Sentence examples for my parable from inspiring English sources

From an agnostic position, I have become convinced that it plays a very important part, and those of us, believers or nonbelievers, who wish this were not the case have our work cut out getting people to change their minds, or, as my parable last week suggested, perhaps getting them to see that they don't know what really matters to them.

Parable, my current startup, had similar interest from Facebook, although this one did not pan out.

"I will open my mouth in a parable.

Yet the Jews have never relinquished hope, and, no matter how secular they have become, they base their claim on my uncle's Talmudic parable.

Written for readers who would find a "Fun With Dick and Jane" primer too demanding, "Who Moved My Cheese?" featured a parable involving employee-like mice and their notion of happiness (cheese).

"I will open my mouth in a parable," she reads, "I will utter dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us".

"Love your neighbor!" That's what I said as I challenged my church with the Parable of the Good Samaritan.

That's when I realized that my anecdote is a parable about not only integrity, but about the very nature of masculinity.

"No one expected Virginia Woolf to write about the Munich agreement, but everyone assumes my novels are parables about the new intifada".

(You keep expecting Glinda to start singing, "Did you ever know you were my hero, Elphaba?") As a parable of fascism and freedom, "Wicked" so overplays its hand that it seriously dilutes its power to disturb.

Because impatience has been my longtime nemesis, the above ancient parable quickly came to mind as I sat behind the potters wheel for my first ceramics class at the Clay Studio & Gallery in Thousand Oaks, California.