fairy tale-like

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1. alternativeAlternative form of fairy-tale-like.

   Larry White photographed this fairy tale-like scene during a trip to Hallstatt, Austria, in October.

   2012 December 22, “Your Scene: Fabled Austria”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2026

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   In other words, Aimee Bender establishes from the outset a tone of casual, offhand intimacy, but the fairy tale-like parable, whose themes are mortality, self-sacrifice and dismemberment, is not so simple.

   2000 July 26, Richard Bernstein, “A Woman Who Loved Only Math”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2022

   In one of a number of fairy tale-like details, the doctor at the nursing home in Nice puts Zoe's mother into a deep restorative sleep.

   2001 February 3, Helen Stevenson, “Small comforts”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 May 2014