fables

Example Sentences

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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

It will eventually take its place among the great dark Los Angeles fables.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2024

It wasn’t the first time that false prophets announced to us: peace-in-the-world, the-Red-Cross-negotiating-our-liberation, or other fables .

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel