Sentence examples for fables with from inspiring English sources

There was Laura Marling, singing her folky, mysterious fables with a serene glow.

By then Vollard had a new idea: an edition of French poet Jean de La Fontaine's Fables, with coloured illustrations resembling 18th-century prints.

Yet Ms. Vodianova, with a steely character behind the sweet face and child-like body, still believes in Russian fairy tales and fables, with their complex dragons and firebirds.

Finally, there is a Hebrew Ysopet (the common title for a medieval version of Aesop) that shares several of its fables with the famous collection made by Marie de France in the late 12th century.

Instead, as illustrated by last week's report about a Florida athlete indicted on charges of willfully transmitting H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, these are nuanced and complicated fables, with morals that extend beyond the disease itself.

One of the main purposes of modern feature-length animation is to blend together traditional film genres — usually romantic comedy cross-bred with action-adventure — and recast them as beast fables with ready-made merchandising potential.

A modern fable with a prophetic ending.

"The graphic novel is an American fable with strong supernatural elements".

But despite its adorable star and likability, this is a fable with little flavor.

It is a modern fable, with overtones of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice — and with the genders reversed.

The result, despite the modern setting, is a strangely old-fashioned fable, with a redeeming innocent thrown among evil men.