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With this intimate, painful epiphany, the show’s larger parable about obligingly submitting to ahistorical ignorance is blunted with a spiritually benevolent ideal.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

The film is, he said, is "another parable of parental crisis dressed up as a brightly coloured family adventure" - and a "cautionary tale about online childhoods".

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

The situation resembles the parable of the scorpion and the turtle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

As Mr. Meslow observes, on some level “Twin Peaks” was always a parable about nostalgia’s dangers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Set in medieval Spain, Parsifal is ostensibly a parable about the Holy Grail, the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

As Sam Sacks writes, “Ms. Strout has developed her true mastery in an archetypal mode, writing stories that resemble secular parables or everyman morality dramas.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Buffett’s lessons and parables remind me of the volatility in technology stocks this year.

From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025

But Martin’s stories, along with being informed by actual history, are parables of power struggles among the ruling classes.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024

There are lengthy jokes, a smattering of horror, some nonfiction, even romances, poetry and parables.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

The boy was brought before the chief and asked if he knew us and if he had ever heard us speak parables in the white man’s language.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah