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Kyle Smith gives us his take on the parable starring Alexander Skarsgård and Olivia Colman set in a fairy-tale village.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 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
The situation resembles the parable of the scorpion and the turtle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
You have heard it, and it—this true story of rich implication, this living parable of proven glory and humble nobility—and it, as I say, has made you free.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
But among contemporary socio-economic parables, Mr. Park’s latest is an amusingly cutting one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
Buffett’s lessons and parables remind me of the volatility in technology stocks this year.
From Barron's ● Dec. 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
There are lengthy jokes, a smattering of horror, some nonfiction, even romances, poetry and parables.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
As for this truck-and-fanbelt story, the Reverend loved to speak in parables, and we could surely spot one coming.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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