bestiary

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Recent Examples of bestiary 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 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
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Noun
  • Discerning viewers flock to the Greek filmmaker’s parables about family dynamics and power struggles to marinate in his deadpan humor, his aloof and somewhat anthropological look at human behavior, and the sight of Emma Stone inevitably doing something odd.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • These parables sometimes read like gibberish, talking both down and up to the reader.
    Book Marks October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Though often seen as an allegory for the AIDS crisis, in the context of the MOAD show the piece can take on a different interpretation.
    Douglas Markowitz, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The book also ties Pennywise’s origins to Derry’s original Native American population in a colonial allegory.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Will there be fables about musical sand dunes on Mars?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a whole other movie happening within Good Fortune‘s attempt to Aesop-fable its way to some moral about a modest life being a more fulfilling one even if you’re forced to live in your car.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Allowing two goals on nine shots against a team outside of the playoff picture won’t help change that narrative.
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Traditional narratives obscure the role slavery might have played in Texas’ drive for independence and portray the Alamo’s defenders as freedom fighters.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025

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