fable

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

And a sense that this moral fable is playing out in other groups among the 600 or so mountain gorillas who are staving off extinction in their Virunga Mountains enclave.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

In the hope of pleasing everyone, she took everyone’s advice, and like the old man and his donkey in the fable suited nobody.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

This is a film 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

Interlaced with the prosaic reflections are a series of fables involving inhabitants from the present and past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 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

The new book’s mostly-pictures-with-some-words approach is a return to Brown’s earlier work when he was creating charming fables for toddlers about our sometimes fraught, sometimes empathetic attitude toward nature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025

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

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

In 1914, fabled French carbuilder Delage sent a two-car team with drivers René Thomas and Albert Guyot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

Next up for O'Sullivan is another member of snooker's fabled 'Class of 92' with 50-year-old Higgins standing in his way.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

“The fabled Rhqyne,” said Tyrion when he glimpsed the slow green waterway from atop a rise.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

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 Oxonian, An

With thy fabling and thy reasoning, i-wis,      I am beguiled; but I have known thee ere this:      Art not Celestine, that dwelleth by the river side?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Ah! why do fabling poets tell That thy fleet wings outstrip the wind?

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

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 Wilson, Harry Leon