(n.) One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.
(n.) A simpleton; an idiot.
(n.) One apt to change; a waverer.
(a.) Taken or left in place of another; changed.
(a.) Given to change; inconstant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Duchess of Cambridge, due to give birth in the next couple of weeks, will not suffer the indignities of, say, Mary of Modena in 1688, forced to give birth in front of an audience of 200 and still accused of a bit of business with bedpan and changeling.
(2) Between June 1960 and November 1962, Herbert designed Shakespeare's Richard III for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the film of Tom Jones, and at the Royal Court, Wesker's Chicken Soup With Barley, I'm Talking About Jerusalem and Chips With Everything, Christopher Logue's Trials By Logue, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's The Changeling, John Osborne's Luther, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Beckett's Happy Days.
(3) Changeling is set in Los Angeles during the Depression, before the city's make-up was changed by the large black influx.
(4) The trolls raise Eggs, a human changeling, in The Boxtrolls Photograph: PR The only other new film to hit the top 10 this week was the apocalyptic thriller Left Behind from director Vic Armstrong.
(5) There are actually echoes of Dirty Harry in Changeling, Eastwood says, and he's not making any concessions to liberals: "I get a kick out of it because the judge convicts the killer to two years in solitary confinement, and then to be hanged.
(6) It surely accounts for the emotional content of some of his recent films, not least Changeling, which had been in competition for the Palme d'Or and, like the lauded Mystic River, concerns child abduction.
(7) So, rather than start an intergalactic incident by listing the best ever episodes (a task that would cause a brain lockdown similar to what happened when Kirk ordered the Enterprise's computer to calculate pi to the last digit ), here are just some favoured examples of a smarter version of Star Trek, one regularly offered by the many TV shows … The Changeling (Star Trek) Season 2, episode 3.
(8) It's a fast-paced romance featuring changeling trolls called Trylle who are switched at birth with human babies.
Mythology
Definition:
(n.) The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths.
(n.) A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks.
Example Sentences:
(1) This component of a more comprehensive study of Houdini focuses on the unusual reification of his family romance fantasies, their endurance well beyond the usual boundaries in time, their kinship with mythological themes, and their infusion with the ambivalence that is often addressed toward the true parents.
(2) The latter is something of a legend in Bowie mythology and rumoured to be the subject of his song Never Let Me Down .
(3) This mythology, embodied over those decades in the Horatio Alger stories consumed particularly by upwardly mobile young men and in the phrase "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", consistently held out that American promise by equating hard work (along with other good Puritan values such as delayed gratification, temperance, saving and self-reliance) with economic success.
(4) A sample of coitally experienced college females was utilized to explore the adequacy of several related beliefs that constitute the cultural mythology of female sexual initiation in American society and to identify possible correlates of the subjective experience of pain during women's first intercourse.
(5) Mythology, creativity, innovative planning, and systems theory are used to bring together two systems to form a new whole called M-I-D-D-L-E G-R-O-U-N-D.
(6) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
(7) In her composition Land , the rock poet, who lived with Mapplethorpe at the Chelsea Hotel when they were in their 20s, creates a mythology that mirrors his leather fantasies.
(8) Paterson is steeped in the mythologies of the anti-environment movement.
(9) A brief review of the significance of the hand in the mythology, folklore, and religion of Ireland from ancient times is presented.
(10) The sexual abuse of women today is analyzed alongside the mythology of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
(11) In our past, we have both Venus and the crucifix, the Bible and Nordic mythology, which we remember with Christmas trees, or with the many festivals of St Lucy, St Nicolas and Santa Claus.
(12) Amazon may share its name with mythology's greatest female warriors, but the world's largest online retailer employs just 18 women among its 120 most senior managers, and none of them report directly to the boss.
(13) In the beginning, then, this mythology goes, the biologist was in the middle of the ocean, "surrounded by venomous sea serpents", preparing to meet his genome.
(14) She’s performed her poems in bookshops, theatres, prisons, universities, music festivals and schools, where teachers have used her work to introduce their students to Greek mythology.
(15) The paperwork was lost for ever when the town fell and, like so much else in Gbadolite, that moment in the sun is fading into mythology.
(16) It is used to marginalise and persecute independent voices, dumb down debate, and support the mythological notion of a Russia alone and besieged in a hostile world.
(17) For years the so-called White Walkers, a zombie race of wispy-haired, dead-horse-riding weirdos (think: Vince Cable 50 years dead and taller) were presumed mythological or extinct.
(18) Australia has been gripped by Anzac mythology since the late 1980s.
(19) "I do not like the ideological interpretations, this kind of Pope Francis mythology," he said.
(20) Not insignificantly, rejection of science over religious mythology is distinctly partisan: 48% of Republicans, versus 27% of Democrats, "just say no" to Darwin.