These plays, influenced by the fairy work of James Planché, are founded upon the idea of self-revelation by characters under the influence of some magic or some supernatural interference.

These plays, influenced by the fairy work of James Planché, are founded upon the idea of self-revelation by characters under the influence of some magic or some supernatural interference.

Although the frontier society was a thing of the past during Alger's career, Geck contends that " the idea of the frontier, even in urban slums, provides a kind of fairy tale orientation in which a Jack mentality can be both celebrated and critiqued ".

The folklores of the British Isles contain a wealth of fairy lore, including the idea from which fairy rings take their name: the phenomena result from the dancing of fairies.

While the series was declared finished with the publication of the seventh volume in 2004, in an interview in March 2009, King stated, describing an idea for a new short story he recently had: " And then I thought, ' Well, why don't I find three more like this and do a book that would be almost like modern fairy tales?

Envisioning Williams as the perfect " Frog Prince ", she formed her own production company, Platypus Productions, and approached Showtime with an idea for a cable television series based on classic fairy tales.

* The idea of using pebbles to find one's way back is a reference to Hansel and Gretel or the French fairy tale Hop o ' My Thumb.

The character of Sugar started as with the basic idea that the main character of the series would be a snow fairy.

As the story begins, we are introduced to the idea that the Wizard ( George Carlin ) controls all of the fairy tales and maintains the balance of good and evil in Fairy Tale Land.

The dweller at p is last to hear about a new cure, the slowest to announce to his neighbors his urgent distresses, the one who goes the farthest to trade, and the one with the greatest difficulty of all in putting over an idea or getting people to join him in a cooperative effort.

Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.

Seemingly, with an unrestricted flow of ideas, all will be well, and we are even assured that `` an idea a day will keep the sheriff away ''.

`` I arrived in the United States with the idea of establishing myself there more or less permanently and finding inspiration for new compositions ''.

So when textbooks, like that of Baker set out drawings of the ' Ptolemaic System ', complete with earth in the center and the seven heavenly bodies epicyclically arranged on their several deferents, we have nothing but a misleading 20th-century idea of what never existed historically.

As he made plans for the new Taliesin, Wright also got on paper his conception of a cathedral of steel and glass to house a congregation of all faiths, and the idea for a planetarium with a sloping ramp.

An idea, let us say, may be roughly defined as a theme or topic with which our reflection may be concerned.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

I mean such concepts as the presence of the supernatural in human affairs, the sacraments of grace and divine retribution, the idea of preordainment ( the oracle over Oedipus, the prophecy of the witches to Macbeth, or God's covenant with His people in Athalie ).

Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

But if anything can bring home to Mr. Khrushchev the idea that he will not really get much enjoyment from watching this Braddock-against-the-Indians contest, it will probably be the fact that SEATO forces are ready to attempt it -- plus the fact that Moscow has something to lose from closing off disarmament and other bigger negotiations with Washington.

One of the problems associated with the expressway stems from the basic idea.

Their names had not come up in any discussions with Laura, and he had no idea what they would be like.

For many nights afterward, the idea of her having been so close to me in that imagined bed would return and fill me with obscure and painful desires, would cause me to lie awake in shame, tossing with irresolution, longing to fall into a deep sleep.

I had no idea of what subjects one discussed when alone with a girl, or how one behaved: Should I hold her hand while walking or only when crossing the street??

The idea of a central tank with lines to each house is not in itself a novelty.

It wants to interest builders and oil companies in the idea of including its facility in their new home projects, by financing and installing the storage, piping and meters, and leasing these for 15 years, with renewal options, to a strong oil company.

The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

But although the idea of communism is very old even in More's day and did not spring full-clad from his imagination in 1515, it is not communism as such that we are concerned with.

It provides identification -- with an idea, a value, a cause that cuts through, or even transcends, the multiple and ambivalent identities of their passage from child to adult, and permits their forceful and overt expression of emotion.

`` I'll get my references in order '', Needham said, and though he spoke with a smile, Casey somehow got the idea that he was not particularly amused.

This is well evidenced by the Quietist doctrines carried over in Zen: the idea of the inward turning of thought, the enjoinder to put aside desires and perturbations so that a return to purity, peace, and stillness -- a union with the Infinite, with the Tao -- could be effected.

There is abundant wildlife even on the small islands on the lake, so it is a good idea to take precautions against bears and biting insects as well.

Clarke later became a major promoter of the idea that frequency-dependent balancing selection might explain abundant molecular polymorphisms ( often in the absence of heterosis ) in opposition to the neutral theory of molecular evolution.

In the final selection, majority of the attending personalities settled in on the name Bugwas which literally means a strong and continuous flow of water coming from an abundant source, and this would point to the idea that this town is naturally blessed with sources of livelihood and life by our Creator and Divine Providence.

To obtain a fluffy texture, whole eggs or sometimes egg whites only are beaten with a small amount of milk or cream, or even water, the idea being to have " bubbles " of water vapor trapped within the rapidly cooked egg.

Others organized Oreo-themed basketball games to reinforce the idea of dunking cookies in milk.

The Heaths came up with the interesting marketing idea of including their toffee on the order form taken around by the Heath dairy trucks, so that one could order Heath bars to be delivered along with one ’ s milk and cottage cheese.

Some have found this idea difficult to reconcile with Cixous ’ definition of écriture féminine ( often termed ‘ white ink ’) because of the many references she makes to the female body (“ There is always in her at least a little of that good mother ’ s milk.

Cotton ’ s work also builds upon and updates the idea of land of milk and honey in European literature and art.

In August 2010, Milton, in a letter to Scottish Public Health Minister Shona Robison, discussed the idea of withdrawing the scheme which gives free milk to the under-fives.

Any idea that the move was policy, itself reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher's withdrawing of milk from 7 to 11 year olds in 1971, was quickly quashed by Number 10 ; with Prime Minister David Cameron stating that he " did not like " the idea of removing milk from children.