Sentence examples for modern parable from inspiring English sources
THE best modern parable of progress was, aptly, ahead of its time.
This episode can seem like a modern parable of the pampered soccer player.
A tale of upper-class adultery becomes a modern parable of futility.
How cricket came to be among the Stanford casualties is a modern parable.
In addition to big fun and big flavors, Fearing's presents a modern parable.
The following are three modern parables on the way we grovel (New New Groveling, hereafter referred to as New2Groveling) today.
Telling modern parables using ancient rhetorical technique to invoke an imagined future of change; drawing on a scattershot range of inspirations from Shakespeare to advertising.
The book is fundamentally a compilation of renovated jokes and shtetl tales, and Biro moves easily between adaptations of Jewish standards, reminiscent of Sholem Aleichem's Railroad Stories, and more modern parables.
It's a dizzying piece which can be variously interpreted as modern political parable, timeless fantastical fable or razor-sharp depiction of impending dementia.
But the story of Tonawanda Coke is also a modern day parable about the clout citizens can wield when they dig in their heels and demand healthy air.
