pygmalion in English

noun
1
a king of Cyprus who fashioned an ivory statue of a beautiful woman and loved it so deeply that in answer to his prayer Aphrodite gave it life. The woman (at some point named Galatea) bore him a daughter, Paphos.

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1. "Pygmalion" was one of Shaw's most famous plays.

2. Annette's performance as Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion" was truly memorable.

3. And so the Pygmalion effect shows how our expectations can really matter.

4. Pygmalion (19, and Saint Joan (19. To Shaw, nothing was sacred.

5. 25 Annette's performance as Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion" was truly memorable.

6. Firstly by the theatre; secondly by what he called his Pygmalion, even his Svengali, complex.

7. A Pygmalion resides in both of them. They are, to an extent, sculptors.

8. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, the film swept the Academy Awards.

9. Pygmalion is at leastthousands of years old — think of Moses passing for thePharaoh's son!

10. His speech professor father was the real-life model for the Henry Higgins of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion."

11. Whether Pygmalion or Narcissus, Obama and Osama share a realist's vision of how power is wielded.

12. A Punjabi Pygmalion, director Lorraine Senna's Americanizing Shelley is a sweet-natured, often charming twist on the assimilation comedy

13. A Punjabi Pygmalion, director Lorraine Senna's Americanizing Shelley is a sweet-natured, often charming twist on the assimilation comedy

14. Law returned to the stage in 19 receiving high acclaim and an "outstanding Newcomer" nomination for his role in Pygmalion.

15. Legend holds that Carthage was founded around 825 BC by Queen Dido who had fled from the city of Tyre to escape her murderous brother Pygmalion

16. And the Pygmalion effect is if I believe you have a certain characteristic this might cause you to behave as if you have that characteristic.

17. Pygmalion is the ancient Greek myth of the King of Cyprus, he felt that the shortcomings of many women, it was hate women, decided to never marry.

18. 30 It isn't exactly "Pygmalion," not least because Mr. Hooper has no intention of satirizing the caste system that is one of this movie's biggest draws.

19. A good story never dies: the original Pygmalion has since been updated in the hit movie Pretty Woman (19 starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts.

20. Shaw was also the only person ever to have won both a Nobel Prize (Literature in 19 and an Academy Award (Best Screenplay for Pygmalion in 19.

21. If this story sounds familiar, it should: Pygmalion was later filmed winning an Oscar for Shaw and later again transformed into the highly popular Broadway musical My Fair Lady (19.

22. To discuss how the medical personnel make use of pygmalion effect in psychology to dig power in patients' expectancy, so as to improve the physical and mental health of patients.

23. Alarums) (archaic) A danger signal or warning.1913, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion: "The rest is the irreducible minimum of poverty's needs: A wretched bed heaped with all sorts of coverings that have any warmth in them, a

24. But he is also a sculptor, he Shenmiao the skills of an ivory carving of the female image, so this is a beautiful statue, Pygmalion appreciate their own achievements, the last Jingzhi in love with it.