Sentence examples for a wicked stepsister from inspiring English sources

Under the Islamic regime, it became a wicked stepsister.

The fear of being abandoned by one's parents (Hansel and Gretel), or of being destroyed by (or destroying) a parent or sibling – always disguised as, say, a "wicked stepsister" or "stepmother" – recurs again and again, allowing children to access their darker fantasies.

The renewed desire of women from all walks of life to teeter around in leather and steel structures that even a longtime shoe maven like Ms. Garland can't relate to -- "I'm not going to wear shoes I have to squeeze my foot into like a wicked stepsister no matter how much I love them," she said -- has as much to do with altitude as attitude.

Though she doesn't have any wicked stepsisters in the traditional tale sense, she does have a whole entire "second-rate suburban town" full of sniping single women, trapped, like her, in the boredom of what we'd now call Bridge and Tunnel: so close to the city yet so far away.

But a growing body of academic research is suggesting that this benign force's wicked stepsister, a phenomenon two economists have dubbed "trickle-down consumption," is having a powerful impact on the economy and politics of the United States.

"You can end up with what I call 'the wicked stepsister syndrome,' " Mr. Michelson said, referring to the possibility that a surviving partner may end up owning the property with a relative of the deceased partner whose relationship with the survivor may be strained or even hostile.

8 P.M. (ABC Family) A CINDERELLA STORY: ONCE UPON A SONG (2011) Katie Lucy Halee) dreams of becoming a recording artist but is thwarted time and again by her cruel stepmother (Missi Pyle) and wicked stepsister (Megan Park).

Yes, stand in his shoes and make sure they fit perfectly like Cinderella's glass slipper, before you open your condescending, wicked stepsister, sneering mouth.

Plagued by ogres and wicked stepsisters, a girl tries to undo a fairy's spell that was cast on her at birth.

But there are no wicked stepsisters here.

Will that mixed message be enough to keep little Cinderellas from morphing into materialistic wicked stepsisters?