Sentence examples for cautionary fable from inspiring English sources
Is this a cautionary fable or is it science fiction?
As a cautionary fable, "The Beach" is more grandiose.
At heart, her film is a cautionary fable about the fallacy of trying to cheat fate.
And beneath the roller-coaster thrills of Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report" lurks a cautionary fable about government surveillance.
But in the following weeks and months, "The Willow Tree" curdles into a bitter, cautionary fable about answered prayers.
They were passed down through generations, mainly by women, and served as cautionary fables.
Dr. Groopman and Dr. Gawande have assumed the Roueché mantle, but their cautionary fables could not be more different from his neatly packaged stories of medical success.
I didn't set out to write a book, but when I realised that the hundreds of single-spaced pages addressed to Dick ___ during those months might actually be research material, I conceived the novel as a conte, a narrative, a cautionary tale or fable.
In Midwestern primary schools, I read aloud my cautionary little monstrous fable, for instance, about nose-picking, that left the teachers with straining smiles and 80 semi-hysterical grossed-out kids to be calmed down after I departed.
And for those places beyond the reach of the Imperium, those silent spaces where planets spin and stars burst -- a sense of infinity that sets the ultimate scene for what Mr. Harrison calls "a classic story, a fable, a cautionary tale, the stuff of myth".
