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“Go and Do Likewise” is centered around the parable of the Good Samaritan from the Bible.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 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
“Wed, I want to ted you another parable now.”
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
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 first and second seasons are light parables that take on toxic masculinity, the weight of fatherhood and healing traumatic personal legacies.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2024
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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