Sentence examples for this is a fable from inspiring English sources
Poetry: "This is a fable.
But this is a fable that is all moral and no story.
But despite its adorable star and likability, this is a fable with little flavor.
This is a fable, after all, and if the soundtrack makes the little geriatric ensemble sound better, and bigger, than the Basie band in its prime, so what?
And, as the original trailer hammers home – even as it sternly asserts this is a fable of how evil can infect the clear conscience – it is a bargain.
Famously, Kubrick remarked to Alexander Walker that this was a "fable, not a prediction", but it's easy to forget the extraordinary excitement and rate of technical progress in the Space Race Sixties, and how the year 2001 didn't then seem that implausible for what was shown on screen.
Typical American tourists of the time, you presume, noting the guidebook in his hand, but this is a Patricia Highsmith fable, which means that you would be wrong.
This is a morality fable for grown-ups, evoking the familiar idioms of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton in a style you might term Victorian ghastly.
Mysterious and teasing, this is a wonderful fable about the futility of owning and hoarding while the past eats beauty and life away.
"Guess I got what I deserved," it opens, toeing the Gilligan party line, that this is a moral fable in which nobody gets to win.
