Sentence examples for fable of loss from inspiring English sources

It is a fable of loss, and an often troubling meditation on fathers and sons.

This one is also, at root, a fairytale, but a kindlier fable of loss and longing lit by moments of rare beauty.

In what she describes as "a weird coincidence", her latest book, A Kind Man, a short, deceptively simple fable of loss and grief, appeared 50 years to the day after her precocious debut.

For the 15th anniversary, there was Blood, Sweat and Tears; for the 25th, it was Lucky Sods, and for Hull Truck's 30th anniversary production, Godber was inspired by the experience of moving his mum out of the council house in which she lived all her adult life, Our House is an almost Chekovian fable of memory and loss.

The result is a tender fable of love and sacrifice.

Her website states that, "Evoking the folk tales, mythology, and fables of her childhood, Dover weaves tales of loss, failure, greed and deceit".

Green's "George Washington" was a quiet, gorgeous fable about loss and friendship set among a group of mostly African-American preadolescents -- an after-school special reimagined as an art film.

Nevertheless, The Things We Did for Love is an impressive fable about the loss of innocence and the consequent descent into hell.

Its theme, which is that of all fables, is loss.

Remember the fable of the princess and the pea.

(The Fable of the Open Book).