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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
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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
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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
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Both saw foreign policy as a morality play pitting good against evil.—
Jason Fields,
Newsweek,
5 Dec. 2024
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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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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
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“Beast fable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beast%20fable. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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