fable

Like Dickens’s classic fable, this, too, is a moving and cathartic story of forgiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

But it was 1986’s “A Smoky Mountain Christmas,” Parton’s down-home festive fable, that cemented her as a seasonal favorite.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

The final piece on the album, “Samsara,” is inspired by an ancient Mesopotamian fable about the inevitability of death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

At some point in childhood, through one classic fable or another, most of us absorb the lesson that looks can be deceiving.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026

"Can you prove any word of this fable?"

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Skarsgård adds that the comedy of “Wicker” lets the cast and crew subvert traditional fables and sagas, or even George Bernard Shaw’s classic “Pygmalion” story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Sem-Sandberg marveled at Carson’s use of the myths, characters, stories and fables from that time, and the way she puts them into a modern context.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Interlaced with the prosaic reflections are a series of fables involving inhabitants from the present and past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

"The great thing about these movies is that they are like fables," Byron Howard, one of the two directors, told AFP in Los Angeles.

From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025

I loved to read about ancient Rome, and I was quicker than my brother to find the lessons in the fables of Aesop.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Coppelia, a Cuban restaurant that’s named after a fabled ice-cream venue in Havana, takes the festive spirit of the island to heart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

“Dan ran things the way they used to, in the storied, fabled days of publishing before everything went corporate.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The result is Australia's fabled foursome now have 607 wickets in Tests in which they have played as a quartet.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

The meeting at Burnham's Downing Street office and residence came after the leaders celebrated bilateral ties with King Charles III at a preview of the fabled Bayeux Tapestry in London on Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

His previous work included helping excavate a land site at Gordion, Turkey, which, in the eighth century BCE, had been the capital of King Midas’s fabled golden empire.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

If I marry Again sounds like one of those pulpy domestic morals with which the jaded directors are so fond of fabling.

From Time Magazine Archive

From a very child I loved all fancies marvellous and wild; I turned from truth, to listen to the lore Of many an old and fabling troubadour.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by George Gilfillan

It confutes, according to the knight's own ideas: it alleges a few scattered facts in favour of astrological predictions, which may be picked up in that immensity of fabling which disgraces history.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

But of that cathedral nothing is now left but a heap of fragments, and a stone, on which, fabling tradition says, Henry II. was reconciled to the Church after the murder of Becket.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various

If we could only believe forever, what a good world it could be—"a world of fine fabling," indeed!

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson