fairy story
Example Sentences
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“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
One excited listener wrote: "I first clapped the phones to my ears, a recitation was in progress, and then a voice announced 'Now, children, listen to this lovely fairy story'."
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2022
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
It is sometimes a little too folksy and fairy story, but contemporary strangeness wins out, and it is throughout something to behold.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2014
This is a story on the level of the fairy story.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
