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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

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

As Mr. Meslow observes, on some level “Twin Peaks” was always a parable about nostalgia’s dangers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The same could just as unnervingly be said about “The Crucible,” Miller’s parable about the McCarthy witch hunts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

“Indeed, on several occasions, a seminary student going to give his talk on the parable of the Good Samaritan literally stepped over the victim as he hurried on his way.”

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 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

“A New Hope,” “ The Empire Strikes Back” and “Jedi” collectively became a kind of morality North Star for Gen X, augmented by Joseph Campbell’s authentication of the films as spiritual parables.

From Salon ● May 25, 2024

He paced, paused, spoke, and paced behind his palm-leaf altar, giving every impression he was inventing his Biblical parables on the spot.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver