fable

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

France President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to "a great artist who transformed an Iranian childhood into a universal fable".

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Since eating the rich is in fashion, heist stories are the heroic fables of our time.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

This is a film about good versus evil, gods versus monsters — the fables we’ve been telling since the beginning of time, and why they will be with us until the end.

From Salon ● May 19, 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

The name Sohrab comes from the story of Rostam and Sohrab in the Shahnahmeh, which is basically the Silmarillion of Persian fables and legends.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

Weinstock’s experience is a sign of thriving times for London’s fabled theater district.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

They’re the fabled duo who first wrapped the arches of this same bridge in straw-colored fabric in 1985.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 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

Soaring ticket prices and extra security for US President Donald Trump do not alter the electric energy of fabled Madison Square Garden as it hosts games three and four of the NBA Finals.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

Furthermore, it was happening in the present, not in bygone days of fabled deeds.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

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

No trust the fabling readers of the stars Have e'er deserved.

From The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller

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

The Italian Favellio, parlerie, babil, caquet—Alberti’s “Grand Dictionnaire”—does not wholly convey the idea of our modern Humbug, which combines fabling and caquet.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli