Sentence examples for wicked snow from inspiring English sources
Stuart Patterson's play is bursting with adventure and frosted with sadness as the wicked Snow Queen freezes hearts and tries to turn the whole world into winter.
In the original fairy tale Gerda seeks to rescue her best friend, Kai, the boy next door, who has been kidnapped by the wicked Snow Queen after a splinter from an evil mirror gets into his eye.
Of the two bullets that Mr. Martinez fired, one smashed into the plate-glass window of a souvenir shop in the promenade; the glass shattered, leaving a bullet hole to the right of a "Wicked" snow globe souvenir.
Women in fairytales – the wicked queen in Snow White, the wicked stepmother in Cinderella, the wicked fairy godmother in Sleeping Beauty – are thoroughly wicked (obviously) and meet bad ends because they prize beauty above all else.
Anne Sexton may well have had Disney's transformation scene in mind when her wicked queen condemns Snow White to be "hacked" to death after she herself discovers "brown spots on her hand" and "four whiskers over her lip".
Others are personal: psychological struggles in her own life recently, including bitter love for her mother, who, like the wicked queen in Snow White, was envious of her blond, clever daughter.
Priscilla Presley even gave us her wicked stepmother in Snow White, a performance with enough oomph to suggest she might be treating the whole thing as an audition to play Lady Macbeth for the RSC.
The inter-faith match has been fixed by Margot's mother Catherine de'Medici (played brilliantly by Virna Lisi as the wicked queen from Snow White), who has thoughtfully murdered Henri's mother as a wedding gift.
While most fairy tales are dark -- who doesn't remember shivering at the wicked stepmother in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"? -- more often than not they have a conciliatory resolution, at least onstage.
Medina was a deliciously wicked Queen in Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961), with skating star Carol Heiss as her daughter, but roles were scarce in the 1960s, and her last notable role was that of a dominatrix in Robert Aldrich's overwrought transcription of the stage hit The Killing of Sister George (1968).
Certainly she is one of a handful of actresses who exude a real power, from her roles as a wicked queen in Snow White and The Huntsman or a female-rights pioneer in North Country to her unflinching, Oscar-winning performance as a serial killer in Monster.
