fable

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

As the cautionary 1945 fable “Animal Farm” memorably shows, George Orwell had some thoughts about the Soviet Union and the terrible folly in politicized moralism.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

Then there are others where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing, or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high-colored magical confusion takes permanent hold.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

Like all great fables, Brown’s story is deceptively simple.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025

Jefferson denounced Washington's speech as “shreds of stuff from Aesop’s fables and Tom Thumb. ”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

So why name its title track after Elvis Presley’s fabled Memphis home?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

A frightening encounter with a fabled Sea Hag in the third episode turns dyed-in-the-wool skeptic Tom into a believer, allowing Rhys to exercise his pipes and impressive pitch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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

The 50-year-olds are two of snooker's fabled 'Class of '92', along with 51-year-old Mark Williams, with the trio having 14 world titles between them.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

In a storied career oftwenty-three races, through the Triple Crown and virtually every fabled race in the East, no one had ever seen all War Admiral could give.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

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

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

Also I wondered what J. Rodney Potts might have to apprehend from the leaven of fact in the fabling of Billy Durgin.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson

And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson