Sentence examples for touching fable from inspiring English sources

(Manohla Dargis) 'Le Havre' (No rating, 1 43, in French) The Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki uses the French port city of Le Havre as the backdrop for a slight, touching fable of lower-depths solidarity that is also a tribute to a romantic, populist ideal of France.

(Jeannette Catsoulis) 'Le Havre' (No rating, 1 43, in French) The Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki uses the French port city of Le Havre as the backdrop for a slight, touching fable of lower-depths solidarity that is also a tribute to a romantic, populist ideal of France.

(Scott) 'Le Havre' (No rating, 1 43, in French) The Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki uses the French port city of Le Havre as the backdrop for a slight, touching fable of lower-depths solidarity that is also a tribute to a romantic, populist ideal of France.

(Dargis) 'Le Havre' (No rating, 1 43, in French) The Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki uses the French port city of Le Havre as the backdrop for a slight, touching fable of lower-depths solidarity that is also a tribute to a romantic, populist ideal of France.

Click here to view video This touching fable concerns some suburban Ohio teenagers who react against their essentially kind parents whose solicitous behaviour they find overbearing and move out of their homes during the summer holidays to a house they've built in the woods.

6. Hancock One of the more divisive movies of the year, this thoughtful and touching fable of a man in search of his own identity is cleverly disguised as a wham-bam super hero comedy headlined by the biggest star on the planet.

Almost singlehandedly she turns the inconsequential erotic misadventures of Emma... into a touching romantic fable about love and its defenses and the loss of innocence.... Miss Peters has always oozed a cuddlesome Shirley Temple-like sweetness and vulnerability.

A touching book of fables and fairy tales you could read to a child, saturated with Teicher's unusually gentle and weird imagination.

Instead, the author describes his quiet, deeply touching story as "fable-like".

And the classic amateur made good, be-whatever-you-want to-be, can't-make-it-up element of the whole gloriously earthy fable touched a nerve among millions of people who did not actually know Ginger McCain.

One is an artful, socially minded fable that is as touching and sweet as it is mournful and haunting.