Sentence examples for sort of parable from inspiring English sources

My own life is a sort of parable of national life.

According to his former fiancée Elizabeth McGovern, who was his co-star in "Racing with the Moon" (1984), it "was a sort of parable for his whole life.

I tell it as a sort of parable: look what can happen when you believe in something, even if others think it is small and odd.

The story of the expert and the dealer — their secret contract, the lawsuit that marked a new era in the art world, and the final implosion between them — is indeed a sort of parable.

But for some observers, the story has become a sort of parable illustrating the inevitable cracks in the Palestinian nation-building project amid the utter absence of a peace process that could end the Israeli occupation.

In 1950 our reviewer, Hillis Mills, called this a "tense, well-written hare-and-hounds thriller," as well as "a complex examination of character under stress and a sort of parable of good and evil warring for the human spirit".

Although critics have drawn parallels to fables of old, connoting the tale as a microcosm of past human exoduses, Adams in 2005 revealed that: "Watership Down was never intended to be some sort of allegory or parable.

Watership Downs universal motifs of liberation and self-determination have led to the tendency of minority groups to read their own narrative into the novel, despite the author's assurance that it "was never intended to become some sort of allegory or parable".

Work, especially: "The Boxcar Children," one realizes upon rereading it, is an odd sort of capitalist parable, in which children without parents re-create the division of labor that, in the nineteen-forties, would become increasingly associated with a popular vision of the American nuclear family.

But when canvassing men across the federal prison system in recent weeks, I was struck by how many even those clearly guilty of violent crimes saw the saga as a sort of dystopian parable for their own experiences in a deeply dysfunctional criminal justice system where elites win and regular people (like Christine Blasey Ford) lose.

It is a kind of parable of the talents.