Rachel and Phil's romance had all the hallmarks of a fairy tale.
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Not so for the celebrity set, who can easily afford all the accoutrements of a fairy tale wedding, from ritzy locales to post-nuptial firework displays.
Thus, the common idea that the Web is crammed full of videos that become serendipitously popular out of the blue turns out to be something of a fairy tale.
On the child's whim, Eve follows different licence plates, until out of the blue she is drawn by a whim of her own, a memory from childhood of a fairy-tale picture done in coloured broken glass stuck in a whitewashed wall.
On the way out to the archipelago from Stockholm, the road winds through the radiant green landscape of a fairy-tale: forests, timber houses, rye fields, fat cows.
Neeta is more general than planner, marshaling the vast array of talent needed to create a fairy tale land that suits the tastes of her clients.
We as a nation need to quickly disabuse ourselves of the fairy tale notion that such a mind is responsive to care and feeding, to persuasion, to expressions of guilt, to compromise of any kind.
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Most of what you hear is a fairy tale designed to serve present-day political purposes.
In the red-ink-drenched biotechnology sector the success of Amgen takes on a fairy-tale quality.
What could be simpler, or more delightful, or more deserving of a museum, than a fairy tale?
But the fiery performances and the flashy treatment of the material as a lurid fairy tale are rather fun.
The apparent fascination could stretch back into ancient folklore, says Prof Jack Zipes, a leading scholar of fairy-tale studies.
The Warner Bros. film is the first in a wave of upcoming fairy-tale themed movies slated to hit theaters in the next few years.
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Watching Pakistan television news is like viewing one of those wonderfully terrible Indian movies, which paint a fairy-tale world existing only in the minds of believers.
The whole sorry spectacle turns out to be a kind of self-help fairy tale, an illustrated lecture on finding the inner child.
' I don't believe that, the moment an agreement is signed, we'll live in a fairy tale world of prosperity and happiness.
Among the other longlisted movies are Tangled - a Disney adaptation of the Rapunzel fairy tale - and the supervillain-based comedy Despicable Me.
So I don't think it was unusual for Bartok to pick a revisionist rendition of a dark and terror-filled fairy tale as the libretto for his first and only opera, Duke Bluebeard's Castle.
Consider that this other story recently went viral throughout the Chinese blogosphere: an (as far as I can tell, apocryphal) account of the teaching of the Cinderella fairy tale in a Chinese first-grade classroom.
Alisa Bowman, author of Project Happily Ever After: Saving Your Marriage When the Fairy Tale Falters and the founder of a blog dedicated to improving marriages, has said that once she and her husband embarked on a project to save their marriage, which was chronicled in her book, they actually argued more.
"There's a lack of maturity, and they're fantasizing that marriage is a fairy tale, " says Lois Liberman, a New York celebrity divorce lawyer.
In 2008 President Obama sold voters a fairy tale about millions of "green jobs" that he could conjure up merely by "investing" taxpayer money.
It cannot be good for a country to subscribe to a fairy-tale version of its own history in which the king never does wrong, stays above politics and only ever intervenes on the side of democracy.
"Downton Abbey" portrays a fairy-tale way of life in which butlers and footmen appear far better dressed than today's billionaires many of whom, after making their fortune, seem to want to be sartorially indistinguishable from the most sloppily dressed adolescent rebel.
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Why, in the end, is this modern take on a fairy tale so utterly devoid of any modern sensibilities?
Contrary to the Americans who, in spite of blunt evidence, still worship the act of marriage, with its fairy-tale rituals of proposing and funny kneeling, the French have a much more pessimistic, more realistic even, vision of the knot.
But there are fears that this time, at the Beijing edition of the Olympic story, there might not be a fairy tale ending for the team in gold and green.
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