“Beauty and the Beast”

Cultural  

1. A French fairy tale about a beautiful and gentle young woman who is taken to live with a man-beast in return for a good deed the Beast did for her father. Beauty is kind to the well-mannered Beast but pines for her family until the Beast allows her to visit them. Once home, Beauty delays her return until she hears that the Beast is dying without her. She returns to the Beast and brings him back to health. When she agrees to marry him, the evil spell upon him is broken, and he becomes a handsome prince. Beauty and her prince live happily ever after.

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Example Sentences

That movie came during a fallow period after the so-called Disney renaissance that created acclaimed animated films such as “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Tarzan.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2025

A 30th anniversary production of “Beauty and the Beast” will kick off a North American tour next year, and a new staging of “Hercules” will debut in London in 2025.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024

Luke Evans, who has starred in a wide variety of movies and TV series from “The Hobbit” to “Beauty and the Beast” to “Nine Perfect Strangers,” felt his dream of playing Bond has slipped away.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2024

Listeners could probably answer him: after all, he’s best known for the scores for beloved Disney animated films like “Aladdin,” “Beauty and the Beast” and of course “The Little Mermaid.”

From New York Times • May 29, 2023

As an example of the latter may be taken a “husk-myth,” which is a valuable contribution to the literature of the “Beauty and the Beast” cycle.

From Indian Fairy Tales by Anonymous