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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beast fable
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Trains that are promised to get to this destination are an allegory of a system.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Feb. 2025 -
In that sense, Cronenberg’s films are eerily prescient allegories of our present-day techverse and proselytizing profiteers like Sam Altman and Elon Musk.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Dec. 2024
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Bathed in a pink-pop glow, its pastiche of romance and horror collide in a viciously mischievous parable of technology and control that speaks to these most anxious times.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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From Timothy Snyder’s chilling parables of fascism abroad to Heather Cox Richardson’s portraits of extremism at home, our leading professional historians have played no small part in entrenching this sequence as the fundamental narrative of our time.—
Matthew Karp,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Dec. 2024
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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
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What Nafisi does best, and the reason her work has endured, is precisely to refuse cartoonish portrayals and basic morality plays.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2025
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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
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In the bestiary, the animals representing the sins were related to animals that existed.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2024
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