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How to use pygmalion in a sentence

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She sometimes fantasized about getting him to make love to her, but Galatea never really liked her godlike creator, Pygmalion.
In the latter example the Pygmalion myth is combined with that of the archetypal mother.
The Pygmalion effect works by luring us into the conviction that we are capable of achieving the goals that we set.
Her hands waft over the swimming skyscape like those of Galatea awakened by Venus in the Pygmalion sequence.
In a reverse of the Pygmalion template, Nicole tries to reshape her boho neighbour into the perfect date.
Pygmalion was the first of three Shaw adaptations that he was to direct, and the first film on which the great dramatist himself worked as scriptwriter.
She fell in love with the theatre when she was still a student at the Rousse Language School where her debut was in a performance of Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw.
I tell you, remember Pygmalion, whose gluttonous thirst of gold made him a traitor, robber, and even what is worse, a parricide.
What Day needed was someone young and unformed, a Galatea to his Pygmalion.
Linda's many stage roles include Funny Peculiar, Bedside Manner, Not Now Darling, Pygmalion and Rock with Laughter.
In 1943 Burton played Professor Henry Higgins in a school production of another Shaw play directed by Philip, Pygmalion.
In 1871, with Pygmalion and Galatea, one of seven plays that he produced that year, Gilbert scored his greatest hit to date.
In 1938 he provided the screenplay for a filmed version of Pygmalion for which he received an Academy Award.
In 1734, Covent Garden presented its first ballet, Pygmalion.
Cyprus occupies an important role in Greek mythology being the birthplace of Aphrodite and Adonis, and home to King Cinyras, Teucer and Pygmalion.
A type of Pygmalion effect, or self-fulfilling prophecy, then will follow.
It was followed by one of Shaw's most successful plays, Pygmalion, written in 1912 and staged in Vienna the following year, and in Berlin shortly afterwards.
Eliza Doolittle, the central character in George Bernard Shaw's play, Pygmalion, and the musical adaptation by Alan Jay Lerner, My Fair Lady, is a Covent Garden flower seller.
Examples from Classical Literature
Pygmalion loued once a Marble piller, and I haue but one desire, the colour whereof is more pale than death.
I am not harder than the marble of which Pygmalion made the statue he loved.
In celebration of this Garage returns to Pygmalion tonight to celebrate six years of RTE Pulse.
Ross Anderson GEORGE Bernard Shaw's classic play Pygmalion never fails to impress when it is performed in theatres.
I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home.
Famous for worship of Aphrodite and scene of story of Pygmalion.
Pygmalion had breathed on the marble and held a goddess in his arms.
Even Pygmalion, when his sculptured woman assumed life, felt not greater ecstasy than mine will be.
Suppose she did Pygmalion and Galatea what would she say first?
What was the name of the phonetics expert in Shaw's play Pygmalion?
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