Sentence examples for belief in fairies from inspiring English sources

Marina Warner - Writer From Queen Mab to Peter Pan, belief in fairies was of vital importance.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's belief in fairies and spirit worlds was not, as Galchen suggests, based solely on irrational faith.

But although my nine-year-old is reaching the limits of belief in fairies, it's not just the magic that's fading.

At the first night of Peter Pan, Olive looks at how family members are reacting to the plea that they show their belief in fairies by clapping.

Religion in most secular institutions, for instance, is at best thought of as an important sociological phenomenon to understand — but is very often criticized as an inherently violent, backward force in our culture, akin to belief in fairies and dragons.

And then the horrible appeal to the audience comes, that they should play "let's pretend" too and assert their belief in fairies, to clap their hands and save Tinkerbell's life.

I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

Although belief in fairy creatures was strong in medieval England, it faded into a quaint fancy among educated Elizabethans.

A song like "Some Enchanted Evening," one of the high points of Monday's concert (the season finale of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series), was made for a singer like Ms. Peters, whose voice projects a stubborn belief in fairy tale endings.

Carrie Manolakos, as the dad-seeking Sophie, glowed with a convincing belief in her fairy tale.

Who's the real aggressor, they rightly ask, secularists who compare belief in God to fairies or a pope who compares secularists with Nazis?