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Recent Examples of exemplum
In 2013, the Italian playwright Stefano Massini turned this exemplum into The Lehman Trilogy, an epic five-hour play that was adapted and condensed last year by the director Sam Mendes and playwright Ben Power for the National Theatre in London.
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Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2019
Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exemplum
Noun
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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
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Elegant and spare, this is an environmental parable that doesn’t hammer away at its message.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
4 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Loading your audio article There’s an old fable about a frog in a boiling pot of water.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2025
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The Brutalist is a Fitzcarraldo fable of artistic endeavor, a universal immigrant tale and a searing indictment of capitalism Jones plays opposite Brody as Tóth’s wife, Erzsébet, in an indelible portrait of a woman physically broken by war who remains resolutely unbroken in spirit.—
Wendell Steavenson,
Vogue,
5 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Written in first person and full of anecdotes, this book is a nice, modern complement to the historical books on this list.—
Will McGough,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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The anecdote goes back nearly 45 years, when Felder was tackling Russian master Sergei Rachmaninoff’s other-worldly piano compositions in a young student’s program at Montreal’s McGill University.—
David John Chávez,
The Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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However, now the scandal has spread out of Britain to U.S. staff and American publications, the pro-Meghan narrative no longer contains a baked in explanation for the existence of the anti-Meghan perspective.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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Draft one, sign one, trade for one but this same narrative comes up every year, this franchise seems incapable of understanding the importance of having one.—
Jonas Siegel,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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