How to Use Pygmalion in a Sentence
Pygmalion
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Like Pygmalion, Pelletier carved her second great love into being.
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Maria Aspan,
Fortune,
2023-04-05
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By the way, both movies are actually remakes, because the story is based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.
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Lia Beck,
refinery29.com,
2021-08-28
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A lot of things would have turned out different if Capote had spent 1967 writing Answered Prayers instead of playing Pygmalion.
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Mark Peikert,
Town & Country,
2022-01-28
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Meanwhile, over the past five decades, scores of scientists inspired by Rosenthal have tracked Pygmalion effects outside of educational settings.
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Katherine Ellison,
Discover Magazine,
2015-10-28
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Note the Pygmalion effect, by which others’ expectations of a person affect that person’s performance, in a self-fulfilling prophecy for success—or failure.
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Katherine Manuel,
Forbes,
2023-03-16
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