Sentences with phrase «like stepsister»
Why does usage seem to imply that Melpomene, the Muse of tragedy, has been fated to act out the sad part of the Cinderella «like stepsister, while her elder sisters get all the glory?
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Certainly we do not want to insist that people mutilate their experiences in order to fit them into our tidy little readymade categories, like the wicked stepsisters maiming their feet to fit into Cinderella's glass slipper.
The 86 - year - old stepsister of Holocaust victim Anne Frank claims that Republican presidential front - runner Trump is «acting like another Hitler,» in an essay marking Holocaust Memorial Day.
Paperbacks and hardcovers must be feeling like the fat, ugly stepsisters right now.
And for too long we have done all of these things in the shadows, like the ugly stepsister to our prized sibling — the saintly doctor.