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Yet the ancient Greek poet Archilochus, who gave us the parable of the fox and the hedgehog, suggests that the hedgehog’s one big trick may defeat all the tricks the fox can try.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

With this intimate, painful epiphany, the show’s larger parable about obligingly submitting to ahistorical ignorance is blunted with a spiritually benevolent ideal.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 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

“No,” said the Wart He sat down resignedly upon the most comfortable part of the floor, perceiving that he was in for something like the parable of the looking-glass.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Kafka’s parables of angst and displacement are naturally diasporic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Buffett’s lessons and parables remind me of the volatility in technology stocks this year.

From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 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

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

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