apologue
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This reading of Louis and Claudia’s lineage allows writer Hannah Moscovitch to transform a station along the characters’ development track into an apologue about war and misery.
From Salon ● May 13, 2024
As often as this apologue is repeated, I still catch myself questioning its accuracy: Does the culture not prefer to hold people endlessly responsible for past indiscretions?
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 25, 2016
Erasmus has pointed out some of these sources, in the responses of oracles; the allegorical symbols of Pythagoras; the verses of the poets; allusions to historical incidents; mythology and apologue; and other recondite origins.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
A round of hoarse merriment went to this shrewd apologue, of which I was yet to learn the application; but waited not long for it.
From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur F. Wallis
The history of Julian has been employed as an apologue by more than one writer when satirising some religious reaction of his day.
From Sermons by J. B. Lightfoot
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