Sentence examples for symbolic tale from inspiring English sources
This is a satisfyingly symbolic tale and, according to Scheijen's sources, a false one.
American novelist and short-story writer who was a master of the allegorical and symbolic tale.
He had interpreted Jonah's story in the Qur'an as a symbolic tale.
Mr. Russell released "Lover Man," and it became a symbolic tale of cultural exploitation -- of artists who don't own their work set against businessmen who do.
That was a hugely symbolic tale when it first appeared, because it showed people that Christianity was a new sort of religion, in which human sacrifice was not on the menu.
A young African American playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks, gained increasing recognition with her surreal pageant The America Play (1993), an adaptation of The Scarlet Letter called In the Blood (1999), and Topdog/Underdog (2001), a partly symbolic tale of conflict between two brothers (named Lincoln and Booth) that reminded critics of Sam Shepard's fratricidal True West.
The heavily symbolic story is a magic-laden tale of the three sisters Clothilde, Bettine and Ophile, who all have buttock-length hair (one has blue hair, another blonde, and the third is a redhead).
He first attracted attention with De kleine Johannes (1885; The Quest, 1907), a symbolic fairy tale.
The primary text, V. M. Straka's "Ship of Theseus," is a highly symbolic, mystical tale of an odd man named S., who finds himself spinning through a widening gyre of conspiracy theories, assassination plots and strange voyages.
In 1830 he became the first member of the newly founded Hungarian Academy and produced a truly great work, Csongor és Tünde, a symbolic fairy-tale play that is reminiscent of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(Francis Pryor, Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from British Prehistory (London: Allen Lane, 2014), 80. "The creation accounts in the Book of Genesis contain, in their own symbolic and narrative language, profound teachings about human existence and its historical reality.
