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pygmalion

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Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title , and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller . The film was a financial and critical success, and won an Oscar for Best Screenplay and ...

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a. bloody (only in 'not pygmalion likely'), from the sensational, and then scandalous, line "not bloody likely" in George Bernard Shaw's play ''Pygmalion''. n. One who acts as the legendary Greek sculptor Pygmalion (who was granted the wish of having life ...

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Coyote, that once we use Fiddleback to vanquish Pygmalion, we will have Fiddleback to contend with again.

El-Leichter had once claimed as his own, that the lifetime 1 had spent in GBI, being forged into a weapon for Fiddleback to use against Pygmalion, was a past lifetime.

Fiddleback correctly guessed that he could train me in things the way he had trained Pygmalion, butsincemy identity came as a reflection of Fiddleback, 1 would never rebel.

If not for the intervention of Pygmalion, Fiddleback might have destroyed me.

From the floorplan, we determined two likely spots for Pygmalion to maintain an office.

For that reason we have isolated Mickey from the wolfmen Pygmalion first had him attack.

George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion asserts the idea that a flower girl can become a lady, in soul as well as appearance, if only she is trained and educated properly.

Pygmalion gestured one last time, liquefying the fourth scout, then raised his finger up and blew on it before tucking it away in an imaginary holster.

I decided that Gwen’s attempt to play Pygmalion to this unlikely Galatea was succeeding but that Bill would have to learn Loonie manners, or he might lose some teeth.

As Pygmalion had rebelled against his master, so, someday, Ryuhito would become Pygmalion's rival, and in his choice of appellation for the diminutive Dark Lord, he let the seeds of his rebellion germinate.

As the Empress of Diamonds brought me through, I sensed the life ebbing from the countless warriors Pygmalion had created and from the world that had hatched them.