beast fable

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as in allegory

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  1. allegory
  2. parable
  3. morality play
  4. bestiary
Noun
  • In the comment section for the film, on YouTube (where it has been watched by more than nine million people), someone noted the obvious allegory: a quesito without cheese; a Puerto Rico without Puerto Ricans.
    Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025
  • From the onset of Schauffele’s relationship with golf, motivational allegories and philosophical adages were fed into his psyche.
    Gabby Herzig, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of allegory
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  • The old transmissibility of truth presented in holy doctrine, tradition, parables, had decayed into near silence.
    Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • Elegant and spare, this is an environmental parable that doesn’t hammer away at its message.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of parable
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  • But the set, in which Dylan played the electric guitar and embraced rock ’n’ roll publicly, was more complicated than a morality play pitting backward folk purists against forward-looking rockers.
    Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Both saw foreign policy as a morality play pitting good against evil.
    Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of morality play
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  • 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
Definition of bestiary
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