fable
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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
The fable construct extends to a frenetic visual scheme of handmade art and animation that interrupts our absorption process as if we were kids needing stimulation between all the talking heads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
I must depend on hearsay, on old photographs, on stories told, and on memories which are hazy and mixed with fable in trying to tell you about the Hamiltons.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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It’s 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
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
Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes, and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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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
The fabled studio engineer George Massenburg details how certain recordings came to be.
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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It confutes, according to Knight's own ideas: it alleges a few scattered facts in favour of astrological productions, which may be picked up in that immensity of fabling which disgraces history.
From Thaumaturgia by An Oxonian
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
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 Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
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
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