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US
/ˌpɪɡˈmeɪɫjən/
]
NOUN
- (Greek mythology) a king who created a statue of a woman and fell in love with it; Aphrodite brought the sculpture to life as Galatea
How To Use Pygmalion In A Sentence
- She sometimes fantasized about getting him to make love to her, but Galatea never really liked her godlike creator, Pygmalion.
- Evoking the myth of Pygmalion, a woman portrayed as a sightless sculptor in Blind Vision brings to life a Napoleonic man of clay who responds to the touch of her modeling by opening one seeing eye.
- In the latter example the Pygmalion myth is combined with that of the archetypal mother.
- These words had already been heard in many an opera (notably in a beautiful chorus from Rameau's Pygmalion).
- Annette's performance as Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion" was truly memorable.
- 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.
- 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.
- It was Jean-Jacques Rousseau who invented the melodrama in his dramatic monologue Pygmalion, first performed in Paris in the early 1760s.
- `I have lifted you from the canvas and like Pygmalion, filled you with life and beauty. WEB OF DREAMS
- In a reverse of the Pygmalion template, Nicole tries to reshape her boho neighbour into the perfect date.
