parables

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Parables teach truths but not in a straightforward, literal manner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

Parables about teachers sent to the provinces are usually a two-way street: education and advancement for the students, life lessons for their instructor.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2022

But my favorite part of the Olivia Butler resurgence might just be Octavia’s Parables, a podcast by musician Toshi Reagon and activist Adrienne Maree Brown and a chapter-by-chapter read of both Earthseed books.

From Slate • Sep. 19, 2020

He played in the Aldeburgh festival for many years, taking part in Benjamin Britten's Church Parables, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Death in Venice, as well as Britten's television opera Owen Wingrave.

From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2011

It is first in a part of the Book of Enoch, the "Parables," chapters 37-71, dating probably from the reign of Herod, that Daniel's "Son of Man" becomes an individual.

From Religion and the War by Various