fables

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That Niall finds Ruben so alluring is natural to Gadd, who believes the notion of a valiant male figure has been bred into everyone via fables and fairy tales.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Interlaced with the prosaic reflections are a series of fables involving inhabitants from the present and past.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 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

Hawley and the actor jointly decided to assign this physical trait to Kirsh, a visual ode to Roy Batty, Rutger Hauer’s formidable Replicant from “Blade Runner,” another of Scott’s futuristic fables.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2025

The stories Eddie had jotted down in his goofy, blocky handwriting, from his own silly creations to the fables Nana used to tell us when we were younger, when she’d come up to visit.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia