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Recent Examples of bestiaryTheir 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
But Machete is also a still-timely political allegory about a monstrous conspiracy targeting Mexican immigrants.
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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.
Allusions to myths, fables, and riffs on common idioms abound, many of them evocative and quite funny.
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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.
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