Sentence examples similar to curious fairy from inspiring English sources

Ms. Baldwin did eventually achieve some momentum with her curious fairy-tale effects and idiosyncratic humor, but it took a while.

"Silver's book is magical and parabolic, but it doesn't have the stark, curious language of a fairy tale.

Hovering above are three curious images: an angel, a fairy princess and a teacup and saucer.

Billed as a "Thai noodle and performance bar", it's a curious mix of hippy velvet drapes, fairy lights and cheap-cafe tables overlooking a jazz-bar stage.

I find it odd that Peyton Manning has seemingly replaced his brother, Eli, in the series of DirecTV N.F.L. Sunday Ticket ads that feature one of the Mannings and Deion Sanders as "football fairies," and I am curious as to what precipitated the change.

Rebecca Dudley's woodland creations — the faux, claylike trees and brambly twigs and carefully constructed leaves bring to mind fairy houses, and share their curious ability to mesmerize small children.

"I'll Let You Go" is a curious hybrid -- a lumpy blend of fairy tale, youth-detective story and haute ethnography, kind of like a collaboration between Dickens, Franklin W. Dixon and Robin Leach.

The film holds a 97% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 164 reviews, with an average rating of 8.5/10, and the consensus: "Spirited Away is a dazzling, enchanting, and gorgeously drawn fairy tale that will leave viewers a little more curious and fascinated by our world".

There are two explanations for the curious name of the hill that rises above this Transylvanian village of near-fairy-tale beauty: Dambu Lui Gaf, or the hill of panting.

(Scott)20100401 ★ 'BLUEBEARD' (No rating, 1 20, in French) In her sly, bifurcated rethink of this freakily morbid fairy tale, the French filmmaker Catherine Breillat ("Romance") focuses on Bluebeard and his dangerously curious wife, along with two little girls in the modern era who revisit the tale.

Or if English Fairy Painting is your cup of tea, you will enjoy a fine example of that curious genre at Maas in a small picture in a twiggy frame by John Austen Fitzgerald.