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With this intimate, painful epiphany, the show’s larger parable about obligingly submitting to ahistorical ignorance is blunted with a spiritually benevolent ideal.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

The film is, he said, is "another parable of parental crisis dressed up as a brightly coloured family adventure" - and a "cautionary tale about online childhoods".

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Our critic called the series “a stylishly constructed parable about naiveté and spiritual emptiness.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

The 65-year-old came to court in downtown Los Angeles for closing arguments this month in one of the biggest trials of his career, armed with a parable of leavened bread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

It is a fast food parable about how the industry started and where it can lead.

From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser

His genial demeanour and penchant for folksy parables belie a past as a wily guerrilla fighter and ruthless political survivor.

From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026

But among contemporary socio-economic parables, Mr. Park’s latest is an amusingly cutting one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

I was so green in the world that I hadn’t accepted there could be parables without a moral, questions without an answer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

“A New Hope,” “ The Empire Strikes Back” and “Jedi” collectively became a kind of morality North Star for Gen X, augmented by Joseph Campbell’s authentication of the films as spiritual parables.

From Salon ● May 25, 2024

“It is similar to telling parables, but in the white man’s language,” I concluded.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah