Sentence examples for like a fable from inspiring English sources

Really, it's more like a fable or a folktale.

Ever since, he says, life has been like a fable.

His spiritual passage to Catholicism was like a fable.

To a lot of people, it looked like a fable: our fable.

Another, titled "A Handkerchief of Freedom," reads even more like a fable: "The dictator sneezed.

(About the name: "It sounds almost like a fable," he says. "Or a perfect name for a rock band").

Once I caught my reflection in a picture window illuminated by a streetlight, holding the gun and crouching, and I was thrilled to see that I looked like a movie star in a role, or even someone who might have a movie made about him — someone knowledgeable about and attentive to the sinewy truths of life, like in a fable.

Shadowland is like reading a fable -- a good one -- when you desperately want to know what comes next and your heart is pumping at 100 miles an hour even though you can practically spell out the ending.

She likes to relate a fable about a scorpion and a turtle she heard from Peter Mandelson.

And in what other business is one likely to come across a fable like that of Poupou Lapin?

It was an inspired choice, evoking happiness and eternal youth, and its pairing with such a common last name makes it sound like something from a fable.