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Example sentences for: parable
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Throughout this terse, entertaining parable (it won the grand prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival), the Belgian-born writer-directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne ( La Promesse , 1996) immerse you in the sensations of Rosetta's life: her daily, roundabout slog through the woods to reach the trailer park where she lives with her alcoholic mother (she's too ashamed to go through the front entrance); her frustrating treks to find employment, however menial; and, most of all, her countless rages at a society that refuses to grant her a "normal" (her word) existence.
So in the real economy, as in the parable, productivity growth in one sector seems to have led to job gains in the other.
I'd like to end my side our conversation with a parable.
Its protagonist, a red-neck propane salesman, is deemed the heir to Roseanne and Archie Bunker . Another favorite is WB's tongue-in-cheek action series Buffy the Vampire Slayer , about a 15-year-old super-heroine: "A postfeminist parable on the challenge of balancing one's personal and work life" ( Time ).
Despite protests from the Catholic League, reviewers agree that writer-director Kevin Smith's latest is "a tortured testament from a true believer" (Richard Corliss, Time ). What's more, this "obviously devout, enlightened parable" about a pair of rebellious angels (played by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) is "mercilessly funny" and "gratifyingly cynicism free" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, and Alan Rickman round out the cast as the 13 th apostle, a muse, and a messenger from God.
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