fairy tale

Today, those stories are effectively fairy tales — stories we tell ourselves to avoid confronting reality.

For now, it seems like a fairy tale — the idea that Americans could choose to work or not work based on their desire, rather than the threat of starvation.

We love the idea of debuting this musical — filled with beloved fairy tale characters — at a theater dedicated to the exploration of classic stories reframed for modern audiences.

Cialdini, like a character in some ancient fairy tale, has found himself advising both sides of the bargaining table.

It is often thought that fairy tales live on because they express unchanging truths about the human condition.

As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

But when the darkness closes in, we actually run to fairy tales and fables.

Actually, rather like Gruber, we feel rather icky about fairy tales.

Not that the demonstration had anything to do with this couple, whom Sarah seems to see as a fairy tale come to life.

Were the fairy-tale true it really would shame the affluent west.

But he was ignorant of that part of the horrid tale; and the Duke, in a milder voice, bade him rise.

Never had Punch secured the telling of that tale with so little opposition.

The tailor of the fairy tale with his "seven at a blow" is not in it with the gunnery Lieutenant of a battleship.

Until very recently little has been known of the strange land in which the subject of this tale lives.

The Elizabethan pipes were so small that now when they are dug up in Ireland the poor call them 'fairy pipes' from their tininess.