fable
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Each fable was printed as a separate folio; the folios are stored in a box designed by the multimedia artist Kiki Smith.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
France President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to "a great artist who transformed an Iranian childhood into a universal fable".
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
It doesn’t lose its way, yet doesn’t feel entirely confined to one place — a critical component that allows “Is God Is” to play like a modern biblical fable.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
Her misunderstanding would have been comic had we read of it in a romantic fable.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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The historian’s duty, Mr. Sebag Montefiore writes, is to the facts, “but the fables and myths are important parts of the history too.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
That Niall finds Ruben so alluring is natural to Gadd, who believes the notion of a valiant male figure has been bred into everyone via fables and fairy tales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
“The Wayfinder” combines religious myths, ecological fables and nationalist origin stories into a thrilling hero’s quest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 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
The stories Eddie had jotted down in his goofy, blocky handwriting, from his own silly creations to the fables Nana used to tell us when we were younger, when she’d come up to visit.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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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
The fabled entertainer died after a series of health issues that led her to postpone several performing commitments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Shaun Edwards' departure from France's national team is being negotiated, with the fabled defence coach set to be without a role a year out from the Rugby World Cup.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
And the fabled eye of CBS may grow a cataract at the prospect of being jeered from the stage of the nearly 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall, to what would be resounding applause.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Coke’s scientists went back and tinkered with the fabled secret formula to make it a little lighter and sweeter—more like Pepsi.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
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Tell, I pray thee, whence the gloomy spots Upon this body, which below on earth Give rise to talk of Cain in fabling quaint?”
From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
A wise old man—I believe he was a bishop—once said he knew "that outside the real world is a world of fine fabling."
From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson
Ah! why do fabling poets tell That thy fleet wings outstrip the wind?
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
"I think him worthy of the greatest praise for the many new and true observations which he has made, to the disgrace of so many vain and fabling authors."
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Henry Smith Williams
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