Sentence examples for elaborate parable from inspiring English sources
It sounded like an elaborate parable about the bride of death, and her husband could not convince her that it was all in her head.
The tone of the book is at once antic and professorial, as if a very smart middle-aged academic were working his way through an absurd and elaborate parable for his kids.
Larry applies to a series of local rabbis for help, and the rabbis, vain of their wisdom, either miss the point of his troubles or tell elaborate parables that illuminate nothing; they have no idea why Hashem is pursuing this man.
At Kenyon, Wallace elaborated on his water parable: The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about….The fact is that in the day to day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have a life or death importance.
At Kenyon, Wallace elaborated on his water parable: The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about....The fact is that in the day to day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have a life or death importance.
"The Black Horror Show" proves the most elaborate entry, and the most successful as well--an ironic parable about assimilated blacks whose heritage asserts itself through werewolf transformations.
The 25,000 lines that follow present a loosely structured succession of tales, parables, anecdotes and vignettes in verse, narratives which Rumi uses to elaborate his mystical thought.
Swimming offers a parable.
A pseudo-pornographic parable?
