Five years ago it was an apocryphal story but I'm afraid today it's a parable.
It would be possible I'm sure it has been attempted to read "The Stranger" as a parable of impending upheaval in Algeria.
"A Message to Garcia" is a parable of heroic initiative and duty, very loosely based on events during the Spanish-American War of 1898.
That the gold turned out to be illusory made the saga seem even more of a parable about the consequences of unbridled greed.
The Rt Rev Nicholas Reade will compare her visit to "a parable of hope at times of national and international crises" in his Easter Sunday sermon.
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So, how is this a parable of America today?
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The Saint-Jean lawsuit reads like a parable of the mortgage meltdown, complete with unsophisticated homeowners, avaricious bankers, and a mortgage that looks like it was designed to blow up from the beginning.
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The troubles at Kabul Bank stand as a parable for the sometimes malign effect that the influx of billions of dollars has had on this impoverished country since the current war began, in 2001.
In some of this week's coverage, the life of this one individual has seemed to serve as a parable for the progress of the country over the last two decades, or the lack of it.
In the book, which is told via a parable, the management team at a janitorial company suffering from high turnover and low employee engagement turned its fortunes around by finding ways to listen better to their employees and help them lead the lives they want to.
With that idea in mind, I recommend two books about the essential role of price in capitalism: Lessons from a Road Warrior: How I fell off a horse, earned 15 million air miles, got sand in my shoes and learned how to invest by John Rutledge and The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity by Russell Roberts.
It tells the Hanukkah story as a Zionist parable with a typical Guthriec(ph) little guy slant.
The narrative unfolds in a solemn, glum, stately manner more like a Biblical parable than like a crazy backwoods folktale.
Lest you scoff at my predilection for elementary-level reading (the book is rated for ages four to eight), I beg you to look past the pastel illustrations and sing-songy cadence of the writing and see this book for what it is: a beautiful script about parenthood, a poignant parable about life and death, a testimony to when the roles of child and parent become blurry.
One was iconography a scholarly approach that treated the standard Renaissance or 17th-century art work as a learned parable or visual puzzle.
There is something fundamental about the Once-ler and the ruin caused by his blinkered endeavor, something beyond a mere parable of environmental degradation.
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We are meant to see this as a solemn parable of belief of its capacity both to grow without rational evidence and to fester without cause.
As the story of Clementi has become a popular parable of teen-age good and evil, that yellow-toned photograph has become an icon of adolescent distress.
"A Tale of Music" draws on this history to tell a disturbing parable about an artist's willing self-abnegation in the service of the Great Leader.
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He combined contemporaneous political issues with elements from a Chinese parable and the story of the judgment of Solomon, in which two women claim the same child.
His play, The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble, managed to explain the boom and bust in credit derivatives leading up to the financial crisis of 2008-09, all with the help of a crazy parable involving goats.
Very much a work of art rather than of history, this beautifully written novel edges towards saying something profound about the relationships between art and life, men and women, the powerful and the disempowered, without ever becoming a simplistic parable.
In this parable a mischievous boy breaks a shopkeeper's window.
His early training as an icon painter in Greece, his subsequent study in Renaissance Venice and Rome, and his efforts, after arriving in Spain in 1577, to attract prominent patrons, all figure in El Greco's canvas, where both Eastern and Western traditions combine to transform his memorial into a cogent contemporary parable.
The resurrection of this ironic parable serves as a chilling reminder of the valiant spirits lost in the unthinkable human destruction of the Holocaust.
Yeah, one game that comes to mind is a very strange mod, called The Stanley Parable.
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In his parable, prisoners are chained in a cave and only perceive the world as shadows on the wall.
Rebuilding is expected to provide a major boost to GDP, though pace the parable of the broken window, the statistics may mask the economic damage.
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Ms Showalter does not attempt to unravel the intractable moral and legal conundrums raised by this unsettling parable, but she uses it as a metaphor to ask questions about literary judgment.
It's a psychodrama with the epic scale of an Old Testament parable.
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