fable
Example Sentences
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The Grand Prix winner of last year’s Cannes Critics Week, filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s snaky, surprising fable starts with a sneeze and explodes into a saga about bureaucracy, modernization and moral corruption.
From Los Angeles Times
Aesop’s fable “The Tortoise and the Hare” teaches the idea that slow and steady wins the race.
From Barron's
Aesop’s fable “The Tortoise and the Hare” teaches the idea that slow and steady wins the race.
From Barron's
The Emmy-winning “Primal” established its fable about a pair of tragedy survivors banding together against a supernaturally savage world over 10 riveting episodes that defy the common approach to narrative.
From Salon
As the creature who hoists men on their own petards in the ferociously feminist Frankenstein fable, Stone won her second Oscar.
From Los Angeles Times
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