Even more troubling, Stuttgart 21 joins a growing list of misguided projects that are reducing Germany's 20th-century architectural history to a fairy tale version of the truth.
Instead of joining such a conversation, one of our two major parties offers up a fairy tale version of the economy.
And yet the strongest parallel seems to be the Walt Disney fairy tale version of "Snow White," where innocent slumber is interrupted by a lover's touch.
With a little more imagination and perspiration, it's easy to imagine a fairy tale version of a library popping up on every corner in the country could happen.
The lodge is a Shangri-La fairy tale version of the ultimate, super-exclusive ski village -- best snow, never a lift line, exquisite food, and the most interesting people from the world over.
Ms. Groff uses the fairy-tale version of horror to give "Arcadia" an added pathos.
In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder.
But Jeff Chester, the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, said that the industry had provided the F.D.A with a "fairy-tale version of digital health marketing".
"In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder," Mr. Sorkin writes.
This alter ego became a fairy-tale version of her show's heroine, the pioneering conservationist Rachel Carson who died in 1964.
