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Longevity research always reminds me of the parable of blind men and an elephant.
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According to the parable, if they ask for the Ramsey number for two-color cliques of size 5, we should throw all the resources of human civilization into finding it.
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When employees found they would be unable to deliver on Abovitz’s vision, Magic Leap went from being one of the most intriguing tech startups outside of Silicon Valley to a parable about believing one’s own hype.
MAGIC LEAP TRIED TO CREATE AN ALTERNATE REALITY. ITS FOUNDER WAS ALREADY IN ONEVERNE KOPYTOFFSEPTEMBER 26, 2020FORTUNE
The question is not answered; and there lies the crowning beauty of the parable.
THE LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF NEW TESTAMENT TIMESJ. GRESHAM (JOHN GRESHAM) MACHEN
It is easy to see that the figures and actions are but a parable.
LIFE OF WAGNERLOUIS NOHL
But who that reads the parable to the end can fail to see that in the highest sense Lazarus was not poor, but rich?
PRACTICAL RELIGIONJOHN CHARLES RYLE
The fable or parable was anciently, as it is even now, a favourite weapon of the most successful orators.
THE FABLES OF LA FONTAINEJEAN DE LA FONTAINE
He took up his parable and told the story of his childhood and Louie's at the farm.
THE HISTORY OF DAVID GRIEVEMRS. HUMPHRY WARD
I believe that the virgins in the parable represent professors of Christianity.
The allegorical character of the parable, with its elaborate interpretation in vss.
SOURCES OF THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELSCARL S. PATTON
WORDS RELATED TO PARABLE
- Gordian knot
- bewilderment
- cliffhanger
- conundrum
- crux
- cryptogram
- grabber
- knot
- mind-boggler
- mind-twister
- mystification
- parable
- perplexity
- problem
- puzzle
- puzzlement
- puzzler
- question
- question mark
- riddle
- secret
- sixty-four dollar question
- sphinx
- sticker
- stickler
- stumper
- teaser
- tough nut to crack
- twister
- why
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
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