fable

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The fable construct extends to a frenetic visual scheme of handmade art and animation that interrupts our absorption process as if we were kids needing stimulation between all the talking heads.

From Los Angeles Times

This fable revives a very old and toxic lie.

From The Wall Street Journal

Branches spring forth from paintings and every nook is a nod to something born of a fable.

From Los Angeles Times

Still, the apocalyptic folk tales offer an irresistible fable for the times.

From The Wall Street Journal

I will get images for scenes before I know what the actual scene is, and it’ll be almost more of like a symbolic image, or it’ll be a fable that I’ve heard before.

From Los Angeles Times