Sentence examples for fair damsel from inspiring English sources

A wisecracking frog, a fair damsel in disguise and a dragon that is far more ticklish than fierce also figure into the tale, which takes gleeful pleasure in upending fairy tale cliché.

Then there was Scott Pilgrim vs the World, which casts chinless Michael Cera as a badass indie kid, a hipster Hercules who battles "seven evil exes" in order to win his fair damsel.

A part-time meter man in Petaluma, Emmett sustains a head injury trying to rescue a fair damsel from a kidnapper, forgets his own identity and winds up on the streets.

Ditto for the late Michael Crichton's new page-flipper, Pirate Latitudes, complete with the motliest of motley crews, an Errol Flynn-ish buccaneer captain and his heroic rescue of a fair damsel in distress (the Jamaican governor's daughter).

The members of his Cabinet solved the problem by combing Israel in search of a young virgin of unusual beauty who would sleep with the king and keep him warm: "So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag..

Of all the European spaghetti westerns, sci-fi flicks and sparsely scripted fantasy adventures of ancient heroes saving fair damsels and suffering hordes, Mitchell's most noted film probably was Federico Fellini's 1970 "Fellini Satyricon". Mitchell played a robber in the colorful portrait of ancient Roman debauchery, which is still an art-house favorite.

White women have to learn and relearn that we are not the point, difficult though that may be when sexism already insists, that we are not the point (but uses us as fair damsels in distress for its self-serving violence against persons of color).

He woos and wins the fairest damsel in Vienna (Alma Schindler, the tempestuous daughter of the painter Emil Schindler, and a composer in her own right).

By Ogden Nash The New Yorker, March 16 , 1957P. 32 Once there was a fair young damsel & she early went from View Article By Rivka Galchen By Malcolm Gladwell By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick.

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The painting, a satiric riff on rituals both American and art-historical, at first looks like something painted by a 16th-century Flemish mannerist with a fondness for fair-skinned damsels and exaggeratedly long necks.