Sentence examples for elements of fairy from inspiring English sources

In his novels and short stories, Mr. Mo paints sprawling, intricate portraits of Chinese rural life, often using flights of fancy — animal narrators, elements of fairy tales — that evoke the lyrical techniques of South American magical realists.

That's what I really wanted this to feel like, and so when I read the script with its true-crime horror I wondered how we could bring out the fanciful, hyperreal boy's adventure in it, almost to bring out elements of fairy tales, like 'Hansel and Gretel.' So a lot of it was to take something based on actual incidents and bring a fanciful frame to it".

John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner contains both elements of fairy tales and of much older, Celtic mythology.

The five candid and emotionally charged sex scenes focus on their upper bodies and faces, and on their erotic monologues that employ elements of fairy tale, horror, and sadomasochism.

The story of the "shining prince" Genji is set in the late 9th to early 10th centuries, and Murasaki eliminated from it the elements of fairy tales and fantasy frequently found in earlier monogatari.

It's not faerie gold, but there is an element of fairy tale.

It's the ultimate fairy tale, the one that takes every essential element of fairy tales and dials it up to 11.

Twentieth-century psychologists, notably Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Bruno Bettelheim, have interpreted elements of the fairy tale as manifestations of universal fears and desires.

So what's useful to us is having Dumbo ears".* A great V.C. keeps his ears pricked for a disturbing story with the elements of a fairy tale.

"The Robber Bridegroom," for example, incorporates elements of folklore, fairy tales, classical myths and legends of the Mississippi River and the Natchez Trace, the road of pioneer days that stretched from Natchez, Miss., to Nashville.

Many familiar elements of favourite fairy tales are here – a handsome prince, a wicked stepmother, a giant fish, plenty of magic, darkness and betrayal, love and sacrifice – and the feel is timeless, but the stories are all original, touched with the magic of Gavin's vibrant and varied imagination.