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Example sentences for: fable

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The story of the travails of a brainy single Jewish female in New York is lauded as a "wry modern fable" (Merle Rubin, the Wall Street Journal ) that shows off Ozick's flair for Isaac Bashevis Singer-style magical realism.
Compare that pale fable with the force of the words of Marcus, a student of the gnostic teacher Valentinus (c.
The horse in Brewer's Twentieth Century Phrase and Fable [XVIII, 4] can only be referred to as white if it is a Lippizaner.
Those in favor say the film is really a fable about parental love, since Benigni's character's antics are really an effort to shield his son from the horrors of World War II.
The three-candidate runoff that results is a loose parody of the '96 presidential election, which makes for "a moral fable with rare comic bite" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone ). ( Slate 's David Edelstein the film "exuberantly caustic."