parables
Example Sentences
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Directors love Wagner’s operas, which infuse the suggestive sketchiness of parables into clearly conceived plots and characters.
From New York Times
These little parables of precarity, with their dull earth tones and barren landscapes, reflect the motherless, scorched-earth quality of Seville in decline.
From New York Times
Between Charles Perrault writing moral fictions in France and the Brothers Grimm spinning parables in Germany, the era represents the zenith of the fairy tale genre.
From Los Angeles Times
Within these contours, Rajasekar has woven a repertoire that explores themes of individuality within the collective, or parallels between religious parables.
From Seattle Times
It felt emblematic of how the show ebbed and flowed, with Rock bobbing and weaving through jokes steeped in parables, politics and personal stories.
From Los Angeles Times
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