parable

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The same could just as unnervingly be said about “The Crucible,” Miller’s parable about the McCarthy witch hunts.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Mahapatra compares humanity's limited understanding of the universe -- or lack thereof -- to a well-known parable.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026

For an animated feature, “Scarlet” is unusually ambitious: It’s a “Hamlet”-adjacent existential pacifist revenge parable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

Cécé can be read as a portrait of contemporary Haiti, a parable about influencer culture or a distressing study of exploitation.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

Standing there, feeling the eyes of the two hundred Muslims upon me, I heard him make a parable about me.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey