parables

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Parables teach truths but not in a straightforward, literal manner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

Mr. Ross lets that ethic inform how he guides each of his bands — not just Good Vibes, but also his quartet and the eight-piece Parables, which he sees as his next major creative focus.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2020

But my favorite part of the Olivia Butler resurgence might just be Octavia’s Parables, a podcast by musician Toshi Reagon and activist Adrienne Maree Brown and a chapter-by-chapter read of both Earthseed books.

From Slate • Sep. 19, 2020

He played in the Aldeburgh festival for many years, taking part in Benjamin Britten's Church Parables, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Death in Venice, as well as Britten's television opera Owen Wingrave.

From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2011

In �� 64 to 69 we have the first great group of Parables with the visit to Gerasa and the return to Nazareth.

From A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by Robertson, Archibald Thomas