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With this intimate, painful epiphany, the show’s larger parable about obligingly submitting to ahistorical ignorance is blunted with a spiritually benevolent ideal.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

Swindon, for so long a political bellwether, is perhaps providing a parable of Englishness.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

Mr. Smith is an insightful filmmaker and “Bring Me the Beauties” is a stylishly constructed parable about naivete and spiritual emptiness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Nimble and inventive, with convincing special effects work, the film is a charming parable that continually finds ways to reset itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2026

Today she chose the parable of the Good Samaritan.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

As Sam Sacks writes, “Ms. Strout has developed her true mastery in an archetypal mode, writing stories that resemble secular parables or everyman morality dramas.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Buffett’s lessons and parables remind me of the volatility in technology stocks this year.

From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025

As it draws to a close, Hwang’s lethal playground games are cautionary parables about tribalism driven by greed.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025

There are lengthy jokes, a smattering of horror, some nonfiction, even romances, poetry and parables.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

“It is similar to telling parables, but in the white man’s language,” I concluded.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah