parables
Example Sentences
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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
But among contemporary socio-economic parables, Mr. Park’s latest is an amusingly cutting one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 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
To take one of the most famous Kafka parables, “Before the Law”: “This door was meant for you and you alone and now I’m going to shut it.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2023
His punishment is the Word, and his deficiencies are failures of words—as when he grows impatient with translation and strikes out precariously on his own, telling parables in his wildly half-baked Kikongo.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
