fable

At some point in childhood, through one classic fable or another, most of us absorb the lesson that looks can be deceiving.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026

France President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to "a great artist who transformed an Iranian childhood into a universal fable".

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

It doesn’t lose its way, yet doesn’t feel entirely confined to one place — a critical component that allows “Is God Is” to play like a modern biblical fable.

From Salon ● May 19, 2026

As the cautionary 1945 fable “Animal Farm” memorably shows, George Orwell had some thoughts about the Soviet Union and the terrible folly in politicized moralism.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

Then there are others where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing, or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high-colored magical confusion takes permanent hold.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Likewise, Schoenbrun specializes in zeitgeisty fables about 21st century isolation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Those movies proved there is a market for large-scale live-action fables employing practical and realistic special effects, along with massive sets built on location.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

“The Wayfinder” combines religious myths, ecological fables and nationalist origin stories into a thrilling hero’s quest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

"The great thing about these movies is that they are like fables," Byron Howard, one of the two directors, told AFP in Los Angeles.

From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025

‘Do you know why, Aragorn? What are the fables of the forest that Boromir had heard?’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Ned Ludd was the fabled hero of the early-19th-century Luddites, who smashed stocking frames—knitting machines for socks—and burned factories to protest job-destroying technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

The fabled entertainer died after a series of health issues that led her to postpone several performing commitments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Shaun Edwards' departure from France's national team is being negotiated, with the fabled defence coach set to be without a role a year out from the Rugby World Cup.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

Soaring ticket prices and extra security for US President Donald Trump do not alter the electric energy of fabled Madison Square Garden as it hosts games three and four of the NBA Finals.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

His previous work included helping excavate a land site at Gordion, Turkey, which, in the eighth century BCE, had been the capital of King Midas’s fabled golden empire.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

If I marry Again sounds like one of those pulpy domestic morals with which the jaded directors are so fond of fabling.

From Time Magazine Archive

No trust the fabling readers of the stars Have e'er deserved.

From The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller

Ah! why do fabling poets tell That thy fleet wings outstrip the wind?

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

It confutes, according to Knight's own ideas: it alleges a few scattered facts in favour of astrological productions, which may be picked up in that immensity of fabling which disgraces history.

From Thaumaturgia by An Oxonian

Also I wondered what J. Rodney Potts might have to apprehend from the leaven of fact in the fabling of Billy Durgin.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson