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Pygmalion
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Pygmalion as in:  the play

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  • What was the name of Pygmalion's sister?†  (source)
  • Pygmalion came next.†  (source)
  • It was unseemly—a place of brown stains and canned smells—but just after dawn, Marybeth set about pygmalioning it, vacuuming and sani-wiping, arranging bulletin boards and phone banks, hanging a large head shot of Amy on one wall.†  (source)
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  • Your Pygmalion, old chap] ...Now, hear me, and hear me well.†  (source)
  • Now as he sat among the guitarists and watched this awkward girl singing ballads, imitating every inflection of the more experienced singers who had preceded her, the determination entered his mind to play Pygmalion.†  (source)
  • Pygmalion Higgins is not a portrait of Sweet, to whom the adventure of Eliza Doolittle would have been impossible; still, as will be seen, there are touches of Sweet in the play.†  (source)
  • The story of Pygmalion and his statue is as natural as it is poetical.†  (source)
  • This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning.†  (source)
  • Even Pygmalion, when his sculptured woman assumed life, felt not greater ecstasy than mine will be.†  (source)
  • —While daylight lasts, So long what thou didst hear of her, sole spouse Of the Great Spirit, and on which thou turn'dst To me for comment, is the general theme Of all our prayers: but when it darkens, then A different strain we utter, then record Pygmalion, whom his gluttonous thirst of gold Made traitor, robber, parricide: the woes Of Midas, which his greedy wish ensued, Mark'd for derision to all future times: And the fond Achan, how he stole the prey, That yet he seems by Joshua's ire pursued.†  (source)
  • Then we rehearse Pygmalion,[1] whom his gluttonous longing for gold made a traitor and thief and parricide; and the wretchedness of the avaricious Midas which followed on his greedy demand, at which men must always laugh.†  (source)
  • It's as if I've stepped into Shaw's Pygmalion.†  (source)
  • Pygmalion.†  (source)
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