apologue
Example Sentences
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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
And yet, though it is a watery apologue, it will not hold water for a moment.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
The apologue was not delicate, but it conveyed a common impression.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley
In Billy's apologue the Ministry was Tommy, one of the ladies was Liberalism, the other Socialism.
From Second String by Anthony Hope
