fable

Though he would scoff at anything so banal as a fable of lost innocence, audiences will ponder to what extent Chris is meant to be an American allegory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Fischer and Wilson’s bawdy fable is predominately about how this flammable hunk makes the rest of the villagers burn up with jealousy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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

The other man, also big and fair-skinned, looked older because of his meaner, sharp-featured face like an animal's in a beast fable a child knows by looking at the picture not to trust.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Sem-Sandberg marveled at Carson’s use of the myths, characters, stories and fables from that time, and the way she puts them into a modern context.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The historian’s duty, Mr. Sebag Montefiore writes, is to the facts, “but the fables and myths are important parts of the history too.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Likewise, Schoenbrun specializes in zeitgeisty fables about 21st century isolation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

It’s about good versus evil, gods versus monsters — the fables we’ve been telling since the beginning of time, and why they will be with us until the end.

From Salon ● May 19, 2026

At night, instead of my mother telling stories, I would tell stories of Hansel and Gretel, Pinocchio, Cinderella and the fables of Aesop.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Across town from Good Time, Tashkent Supermarket, an Uzbek grocer with an enormous and fabled hot bar, opened its first Manhattan location in the West Village last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

The result is Australia's fabled foursome now have 607 wickets in Tests in which they have played as a quartet.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

As its small cast obsesses over a fabled alien encounter and seems willing to stop at nothing to find release in a divine being, be careful, “The Pineapple” argues, of the personal Eden you seek.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The meeting at Burnham's Downing Street office and residence came after the leaders celebrated bilateral ties with King Charles III at a preview of the fabled Bayeux Tapestry in London on Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Nevertheless, highly placed sources within the Ministry have confirmed that the disturbance centered on the fabled Hall of Prophecy.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

"I think him worthy of the greatest praise for the many new and true observations which he has made, to the disgrace of so many vain and fabling authors."

From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Henry Smith Williams

Also I wondered what J. Rodney Potts might have to apprehend from the leaven of fact in the fabling of Billy Durgin.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson

A wise old man—I believe he was a bishop—once said he knew "that outside the real world is a world of fine fabling."

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson

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