Pygmalion
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- proper noun
- /ˈpɪɡmeɪliən/
- Literature
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Pigmalión
- Second, Pygmalion and Galatea's relationship is consistently conceived in terms of a father-daughter relationship.
- Pygmalion and Galatea
- Pygmalion story
- Pygmalion myth
It's a retelling of is it Pygmalion?
- It's a retelling of is it Pygmalion?
Examples
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Now, as you know, "Pygmalion" is a play which takes place in old-timey London.
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Though in My Fair Lady, as we all know, it's a play on Pygmalion, OK.
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You read Pygmalion and saw the movie.
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And I was in this play in my high school called Pygmalion, and it's the play they based My Fair Lady on.
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Which is closely based on Pygmalion.
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My idea is that we will set our production of "Pygmalion" in modern-day New York.
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I believe you are referring to Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw.
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Rosenthal and Jacobson's Pygmalion effect: Teachers' messages and expectations determine the success students have in learning.
Academic text (2010) -
Shaw's socially self-aware story reverses the Pygmalion tradition, which often centers on psychological and mystical themes.
Academic text (1996) -
In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was a king who fell in love with a statue he carved and had it brought to life.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pygmalion comes from a Greek story about a sculptor-king who fell in love with a statue he carved and had it 'brought to life' by the goddess Aphrodite. So, think of a creator who shapes and loves their work into something new—Pygmalion now names stories or ideas where someone's care or belief helps change or improve another person.