Sentence examples for one parable from inspiring English sources

One parable that Trump presented to the boys it was, again, more of a reality-television recap than a campfire tale included several of those elements.

Thus, in one parable the "prodigal son" returns to "the father," presumably representing God (Luke 15:15–32).

I'm not much on parables, but this one from Zorba the Greek is beautiful and apt.

There is at least one new parable, that of the two young men.

His "one-note parable" can be read on a basic level and then it can be read on a level that encompasses sexual and racial politics, the benefits of socialised healthcare and the inherent problems of a market-driven society.

In The Times, a newspaper Gove used to work for, Janice Turner called Of Mice and Men a "one-note parable" and held the fact that it has only one female character up as an example of its inferiority.

People asked to give either speech, including the one on the Bible's parable of the good Samaritan, were no more likely to help.

Dubious folk-historical territorial claims, on the one hand; an ancient parable to warn of the next man-made destruction of the planet modern, on the other.

It is not clear on which day of interrogations Interrogator One told the parable of American prisons, but he said that the story was targeted to Afghan citizens.

"New Yorkers are like the rich man told of in the Parable," one resident noted in the local paper.

He wrote sweeping historical sagas, intensely personal novels of self-discovery, and at least one scathing political parable.