apologue
Example Sentences
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This reading of Louis and Claudia’s lineage allows writer Hannah Moscovitch to transform a station along the characters’ development track into an apologue about war and misery.
From Salon ● May 13, 2024
As often as this apologue is repeated, I still catch myself questioning its accuracy: Does the culture not prefer to hold people endlessly responsible for past indiscretions?
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 25, 2016
I am rather proud of this little apologue of the apple.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
There was really a touching truth in it, the stuff of—what did people call such things?—an apologue or a parable.
From The Sacred Fount by Henry James
The history of Julian has been employed as an apologue by more than one writer when satirising some religious reaction of his day.
From Sermons by J. B. Lightfoot
