beast fable

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Noun
  • Sci-fi stories about alien invasions have often functioned as political allegories for anxieties around empire and immigration, Lechuga says.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 3 June 2026
  • While a campus novel may not seem like the most logical follow-up, Williams' latest — which centers on the friendship between a misanthropic professor's assistant and a student — is another pitch-black allegory told in gothic, obliterative prose.
    Tiffany Kelly, Entertainment Weekly, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • Apparently all mothers, even surrogate mothers, were alike, but at least Adele no longer had to fear monitory parables from her real mother.
    Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • On Sundays, O’Neal’s father preached hope from the pulpit, stories of his family intertwined with morals and truths and parables.
    Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Every policy debate becomes a morality play.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2026
  • But if the public takeaway is only simply that Stonepeak is the bad guy, that turns this conversation into a morality play instead of a governance reform movement.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • Zendaya’s character, Marie, a depressive addict, who finds herself at complete unease in the Hollywood bestiary, claws at Malcolm, played by John David Washington, who is nothing more than a vessel for Levinson’s entitled auteur grievances.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Kratos and his son Atreus traverse the nine realms, dig up old traumas, and stand off against a whole bestiary’s worth of gargantuan, flesh-eating monsters.
    Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
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“Beast fable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beast%20fable. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.

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