Sentence examples for fable of a from inspiring English sources

Ms. Winocour is not inclined to turn "Augustine" into a neatly moralized fable of a predator and his victim.

"La Luna" is the fable of a boy who joins his quarrelsome father and grandfather in a rowboat that they paddle into the middle of the sea.

Her repeated fable of a young woman's voyage to self-discovery on the passage through love to marriage focuses upon easily recognizable aspects of life.

Let's just say that Bill's trajectory goes precipitously downward, in ways that recall "Edmond," David Mamet's bracing fable of a man under siege in New York City.

It is useful to keep this in mind in reading "Ignorance," a short fable of a novel, for Kundera is working familiar themes once again.

Caryl Churchill's "Far Away," playing in New York, is an apocalyptic fable of a world where war is eternal and all the planet's creatures have taken sides.

The original Wall Street was a Faustian fable of an ambiguously moral kind.

AS DETAILS of American snooping spread, sales of "1984", George Orwell's fable of an ever-watching state, rocketed.

For those who don't remember curling up in bed as a child, listening to an adult narrate it, this is the old fable of an arrogant hare who loses a race to a slow tortoise.

It seems that continuities between the disaffected of another age and the alienated of today are more powerful than the fables of a self-serving security apparatus would have us believe.

The old fairy tales of Irish American soldiers deserting U.S. forces during the 1846-48 Wand and joining their fellow Catholics on the Mexican side, were just that -- fables of a very distant past.