bestiary

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Recent Examples of bestiary Their violence — in medieval bestiaries, unicorns are regularly said to have beef with elephants and take them down by goring their bellies — is contrasted with their gentleness towards maidens and innate understanding of purity. Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 28 Mar. 2025 Our 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 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
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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
  • 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
  • Allusions to myths, fables, and riffs on common idioms abound, many of them evocative and quite funny.
    Lora Kelley, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2025
  • As three people with remote connections to a house try to solve two brutal murders, the story becomes increasingly complicated and implausible, evolving into a fable about a cursed family.
    Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • In this role, Claire will guide our day-to-day assignments, from quick turn reporting to longform narrative features to live events coverage.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 12 Aug. 2025
  • In one study, psychologist Jonathan Adler followed a group of adults who wrote narratives about themselves over a period of 12 psychotherapy sessions.
    J. David Creswell, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2025

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