023

Although Starfleet eventually came up with a cure — thanks Dr. Bashir! — it radicalized some changelings along the way.

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

Little human changelings, raised in Faerie, but not educated with the Gentry as we are.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black




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