beast fable

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Noun
  • But Machete is also a still-timely political allegory about a monstrous conspiracy targeting Mexican immigrants.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • On a personal level, Moving’s allegory of superpowers as disability—cemented by disabled superhero Lee Jae-man (Kim Sung-kyun)—is an overdue approach to the genre.
    Geoffrey Bunting, Time, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The playwrights intended the drama as an allegorical parable for the age shaped by Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy.
    Time, Time, 10 July 2025
  • The story is often described as a parable of freedom versus control.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Anti-Zionism rejects compromise, shuns a two-state solution and flattens a complex conflict to a simple morality play.
    Jason Nevarez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2025
  • What follows is an unexpected morality play surrounding not only the complications of bringing Rajesh’s actions to light, but also Maitri’s unsavory methods that sparked this violent eruption, which rest on her bringing harm to another, equally vulnerable woman.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 17 June 2025
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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“Beast fable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beast%20fable. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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