Sentence examples for In the fable from inspiring English sources

In The Fable of the Bees, first printed in 1714 and much worked over, some deluded bees resolve to act according to virtue, with disastrous consequences for their industry and their colony.

In The Fable Of Arachne, in which a story from Ovid is all but hidden inside an everyday scene in the royal tapestry workshops, a spinning wheel races round so fast you can see through it.

In the fable, Goliath was brutish and slow, and everyone knew he was the bad guy.

In the fable Buddha takes mercy on a criminal in hell who once saved a spider in his former life.

"As in the fable, it is the hobbits who are the heroes and save the land.

Tomoko's alienation is embodied in the fable that gives the movie its title.

Myth and reality are contrasted in Een lied van schijn en wezen (1981; A Song of Truth and Semblance) and in the fable-novel In Nederland (1984; In the Dutch Mountains); in both of these works, the lives of the narrators who are authors become interwoven with the lives of their characters.

Forgotten in the fables, however, is how rare those comebacks truly are.

What disconcerts many non-French readers and critics is that in the Fables profundity is expressed lightly.

Future volumes will play host to rotating creative teams, handpicked by Mr. Willingham, who want to dabble in the "Fables" universe.

This atmosphere of seriousness, essential to such yarns, is brillantly captured in The Fabled Coast by the neutral, matter-of-fact manner of the telling.