parable
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Is it a parable about the dangers posed by artificial intelligence and the fawning tendencies of large language models?
From Salon
The technique of “Train Dreams”—the stylized juxtaposition of images and narration, the kaleidoscopic jumble of anxious memories and pastoral portraits—is not the stuff of an Old West parable.
After 30-plus years, Jim Henson’s creation returns to series TV — as a lavishly produced climate change parable that pays respect to the original.
From Los Angeles Times
In these and other parables, Jesus points us to the deficiency of our anthropocentric conception of fairness, directing our attention to something deeper about God’s love.
Much of “Flour” is concerned with the woman’s conversation with her driver about a parable from the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas that he is translating from Coptic—a tale, he says, about emptiness and unknowing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
