Sentence examples for thin parable from inspiring English sources
With no other authentic characters inhabiting the novel, what's left is an intricate framing device surrounding a somewhat thin parable (Moral: Never volunteer for a research project offered to you by a robot).
Wes Craven's 1977 film, "The Hills Have Eyes," in which suburbanites battled mutant cannibals, was a pulpy parable of the thin line separating civilization from savagery.
When Newton and Seale were preparing the first edition of the newspaper in 1966, they listened obsessively to "brother Bobby" Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, especially Ballad of a Thin Man, which Newton read, rather fancifully, as a parable of racist oppression.
"Thin" could have been "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" for women, a rousing parable about the extinction of individual souls by American institutions.
Despite all of McFarlane's attempts to turn his sex comedy into a parable for acceptance, the film's awkward high-minded rhetoric feels like little more than a thin veil to excuse the film's deep seated insensitivity.
Swimming offers a parable.
A pseudo-pornographic parable?
He concluded with a favorite parable.
SHARON "Doubt: A Parable," drama by John Patrick Shanley.
