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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.
Over the past 20 years of Black List darlings and Edgar Wright rip-offs, the American film industry has established a new archetype of cinema filled with quippy antiheroes, gory allegories for domestic strife, and character actors rattling off reference humor.
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Sam Bodrojan,
IndieWire,
11 Sep. 2025
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.
Lawrence is sparing in his style, the image desaturated like a vintage photograph, locating this fable in an unspecified future and past.
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Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
11 Sep. 2025
The Last Viking, the latest collaboration between Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen and his longtime muses Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, is a wild, darkly comic fable about brotherhood, identity and the limits of sanity.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
Technology and Amplification Modern technology, including artificial intelligence and coordinated activity across social media platforms, allows adversaries to rapidly spread false narratives.
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Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
The series is directed by Takimoto Tomoyuki, known for socially conscious narratives, alongside Ohba Norichika.
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