beast fable

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Noun
  • Great sci-fi often serves as an allegory for current social and political issues.
    James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2025
  • The comic is often read as a political allegory, particularly resonant due to the author's disappearance under Argentina's last military dictatorship, according to the Buenos Aires Herald.
    Jenna deJong, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • Sufi saints used stories, parables and allegories to teach spiritual truths.
    Sonya Rehman, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • While Jesus may have used parables and the Apostle Paul used letters, Francis used social media to spread the Gospel.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • These distortions reduce a complex conflict to a morality play.
    U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
  • But the set, in which Dylan played the electric guitar and embraced rock ’n’ roll publicly, was more complicated than a morality play pitting backward folk purists against forward-looking rockers.
    Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Citizens of Louisiana only have to look up at their state flag to see an animal doing some pretty wild — and deeply symbolic — stuff out of a medieval bestiary.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 28 Mar. 2025
  • This fair is also a bestiary, with many of its animal objects ready to serve.
    Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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