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Patrice Chéreau’s 1976 Bayreuth centenary staging, for many still the cycle’s definitive modern vision, found a parable of industrial capitalism and class conflict inside Wagner’s myth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 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
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
“Don’t you remember the parable of the sower?” she teased me.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Kafka’s parables of angst and displacement are naturally diasporic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Having said all that, many of us were instantly floored by Ronald Moore’s reinterpretation of ABC’s 1978 prime-time space saga, and still point to it as one of TV’s strongest political and social parables.
From Salon ● May 5, 2026
Buffett’s lessons and parables remind me of the volatility in technology stocks this year.
From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 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
He was known for anecdotes, and parables from Syria, quotations from the Qur’an, stories from his travels around the world.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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