fable

But it was 1986’s “A Smoky Mountain Christmas,” Parton’s down-home festive fable, that cemented her as a seasonal favorite.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

The final piece on the album, “Samsara,” is inspired by an ancient Mesopotamian fable about the inevitability of death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

By then, the twine was a family fable.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Sem-Sandberg marveled at Carson’s use of the myths, characters, stories and fables from that time, and the way she puts them into a modern context.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The historian’s duty, Mr. Sebag Montefiore writes, is to the facts, “but the fables and myths are important parts of the history too.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

"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

The Laguna Beach space, a 1,000-square-foot love letter to fairy tales, is a fantastical, mystical wonderland, where fables of lost love, ghostly pets and irresistible avarice are told via miniature installations and ornate, storybook art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2025

It wasn’t the first time that false prophets announced to us: peace-in-the-world, the-Red-Cross-negotiating-our-liberation, or other fables .

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel

The result is Australia's fabled foursome now have 607 wickets in Tests in which they have played as a quartet.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

The meeting at Burnham's Downing Street office and residence came after the leaders celebrated bilateral ties with King Charles III at a preview of the fabled Bayeux Tapestry in London on Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 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

In episode 150 of his acclaimed podcast “A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs,” Andrew Hickey offers a recap/analysis of the fabled 1967 television series “The Prisoner.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

The best, who were fabled heroes, were able to cut up a steer in under five minutes.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

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

Not of a fatal malady, I own; his cough misled you, and he has no scruples in fabling to any extent.

From Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott

Yet, fabling fancy oft shall lead My footsteps to the silver Tweed, Through scenes that I no more must view.

From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Sir Walter Scott

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

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

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli