parable

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View that as a parable if you wish, or simply enjoy the adrenaline rush.

From Salon

Buffett’s lessons and parables remind me of the volatility in technology stocks this year.

From Barron's

Buffett’s lessons and parables remind me of the volatility in technology stocks this year.

From Barron's

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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