She sometimes fantasized about getting him to make love to her, but Galatea never really liked her godlike creator, Pygmalion. |
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In the latter example the Pygmalion myth is combined with that of the archetypal mother. |
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The Pygmalion effect works by luring us into the conviction that we are capable of achieving the goals that we set. |
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Her hands waft over the swimming skyscape like those of Galatea awakened by Venus in the Pygmalion sequence. |
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In a reverse of the Pygmalion template, Nicole tries to reshape her boho neighbour into the perfect date. |
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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. |
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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. |
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I tell you, remember Pygmalion, whose gluttonous thirst of gold made him a traitor, robber, and even what is worse, a parricide. |
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What Day needed was someone young and unformed, a Galatea to his Pygmalion. |
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Linda's many stage roles include Funny Peculiar, Bedside Manner, Not Now Darling, Pygmalion and Rock with Laughter. |
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In 1943 Burton played Professor Henry Higgins in a school production of another Shaw play directed by Philip, Pygmalion. |
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In 1871, with Pygmalion and Galatea, one of seven plays that he produced that year, Gilbert scored his greatest hit to date. |
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In 1938 he provided the screenplay for a filmed version of Pygmalion for which he received an Academy Award. |
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In 1734, Covent Garden presented its first ballet, Pygmalion. |
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Cyprus occupies an important role in Greek mythology being the birthplace of Aphrodite and Adonis, and home to King Cinyras, Teucer and Pygmalion. |
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A type of Pygmalion effect, or self-fulfilling prophecy, then will follow. |
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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. |
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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. |
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