beast fable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beast fable
Noun
  • The eerie suitors and tense courtships throughout her art are allegories for her own jinxed marriages.
    Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Ant biology and behavior have long inspired science projects and allegories.
    Barbara Robertson, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Absurd parables like this one have been taken seriously by some of the loudest voices in Silicon Valley, many of whom are now warning that AI is an existential risk, more dangerous than nuclear weapons.
    Bryan Walsh, Vox, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Jameson seeks accounts of its daily life instead of parables of repression, and finds them in long novels by Günter Grass and Uwe Tellkamp.
    Mark Greif, Harper's Magazine, 26 July 2024
Noun
  • In Elia Kazan's still-explosive working-class morality play about a palooka-turned-longshoreman who stands up to union-boss corruption on the docks, Brando is both hypnotic and heartbreakingly human.
    EW.com, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
  • In recent years, several of the slender towers on Billionaires’ Row have been afflicted with excessive swaying and creaking, problems that are gleefully treated in the press as morality plays about rising inequality.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Kratos and his son Atreus traverse the nine realms, dig up old traumas, and stand off against a whole bestiary’s worth of gargantuan, flesh-eating monsters.
    Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
  • 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
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“Beast fable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beast%20fable. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.

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