fable

The final piece on the album, “Samsara,” is inspired by an ancient Mesopotamian fable about the inevitability of death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

At some point in childhood, through one classic fable or another, most of us absorb the lesson that looks can be deceiving.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026

France President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to "a great artist who transformed an Iranian childhood into a universal fable".

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

It doesn’t lose its way, yet doesn’t feel entirely confined to one place — a critical component that allows “Is God Is” to play like a modern biblical fable.

From Salon ● May 19, 2026

Even if I must be the outcast, cursed by the rules of his hideous fable.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

America’s most-loved fictional titans, Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne, have bottomless wealth to fund their vigilante adventures, making them especially mesmerizing to an audience raised on rags-to-riches fables.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

“The Wayfinder” combines religious myths, ecological fables and nationalist origin stories into a thrilling hero’s quest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 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

We’ve long been sold fables about robots yearning to be more human — to love us, guard us and sympathize with us before replacing us.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 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

The Welsh-born, 38-year-old engineer has logged hundreds of laps on Germany’s fabled Nürburgring Nordschleife purifying Bentley’s quintessences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

A frightening encounter with a fabled Sea Hag in the third episode turns dyed-in-the-wool skeptic Tom into a believer, allowing Rhys to exercise his pipes and impressive pitch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Soaring ticket prices and extra security for US President Donald Trump do not alter the electric energy of fabled Madison Square Garden as it hosts games three and four of the NBA Finals.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

Accompanied by HMS Terror, it was searching for the fabled Northwest Passage.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

Then, in 2008, the Canadian government’s archaeological organization Parks Canada began to search for the two fabled ships.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

If I marry Again sounds like one of those pulpy domestic morals with which the jaded directors are so fond of fabling.

From Time Magazine Archive

And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

It confutes, according to Knight's own ideas: it alleges a few scattered facts in favour of astrological productions, which may be picked up in that immensity of fabling which disgraces history.

From Thaumaturgia by An Oxonian

The Italian Favellio, parlerie, babil, caquet—Alberti’s “Grand Dictionnaire”—does not wholly convey the idea of our modern Humbug, which combines fabling and caquet.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

It confutes, according to the knight's own ideas: it alleges a few scattered facts in favour of astrological predictions, which may be picked up in that immensity of fabling which disgraces history.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli