Sentence examples for the tinkerbell from inspiring English sources

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the tinkerbell

noun

Anything whose existence or power depends on the faith of believers.

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The Tinkerbell Cookies campaign could do with a bit of work.

But then again the Tinkerbell most of us have in mind is Disney's Americanised version.

I kipped in a box with all the tramps, and I was the Tinkerbell to their Lost Boys.

One clue, he says, is that if the diary was written in 1905, it would have been before the popularity of "Peter Pan" might have reached Opal, and would perhaps explain why the "fairies" of the diary are simply insects, not humanlike creatures along the Tinkerbell archetype.

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But I do know that on a recent weekend morning, as we drove directly from an amusement park to a strobe-light-fun-house bash, I suddenly had visions of a troubling toy I had not thought of in years: the Tinkerbell-like Flying Thing.

Junior toiletries range from the very innocent (the classic Tinkerbell cologne) to the very chic (petit Guerlain, the latest addition to the French perfume giant's extended family of scents).

In fact Peter, attempting to revive the poisoned Tinkerbell, addresses the audience directly, inviting them to become participants in the live performance.

It comes with the added benefit that pretty well everyone is familiar with JM Barrie's story about Wendy, John and Michael's trip to Neverland in the company of the obstreperous Tinkerbell (whose tutu is attached to the mains supply with electrifying results) and the boy who refuses to grow up, and seems unlikely ever to do so, given the amount of concussion sustained.

And at the end of the attraction, Tinkerbell will fly by and sprinkle departing visitors with pixie dust.

In one story in his 1988 collection "The Toynbee Convector," a ghost grows pale and ill when surrounded by cynics and intellectuals but begins to revive when a group of children gather, avowing their belief in him, much the way Tinkerbell was resuscitated in "Peter Pan" by the audience's applause.

"He wanted me to rewrite the part of Tinkerbell for the movie 'Hook.' " Ms. Fisher's manic depression was diagnosed when she was in her 20's, she said, and she abused painkillers and alcohol for years.

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