Sentence examples for fable of two from inspiring English sources

Aesop told a fable of two types of people: the virtuous Ant who saves for the winter and the improvident Grasshopper who's punished with starvation.

It's beautifully made - a cross between Chaplin and Cecil B de Mille, and an early Bollywood movie". The fable of two kings enamoured of the same woman "has the resonance of the Mahabharata".

Disney's Frozen managed to singlehandedly undercut decades of celluloid patriarchy with the simple fable of two princesses who are, miraculously, not entirely reliant upon handsome suitors for inspiration and a sense of self worth.

He began to make his way home last year with Gerry, the Beckettian fable of two men lost in the desert, and Elephant takes place in a middle-class suburb of Portland, Oregon.

In that friendly, lightweight fable of the European Union, seven young people from all over the Continent spend a year together in a Barcelona flat.

D. Ulrich: There is an old fable of the three bricklayers all working on the same wall.

Upon the road, to discover and to build... From The Fable of the Three Brothers, by Silvio Rodriguez.

Iron Man director Jon Favreau's live-action/CGI take on Rudyard Kipling's 1894 fable is one of two competing versions proposed by Hollywood.

O. Scott) 'AZUR & ASMAR' (PG, 1 39) Unfolding in a flat, luminous storybook style, this handsome animated fable from France tells of two boys on a quest to release an enchanted fairy and re-establish their childhood friendship.

Wordsworth gives examples of two fables from antiquity, Proteus rising from the sea, and Triton blowing his wreathed horn.

"The Book of Fables" is a compilation of two previous volumes of prose: "The Miner's Pale Children" (1970) and "Houses and Travellers" (1977).