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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
Mr. Smith is an insightful filmmaker and “Bring Me the Beauties” is a stylishly constructed parable about naivete and spiritual emptiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
The situation resembles the parable of the scorpion and the turtle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
You have heard it, and it—this true story of rich implication, this living parable of proven glory and humble nobility—and it, as I say, has made you free.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Kafka’s parables of angst and displacement are naturally diasporic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
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
As it draws to a close, Hwang’s lethal playground games are cautionary parables about tribalism driven by greed.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025
There are lengthy jokes, a smattering of horror, some nonfiction, even romances, poetry and parables.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
He was known for anecdotes, and parables from Syria, quotations from the Qur’an, stories from his travels around the world.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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