parables

Example Sentences

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Goliath parables don’t need to be populist, but they do need to precisely convey the loftiness of their villains.

From Los Angeles Times

These videos sit neatly in a long lineage of short-form moral education, from religious parables to fairy tales to the sentimental moralizing of some serialized Victorian literature.

From New York Times

They underscore the ways that both are patriarchal domination parables.

From Salon

Biblical parables and the hymns he had grown up with laced his speeches.

From New York Times

American presidents are all parables — they either come that way, which explains our fascination with them, or we turn them into archetypes, avatars and allegories.

From New York Times