Sentence examples for fable tells from inspiring English sources

His "fable" tells the story of gawky, talentless ugly duckling Louise Hovick, who is forced on stage by her mother Rose, and blossoms into star stripper Gypsy Rose Lee.

The fable tells the tale of a young prince whose grumpy mother wants him to marry so that she can step down and enjoy her later years in peace.

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Pixar Animation Studios' wonderful new aquatic fable tells the story of Marlin Mr. Brookss), a nervous, fearful clown fish searching the big, wide ocean to find his rebellious son, Nemo (Mr. Gould), who was scooped up by a diver.

The fable tells the story of how "a long time ago humans used to walk on legs and arms, just like all the other four limbed creatures", but how "their rhythm and seamless coordination made the other parts [of the body] green with envy", and "they started plotting against the two pairs".

And a raunchier and gamier translation of "Aesop's Fables" was published by Penguin Classics in which, playing off the ancient myth that hyenas changed gender every year, one fable tells of the fox's rejecting the hyena's female incarnation because he couldn't know "whether you would be my girlfriend or my boyfriend".

The book begins with a fable told by Yaya to the young Rosa.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, on which the film is based, is a slight, comic fable, told with considerable ironic distance.

THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON PigPen Theater Company, a troupe of recent graduates from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, presents a theatrical fable — told with actors, shadow puppets, music and more — about a man on a search for his missing wife.

Stravinsky's score is much more than that: a barnyard fable told as a cantata, with the voices chanting or uttering in a style that Stravinsky developed further in his better-known work "Les Noces".

A stark moral fable told in the language of the sort of western Hollywood has stopped making, the Australian director Rolf de Heer's film "The Tracker" is constructed around a suite of 10 interlocking story-songs that simmer with political outrage.