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Recent Examples of bestiaryOur Creature, Our Selves Image This fair is also a bestiary, with many of its animal objects ready to serve.—Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025 The second book is the bestiary full of dinosuars of all sizes and shapes.—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025 In the bestiary, the animals representing the sins were related to animals that existed.—John Hopewell, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024 That creature, in turn, can be traced back to medieval bestiaries as a type of whale called aspidochelone, first mentioned in a 2nd-century CE Alexandrian manuscript called the Physiologus.—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for bestiary
Throughout, in interviews with Costa, Malafaia justifies his political aspiration with Biblical parables.
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Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
10 Sep. 2025
Based on the children’s book Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth and inspired heavily by Zen koans (short Zen Buddhist parables) the show takes a mindful approach to storytelling that’s quiet and engaging for kids and adults alike.
Her 2020 duo of albums, Folklore and Evermore, channeled the sound and sensibility of indie rock, refracting her perennial personal themes through a dark, blurry lens of fantasy and allegory.
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Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
The narrative serves as an allegory for a devastating real-world crisis.
Cherry-picking statistics to suit a narrative — a form of confirmation bias, as described in the commission’s view — is dangerous and undermines the diligence that should come from responsible statistical analysis.
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Mark Carey,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
The problem comes when ideological casting choices begin to undermine the narrative, contravening Grisham’s famously effective structure and pacing.
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Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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