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

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

Those movies proved there is a market for large-scale live-action fables employing practical and realistic special effects, along with massive sets built on location.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 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

We’ve long been sold fables about robots yearning to be more human — to love us, guard us and sympathize with us before replacing us.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2025

It wasn’t the first time that false prophets announced to us: peace-in-the-world, the-Red-Cross-negotiating-our-liberation, or other fables .

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel

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

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

Accompanied by HMS Terror, it was searching for the fabled Northwest Passage.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

He would see the lush fields, the tall forests, and, most important, the fabled libraries, holding books no one in Tenebrion had ever read or even heard the names of.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

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

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

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

A wise old man—I believe he was a bishop—once said he knew "that outside the real world is a world of fine fabling."

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