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The movie is a fantasy parable set in a fairy-tale village and divided into illustrated chapter titles to suggest children’s literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Behold the parable of why housing costs so much in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
The film is, he said, is "another parable of parental crisis dressed up as a brightly coloured family adventure" - and a "cautionary tale about online childhoods".
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
The most direct reading of this makes “The Sheep Detectives” a parable about denial and eventual acceptance following a great personal loss.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
Finally, my history deserves public notice as no more than this: a parable for the life of its reader.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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 1, 2026
His genial demeanour and penchant for folksy parables belie a past as a wily guerrilla fighter and ruthless political survivor.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
As it draws to a close, Hwang’s lethal playground games are cautionary parables about tribalism driven by greed.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025
I was so green in the world that I hadn’t accepted there could be parables without a moral, questions without an answer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
The boy was brought before the chief and asked if he knew us and if he had ever heard us speak parables in the white man’s language.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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