fable
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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
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
Americans have been told a fable about our economic future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 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
An elder with gray hair and a beard began a fable about a baboon.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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Sem-Sandberg marveled at Carson’s use of the myths, characters, stories and fables from that time, and the way she puts them into a modern context.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 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
“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
“Story Box. A treasure vault for tales and ballads. A repository for lullabies and fables older than the sun, some familiar, some no one has ever heard before.”
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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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
The Welsh-born, 38-year-old engineer has logged hundreds of laps on Germany’s fabled Nürburgring Nordschleife purifying Bentley’s quintessences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 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
In the confined space of the snake’s den there was no room to wield the fabled blade.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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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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But of that cathedral nothing is now left but a heap of fragments, and a stone, on which, fabling tradition says, Henry II. was reconciled to the Church after the murder of Becket.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various
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
Yet, fabling fancy oft shall lead My footsteps to the silver Tweed, Through scenes that I no more must view.
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Sir Walter Scott
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
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