Sentence examples for plain parable from inspiring English sources
He suggested that the film "should not be read as a plain parable of incipient Nazism; the warning that it issues, about the fallout of social repression, is a universal one, and the manner of its delivery is disarmingly graceful".
"The grand message of this parable an idiot will find plain," we are told; but that doesn't diminish Brecht's ability to combine iron with native irony.
Instead of formulating plain statements about God, the world, or the duties of the Faithful, the synoptic Jesus is rather telling parables, e.g. about God as the merciful father, the Kingdom of God as a winery, whose owner compensates his workers graciously, the prodigal son etc.
Swimming offers a parable.
A pseudo-pornographic parable?
"The plain style of Camus and his unadorned reporting of social situations conceal rivetingly complex contradictions... unresolvable by rendering, as critics have done, his feelings of loyalty to French Algeria as a parable of the human condition... .., Said wrote.
He concluded with a favorite parable.
SHARON "Doubt: A Parable," drama by John Patrick Shanley.
DOVER "Doubt: A Parable," by John Patrick Shanley.
