Sentence examples for as fable from inspiring English sources

Ms. Johnson's first story, portraying the partitioning and exploitation of Alaskan land as an attack by a monster, is fine as fable.

Television is by its nature a fictionalization of history; it personifies history as fable agreed upon.

It is difficult to figure out how to play them - as fable, sendup or reality.

The best passages in Fitzgerald's novels always worked better as fable and fairy tale than as realistic fiction.

(Ages 7 and up) A story that can be read as fable or lampoon of the doting dog owner.

It works well as fable, and there's enough complexity in Shaoai's character for it to work well as fiction, too.

Instead, the author describes his quiet, deeply touching story as "fable-like".

Likewise, Ephron is on to something when she describes her films as fables.

Though written as simply as fables, the wry humour makes them appeal to a wide age range.

Ingeniously, Obreht juxtaposes Natalia's matter-of-fact narration with contemporary folk tales that are as simple, enthralling and sometimes brutal as fables by Kipling or Dinesen.

You have to read them allegorically, as fables about the relative weakness of innocence and the bottomless malice of the universe.