51Թ

Advertisement

Advertisement

“The Emperor's New Clothes”

  1. A story by Hans Christian Andersen . An emperor hires two tailors who promise to make him a set of remarkable new clothes that will be invisible to anyone who is either incompetent or stupid. When the emperor goes to see his new clothes, he sees nothing at all — for the tailors are swindlers and there aren't any clothes. Afraid of being judged incompetent or stupid, the emperor pretends to be delighted with the new clothes and “wears” them in a grand parade through the town. Everyone else also pretends to see them, until a child yells out, “He hasn't got any clothes on!”


Discover More

Notes

People who point out the emptiness of the pretensions of powerful people and institutions are often compared to the child who says that the emperor has no clothes.
Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

He is among those who contends Biden is not physically capable of a robust campaign and CNN reports that, “With a good poll for Biden these days being one in which he is over 40 percent, Phillips sees himself as like the boy in “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” who makes the rest angry by being the only one brave enough to point out problems anyone can see.”

From

“Something amazing about Low, they make you hear things in a different way,” Tucker said, later paying tribute to Sinead O’Connor, closing with a jubilantly defiant “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”

From

While it was the Prince-penned single “Nothing Compares 2 U” that made her a global superstar, she took on racism and police brutality in “Black Boys on Mopeds” and the warped values of the music industry in “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”

From

Songs like "Troy," "The Emperor's New Clothes" and, of course, "Nothing Compares 2 U" revealed a singer with the rare power of heartbreak, which was especially rare in the cooler-than-thou college rock era when she was a platinum-selling artist.

From

O'Connor is most famous for being silenced, so I want to give her the last words, from a song she wrote and released two years before the "SNL" performance: "The Emperor's New Clothes."

From

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


Emperor Jones, Theend justifies the means, the