(1) (That diagnoses the figure of "loathsome Gluttony" in Spenser's The Faerie Queene , "Whose mind in meat and drinke was drowned so".)
(2) There are so few faeries, we call it a unicorn sighting,” he said, unwittingly giving each other the same word given to startups valued over $1bn.
(3) After Dreamdances, Kemp is returning to Italy to direct Purcell's The Faerie Queen and Puccini's Madame Butterfly.
(4) Images from countless Castro street fairs and Pride marches, of drag queens and kings, cruising and Armistead book launches, radical faeries and queercore artists, White Night riots and Aids vigils, anti-censorship demos and equal-marriage protests.
(5) As a type of fiction for adults, the genre was invented in the 19th century: Dickens's A Christmas Carol has the logic of fantasy, but George MacDonald's Phantastes (1858) is probably the first example of a full-length fantasy novel, revealing to its Victorian protagonist a dangerous parallel world of "Faerie" adventures.
(6) For example, clothes lying on the floor may become dead bodies or a ceiling fan might turn into a "faery" with the blades as wings and the central bulb as an animate, speaking face.
(7) Airbnb gay.” The “faeries” – which Cancél defines as those in the artistic, eccentric gay culture, the sort who founded the Castro as a gayborhood in the 1970s – are now more rare.
(8) It’s such a rare magical thing to run into a fellow faerie in the city these days.” At the Castro district Vanguard office, real estate agent Steve Huang said he finds the gay people moving to town don’t necessarily want to live in any specific neighborhood anymore but prioritize being close to work or Bart.
Fairyland
Definition:
(n.) The imaginary land or abode of fairies.
Example Sentences:
(1) More worryingly, this food plan is only "aspirational", (ie "fairyland"), where heads and councils can choose if and when they do it, until the whole country eventually joins in.
(2) • Doubles from €90, +34 915 393 282, artriphotel.com Hidden gem Antigua Casa Talavera Antigua Casa Talavera on Calle de Isabel La Católica is a cluttered, colourful fairyland of handmade Spanish ceramics.
(3) "If you think the mafia and underworld aren't involved in this country in sport, you're in fairyland," said Howman.
(4) The objective was to “direct all efforts to the construction of dwelling houses to provide flood-hit people with warm cradles and turn the flood-battered region into a fairyland in the era of the Workers’ party within this year.” Impoverished North Korea is vulnerable to natural disasters, especially floods.
(5) Daughter is trying to be helpful, and Facebook is only fairyland, floating in nothing.
(6) Photograph: Alamy No visit to Skye would be complete without a brush with Fairyland, and where better to meet a fairy than at the Fairy Pools?
(7) Stephen Shay, a Harvard Law School professor who has held senior tax roles in the US Treasury and who last year gave expert testimony on Apple’s tax avoidance structures in a Senate investigation, said: “Clearly the database is evidencing a pervasive enabling by Luxembourg of multinationals’ avoidance of taxes [around the world].” He described the Grand Duchy as being “like a magical fairyland.” "Luxembourg is like a magical fairyland" Stephen Shay, Harvard professor There is growing political pressure in the UK and abroad to stop companies exploiting international tax rules to slash their tax bills.