beast fable

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as in allegory

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  1. allegory
  2. parable
  3. morality play
  4. bestiary
Noun
  • Scarpa also wrote Scott’s J. Paul Getty fictionalization All the Money in the World, Napoleon, and the military-power allegory The Last Castle, but timely political coincidences sustain this otherwise hoary tale.
    Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 2024
  • But Frank Herbert’s epically imaginative sci-fi allegory wasn’t the sole source to give the character shape.
    Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of allegory
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  • Some people come to listen, some to vent, some to mull the parables through fogs of addiction or mental illness.
    Moriah Ratner, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Even absent conscious efforts to use them strategically, parables in pop culture can inform how audiences think about real-world politics—often in ways that authors don’t necessarily intend.
    Charli Carpenter, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2019
Definition of parable
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  • Both saw foreign policy as a morality play pitting good against evil.
    Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The Tudor drama morphs into a morality play via Sir Thomas More, beheaded by Henry in 1535 for refusing to recognize him as supreme head of the Church of England.
    Elle Carroll, Vulture, 18 June 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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