Sentence examples for biblical fable from inspiring English sources

Also to be heard are the Variations, the compact biblical fable "The Flood" and "Requiem Canticles".

The episodes Turner picked out from classical myth and biblical fable are boldly reinterpreted when he paints them.

The images, dialogue (some of it improvised, much of it heard from a distance) and hushed music (by ENNIO MORRICONE) fuse into a story that has the resonance of a biblical fable and the intensity of a dream.

But where Steven Berkoff memorably gave us a stylised, slow-motion dream, Jamie Lloyd's Headlong production transports the biblical fable to a world of grungy apocalyptic excess; while the result has an undeniable visceral power, it misses the curious moral force behind Wilde's lavish display of decadence.

It is always the "Year of the Horse.'" Great horse stories mystify and seduce us then rise into an animal gone Biblical fable.

"Each of them had horrible stories to tell, fantastically disturbing, like tragic fairy tales or Biblical fables," Gottesman recalled.

One thing you can't say about Noah, the big budget reimagining of the biblical flood fable (starring Russell Crowe as the titular boat builder) is that it lacks in ambition.

They dump too much food in no matter how often they're told to be careful, to use just a pinch, and even after they've read Biblical-sounding fables about the fish who ate too much and grew too large for its bowl, shattering the sides, they watch gleefully while he consumes like mad, unable to stop.

Although the tale of Harambe's death is an evergreen fable of biblical proportions, it's also open-ended enough to be adaptable.

The visual clarity of the new release reveals the extraordinary means by which Murnau united the emotional, political, psychological, and moral domains in his quasi-Biblical yet modern and naturalistic fable.

He's the bestselling author of Stranger at the Gate, Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality, and his most recent book Grace and Demion: A Fable for Victims of Biblical Intolerance is published this month by Lethe Press.