Sentence examples for contemporary parable from inspiring English sources

There are some rows which, while not of earth-shaking importance in themselves, have the force of a contemporary parable.

"Wonderland" transforms Alice's surreal wanderings into a contemporary parable about reconnecting with your inner child and other watery truisms of the self-help industrial complex.

Directed with admirable clarity by Carl Cofield at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park, where tickets are free, this is ancient Greek tragedy as contemporary parable.

Lloyd Suh ("American Hwangap") tries to answer that question in this contemporary parable, which presents Jesus as a teenager traveling on the back of a camel with his pal Abigail of Galilee.

As audiences beyond the Delacorte Theatre have already heard, the production, which is directed by Oskar Eustis, the longtime artistic director of the Public Theatre, presents Shakespeare's interpretation of Roman history as a contemporary parable.

By contrast, several cobblestone squares away at the Kolowrat Theater, Arnost Goldflam was directing his own new play, "The Contract," a contemporary parable of the Abraham and Isaac story, in a distinctly personal voice.

His stories are contemporary parables, but with no clear moral message.

Dumont has an unique ability to create enigmatic, contemporary parables that get under your skin.

Smith's lively satire about a guest who refuses to leave a home in the London suburbs is also a parable of contemporary life.

Perennial innovators Pan Pan Theatre have transformed JM Synge's famous portrait of rural Irish small-mindedness into a parable of contemporary global displacement.

Penn's picture, under the simple title "hospital", can be read as a very different parable of contemporary attitudes to life.