Sentence examples for on a fable from inspiring English sources

It is usually dated to the Paris production in 1753 of Les Troqueurs ("The Barterers"), based on a fable by Jean de La Fontaine and having original music by a court violinist, Antoine Dauvergne.

Colorfully elaborating on a fable now popular in the financial press, the author argues that during Wall Street's darkest hours in 2008, Dimon's courage and common sense helped avert an even worse disaster.

And when she has questions about her adoption, we want her to be able to go to the source, not rely on a fable made up by Walter and me about a woman who lived far away and loved her daughter so much that she wanted her to have a better life.

Stop by the Ole Miss campus to visit his home of 40-years, Rowan Oak, where you can explore his old rooms, including the office where he did his writing (look for his outline of 'A Fable,' on the wall).

The section on Aristotle is a fable about a Greek king, and has nothing to do with any extant Aristotelian work.

"Miracle on the 17th Green" — a fable, really — is a one-off, and not a typical Patterson novel, except in following the short-chapter, short-paragraph model.

The main character, Esteban, was based on young Sandinistas in a "fable about disillusionment as well as exploitation".

"You don't go from the laboratory test-tube straight to someone's garage and then on to success that's a fable," he says.

Jean-Luc Godard's film – "a science fiction film without special effects" in the words of the critic Andrew Sarris; "a fable on a realistic ground" in Godard's own description – is a cry of protest aimed at the worshippers of science and logic.

For Robert Harris, author of the recent thriller Pompeii, the story is, in part, "hubris and nemesis"; a fable on the "notion that an ordered society, where everyone assumes that life will always go on … is suddenly interrupted by a force outside their control" – as he told his interviewers in the essay collection Pompeii in the Public Imagination.

"THE BIG MOUTH MOUSE," a puppet show based on a Japanese fable.