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

By then, the twine was a family fable.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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 Laguna Beach space, a 1,000-square-foot love letter to fairy tales, is a fantastical, mystical wonderland, where fables of lost love, ghostly pets and irresistible avarice are told via miniature installations and ornate, storybook art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2025

Some of the fables, such as “The Locket,” are told in multiple parts, its story of a humble sea trader and the allure and dangers of wealth spread among multiple displays and a lighthouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2025

Whereas my father once told stories of historic battles and heroic Xhosa warriors, my mother would enchant us with Xhosa legends and fables that had come down from numberless generations.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

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

There the School’s history had unrolled, the fabled riot scenes and Presidential visits and Civil War musterings, if not in these buildings then in their predecessors on the same site.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

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

With thy fabling and thy reasoning, i-wis,      I am beguiled; but I have known thee ere this:      Art not Celestine, that dwelleth by the river side?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt

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

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

"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