Sentence examples for cautionary fairy from inspiring English sources

The resulting images suggest cautionary fairy tales intended to induce proper behavior, but in adults rather than children.

Like McDonagh's earlier, similarly gleeful and macabre yarns — "The Beauty Queen of Leenane," "The Cripple of Inishmaan," and "The Lonesome West" — "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" is a sort of cautionary fairy tale for our toxic times.

Inspired by the darker and more cautionary Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, "The Little Mermaid" was Disney's first animated film to feature a newly empowered breed of heroine who gets the prince but doesn't need saving by him.

Roots were scary, the cautionary stuff of fairy tales and folklore.

In this way, her novel might be seen as a cautionary tale, as many fairy tales are.

In outline, this narrative is as familiar as a fairy tale or a cautionary fable intended to warn young people away from the temptations that brought about the young man's undoing.

In among the Dennis Wheatley schlock and apocalyptic imagery, Sabbath could at times display a surprising sense of humour, as on Fairies Wear Boots, either a cautionary tale about hallucinogens or an inflammatory dig at skinheads, depending on whom you believe.

Morgan himself (1837-1913) owned many of the books, which range from the earliest cautionary stories (Aesop's fables and the Grimms' fairy tales) to the inspirational novels of Horatio Alger and the lighthearted verse of Edward Lear.

Instead of serving as either cautionary tale ("All About Eve") or upper-class urban fairy tale ("Sex and the City"), "Entourage" is just a story about some guys with a knack for making sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll look remarkably lackluster, as their repetitive banter blends into a muddled white noise of macho white-people ribbing.

What sets "Tuck Everlasting" apart from the usual fairy-tale fantasy of immortality, however, is its dark, cautionary note about the dangers of interrupting nature's progression.

But then the tone darkens and takes on the feel of a fairy story by the Brothers Grimm, or something out of those monstrous cautionary tales in Hoffmann's "Straw Peter".