Shortly after she moved in, the couple began performing as Trish and Christoph, singing irreverent but tender anti-folk songs inspired by the island and especially their neighborhood, with its ugly duckling charm.
Truffaut was especially touched by the ugly-ducking charms and gaucheries of children because, as he remarked, everything they do they're doing for the first time (the emblematic image of which might be the amazement of the "wild child" of L'Enfant Sauvage at his first sneeze).
It's almost so ugly it has a charm of its own.
There is no word on whether the roles of the ugly sisters and Prince Charming have yet been cast.
Online retailers have to address all these issues if they are to make customers feel like Cinderella rather than the Ugly Sisters when Prince Charming (well, the postman) comes knocking - whether they are in the shoe business or not.
For most of our history, black folk were viewed as ugly creatures who lacked European charm and beauty.
Prince Charming might be ugly in the conventional sense of what is considered handsome at any given time.
(Hey - they were ugly, but had a certain popular charm about them).
Instead, Ivanka's made the choice to use her gifts to prop up her father's ugly and xenophobic campaign, employing her charm as a kind of weaponized graciousness.
"Cinderella" meets "The Ugly Duckling" in "Penelope," a muddled, charm-free fairy tale whose title character, played by Christina Ricci, is a rich girl born with the snout of a pig.
