Nonetheless, in a gown designed to evoke fairy-tale imaginings, Lady Diana Spencer -- Queen Victoria's great-great-great-grandson's starry-eyed young bride -- embodied the "princess myth" like no other.
It's a phrase that inevitably evokes fairy tales and leather-bound classics about epic adventures, setting up the anticipation that readers will discover worlds filled with magic.
When the "Little House" books were first published, beginning in the thirties, the illustrations, primarily by Helen Sewell, had an Old World quality, with a visual style that evokes fairy tales and woodcuts.
The movie evokes fairy tales, like the big bad wolf in the form of a heart breaking theater critic; yes, there is a happy ending.
For me, the final scenes do evoke a fairy tale, and they also underline the notion that Bridget and Angela's relationship is a romance.
A dense fog, created by a grid of misters, evokes a fairy tale setting.
The dining table, a giant tree stump surrounded by smaller stumps, evokes a fairy banquet hall, but it is no longer warmed by her father's country cooking.
Just as Pabst might evoke some fairy-tale notion of blue-collar, union-strong Milwaukee, so, too, does the old Miller Lite can suggest a nebulous idea about the American past — one generic enough to let young people fill in the gaps themselves.
Weirleigh evokes that fairy-tale Victorian land of knights and castles, a small-scale dream-world of the sanitized but romantic past: that of Shalott or Tennyson's 'moated grange' yet more like 'the black bat night' than a visionary dawn...
It's probably no coincidence that, within that skeletal framework, Slender Man also evokes some familiar fairy tale elements; psychologists are finding that there is good reason that those stories often follow certain set formulae.
