Butler is also known for her two Parable novels, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents.
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His parable jauntily turns away from the overemphatic legibility of parable.
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While Mark Russell, the festival's director, said he doesn't program according to a theme, he mentioned the show "Parable of the Sower," based on the Butler novels "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents," as emblematic of the lineup.
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The 'Parable of the Pearl of Great Price' This parable describes a man who sells everything in order to obtain his prized pearl.
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"The Neighbors' Window," directed by Marshall Curry, is a stale voyeurism parable, but Yves Piat's "Nefta Football Club" is a deft antidrug parable.
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Fortunately, there's a pair of new editions of Parable of the Talents and Parable of the Sower from Seven Stories Press which look stunning.
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" For Kamensky, the painting represents "a parable of redemption.
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"The story is a parable of sorts; it's a parable of how the unthinkable comes to happen," said Jason Osder, the director of Let the Fire Burn, a documentary about the bombing.
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Parable of the Talents / Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler If you've never read Octavia Butler, you should stop what you're doing and go read a bunch of her books right now.
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In later work, he used the bet as a parable.
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It is a parable of the mess Nepal is in.
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There is nothing of the parable in these two books.
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Clementa C. Pinckney, were studying the parable of the sower.
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The word parable comes from the Greek word meaning comparison.
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The religious can just approach it as an extended parable.
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" There's an old parable popular among conservatives called "Chesterton's fence.
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"It rarely snows in Jerusalem," as Schneider's lovely parable notes.
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The parable is about selflessness, but it isn't just that.
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It is, I suppose, a parable for the power of words and the selfish impulse of art, though I'm not sure it can qualify as parable when the characters tell you that repeatedly and overtly.
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That it comes so late is a parable of her limitations.
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It is a dreamy, surreal parable set in Slab City, Calif.
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Octavia Butler's Parable series imagines a racist theocracy much like Gilead.
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But the parable has always been … shaky, to say the least.
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"The Handmaid's Tale" is a parable of women being systematically controlled.
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In the parable of status seltzers, LaCroix is the processed past.
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He reminds people of the ending of a well-known parable.
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Hosting the game Argentina could not manage offered a powerful parable.
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The series could be more of a party than a parable.
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As a parable, it suggests that vastness is relative, prioritizing wonder.
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The anecdote became something of a family parable in later decades.
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It is instead a parable about the nihilism underlying such invitations.
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A lot of you probably thought of PARABLE as a gimme.
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In the course of the interview, Mr. Muggeridge used a parable.
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The 'Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard' This parable tells the story of a series of workers who come in at different points of the day, but the owner pays them all the same amount.
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You can learn a lot from the parable of "Salvator Mundi," Aries.
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But the lesson it teaches comes as a parable, not an algorithm.
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It embraces the fluidity of the parable rather than haphazardly applying it.
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Yet, as the author makes starkly clear, global warming is no parable.
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Five years ago, The Stanley Parable released on Steam and blew minds.
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In many ways, his story is a more potent parable than Mbappé's.
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It's unfortunate that Bertolt Brecht's 1941 parable on fascism always feels relevant.
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At the same time, it's a TV show and it's a parable.
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The less you know about "The Stanley Parable" going in, the better.
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Here are four examples of Jesus' teachings that everybody gets wrong: The 'Parable of the Prodigal Son' This parable is usually seen as a story of how our "Father in heaven" loves us regardless of how despicable our actions.
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The whole film plays out like a long parable based on Kipling's poem.
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Aesop's fable, The Frogs Who Desired a King, is a parable of discontent.
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It became a parable for the economy's excesses and over-reliance on debt.
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All of which makes Morgan Stanley's overtaking manoeuvre a parable for the industry.
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There's a raucous, near-unbelievable parable about the American dream somewhere in there.
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In a well-known parable, a group of blind men encounters an elephant.
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Superficially, Cruz's life seems one long parable about the value of insider connections.
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Unanchored from the world that helped birth it, the play becomes a parable.
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Once, storytelling was a shared experience, with emphasis on proverb, parable and myth.
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All that remains is a parable of a woman who is not believed.
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" Each morning he reads the daily spiritual parable from "The Book of Awakening.
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In that fierce little feliform, a parable of my own people's epic struggles.
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The parable is simple: Like lust, politics often is blind to looming dangers.
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It was an intense, almost hallucinatory parable of utter vulnerability and desperate compromise.
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It's a fitting but unfortunate parable in an era of rampant economic inequality.
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Rory, meanwhile, is a walking parable of class and inheritance in modern America.
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Here's Brian Trent with a parable about human nature and the end. Enjoy.
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It's a spy story, a love story, and something of a moral parable.
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Some observers say readers might embrace it as a lighthearted but inspiring empowerment parable.
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What if the parable challenges us to determine our own pearl of great price?
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The pair plans to reenact the Gospel parable, forcing the King out of hiding.
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It's a convincing Marxist parable told through the limited vernacular of the Ashcan School.
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Ed's idyll must end, and an epilogue sets out the history behind this parable.
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It's a terrifying parable about the future of all people, Indian and white alike.
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If you're up on your Prodigal Son parable, you know that CALF was served.
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THIS WEEK, Binyamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, provides a parable of modern populism.
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But to modern readers, other aspects of Zamyatin's multifarious parable will seem more relevant.
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He liked to remind his fellow citizens of the parable of the Good Samaritan.
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Mohamed's ascent is a parable of the promise and possibility of America's refugee program.
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I really got into Parable of the Sower and the Seed to Harvest series.
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The result was a surprisingly stage-worthy parable of totalitarian oppression and spiritual resistance.
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In response, Diamond weakly offers a parable about bird-watching in the Middle East.
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And, yes, "The Lehman Trilogy" could be described as a religious parable of reckoning.
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It's a parable about God's search for connection between the divine and the everyday.
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Or is it, as Matt and Michael would suggest, another parable for their gospel?
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A confrontation with the "rock" of the title (and Rick's windy parable) is inevitable.
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In March this newspaper described Mr Netanyahu's tenure as a parable of modern populism.
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Tori Sampson makes her Playwrights Horizons debut with a parable of blackness and beauty.
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Spare yet complex, the work is a wholly original parable on the danger of greed.
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Our parable is less about forgiving and more about counting, and making sure everyone counts.
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But, unless we know the biblical and historical sources, again we will mishear the parable.
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I decide that I'm voting in favor of Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.
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In this telling, her life becomes a parable of sex and power, pain and revenge.
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It almost becomes a parable or a fable, so we started going in that direction.
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Computer games, such as The Stanley Parable and Papa Sangre, also reportedly influenced the project.
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A parable delivered by Alemu is long enough to interrupt the flow of the narrative.
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Pope told the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector, a choice widely seen
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The Parable of the Sadhu was cathartic for Madoff; he emailed me about it repeatedly.
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But this is not really a parable of black against white, or red against blue.
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No, we aren't recounting some sort of bovine-related parable from the creameries of yore.
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"I have a feeling that Kingdomality was the end of the parable trend," she said.
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A parable of incarceration, physical and otherwise, and eventual redemption, the piece stars Hiran Abeysekera.
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Like the snake in his favorite parable, Mr. Trump cannot rise above his fundamental nature.
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It's part ghost story and part natural history lesson, part romance and part feminist parable.
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Jesus once told a similar and infinitely morally superior parable in the book of Luke.
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The authorities' effort to now muzzle the public's outrage is a parable of government unaccountability.
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I now find more comfort in there being no grand parable awaiting to be deciphered.
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She recounts a joke, or more of a parable, about God sending superheroes to hell.
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Hamilton's fate can be taken as a parable of the vagaries of the cultural marketplace.
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The work succeeds both visually and as a sort of parable about distance and perspective.
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It is a perfect parable, emphasizing group identity and clearly identifying the corrupting, diseased, dangerous Other.
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Rather, Han's glorious treatments of agency, personal choice, submission and subversion find form in the parable.
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"BOOK CLUB", a new film, is a parable about the virtues of reading in old age.
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Is this a parable calling for bipartisan coalitions, for separating the reasonable opponents from the villains?
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Instead of resolving Barlow's apparent contradictions, the book lays them out in nearly parable-like fashion.
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And it shows up in The Martian Chronicles as an illusion and a parable about nostalgia.
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But his trajectory over the past six years is a kind of parable for American centrism.
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With its clear environmental parable, The Rain could have been a new Stalker for our time.
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It is the Kafka of the cage that went seeking a bird, in his tiny parable.
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I think the last game that really made me laugh out loud was The Stanley Parable.
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Her sculpture is the visual equivalent of a Franz Kafka parable or a Samuel Beckett play.
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That's an applicable parable for the ending of the series, too (if you know, you know).
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I have yet to finish "Parable of the Sower," by Octavia Butler, an incredibly overdue read.
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The film is a parable of modern manufacturing, showing the strengths and weaknesses of each country.
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"We had this idea several years ago, about a dystopian tech behemoth called Parable," Kaelan explained.
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James Martin, a Jesuit author and editor at America magazine, cited the parable of the Good Samaritan.
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Jesus' first listeners heard not a parable about salvation in the afterlife but about economics in present.
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Pastor told the parable of the ten brides who all fell asleep and missed their wedding day.
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The island in this parable is home to unusually tall cacao trees, hungry people, and little else.
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Although manifestly a parable of Han Chinese resistance to foreign humiliation, the story does not demonise outsiders.
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Or was it more of a parable about human ambition, our inability to control the environment, etc.
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In the Biblical parable of the talents, a master entrusts his wealth to a range of servants.
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His mix of cartoonish characters with intense action brings a simplicity to these clean, near-parable stories.
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And that, it seems will be the parable many of the characters in this season will face.
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But now, just like The Handmaid's Tale, it plays as a grisly parable about very active tensions.
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The backfiring of this attack might be read as a parable for the troubles facing the BJP.
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The old house was gone, Yan said, but the story of its destruction was an instructive parable.
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And his story is becoming a modern parable about the dangers of hubris and limits of fakery.
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I snail mailed him the Parable of the Sadhu article, which he received about a week later.
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As the Speenhamland system took hold and spread across England, it turned into a parable of caution.
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She nibbled a celery stick, sipped tea and offered a parable that reflected her approach to music.
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Oh, and a thoroughly annoying Minstrel kept interrupting everyone with his lute and his parable-like ditties.
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Portrayed by Phillip James Brannon, he has the serenity and parable-driven speech of a Christian martyr.
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Both books make it clear that what's happening in Flint is not an aberration or a parable.
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Like virtually all of Pixar's movies, it's a parable about the joys and struggles of family life.
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For the first time he plays with parable — and what an exciting departure it might have been.
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"The Unknown Girl" is as tense as a police procedural, and as mysterious as a religious parable.
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"Sweet Land," in a Los Angeles park, is a parable for our time about Hosts and Arrivals.
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According to Govan, the sculpture functions as a parable of Heizer's two primary disciplines, painting and sculpture.
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Indeed, this parable of class warfare is so thematically airtight that it's almost resistant to creative interpretation.
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" White Lotus " (1965) is a civil-rights parable in which white Americans become slaves of the Chinese.
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But it's also an affecting little parable about social change, the importance of art, and emotional repression.
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The 'Parable of the Good Samaritan' Our usual understanding of this famous story goes astray in several ways.
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Just one chapter before our parable, Jesus seeks lodging in a Samaritan village, but they refuse him hospitality.
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The parable of the Good Samaritan is Jesus' timeless lesson on who our neighbor is: anyone in need .
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Luke prefaces our parable with two shorter ones: the Parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin.
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In this way, Bonner residents' relationship to the mine is a parable for the bitcoin boom at large.
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"Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" is a parable about young female artists fighting for control over their lives.
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Politics are a major through-line in this loose parable of jaded men attempting to recapture their innocence.
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Every few chapters focuses on their lives, and each of these sections resolves into a kind of parable.
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In many ways, the film can be interpreted as a parable of the Chinese government's idea of multilateralism.
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Handmaid's Tale, then, is not so much a parable or a warning as a projection based on history.
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The supremacy of King of Pops is also a parable of trends in consumerism and in urban living.
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"Sweet Land" is a parable of, and fantasia on, Manifest Destiny, performed outdoors at a richly suggestive site.
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Lopetegui has become a parable on the perils of ambition, a case study of the dangers of hubris.
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While Kiernan is all about complexity, other kinds of horror writing succeed because of their parable-like simplicity.
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Carnival Row appears to be a fantasy-infused, melodramatic parable about prejudice and oppression... just with magical creatures.
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DOWNSIZING Alexander Payne (working with his frequent screenwriting partner Jim Taylor) directs a parable for cash-strapped times.
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He recounted the Parable of the Talents, a story Jesus tells in the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 25.
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" And the implications of these prospective policies are replaced with "a parable about who is superior to who.
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To American policymakers, Iran became a parable about the political perils in the fall of a friendly strongman.
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The Stanley Parable or Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald are extremely well-crafted jokes.
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Maybe there's a parable here about the crass end to empire, or maybe the trite is just trite.
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Yet more will need to be done if the Samaritans are to remain more than a half-remembered parable.
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Father-and-son parable God of War, meanwhile, showed more of the frenetic combat and some massive-scale monsters.
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While many recommend beginning with her 1979 story, Kindred, it's Parable of the Talents that's on everyone's radar now.
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The Duke of Cambridge delivers the second reading – from Luke 10:29-37 – the Parable of the Good Samaritan.
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Drawing on the Parable of the Good Samaritan, the Pope noted that two men walked by the injured man.
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It's about eight people who exchange sensory capabilities — somewhere in this premise, there is a parable about global empathy.
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The first half of Truth and Lies presents their story as a parable of spoiled rich kids gone bad.
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The upshots of adopting such an absolutist facade can be strung together into a fateful parable of sunk costs.
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And as a twenty-first–century parable of the workplace, it naturally involved Donald Trump spouting off on Twitter.
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Theranos is a parable about who gets what and about what certain kinds of people can get away with.
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It's a parable to our own world, infested with the kind of speculative details that Peper is known for.
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No less than Mr. Cuarón's "Gravity," another technological tour de force, "Children of Men" is an evident religious parable.
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The story could be seen as an early parable for the industry over all: Eventually the truth will out.
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In many ways, Mr. Gilliam's own life story could be a parable for his hometown's struggles, successes and aspirations.
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I'd love to see Octavia E. Butler's novel PARABLE OF THE SOWER read in more high school English classes.
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The drama is not an overt comment on the current political moment, but it is a kind of parable.
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His famous "War of the Worlds," about a Martian colonization of England, was a caustic parable denouncing European empires.
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"Honeyland's" gentle eco-parable, with Hatidze the stand in for Mother Nature herself, is simply structured but rings loud.
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But, in this little parable of marital give-and-take, the last word is very much hers to give.
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This 2017 horror parable is well written and directed by Jordan Peele, announcing the emergence of a major filmmaker.
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"The Stanley Parable" lets you break the rules in ways other games don't, and it's worth seeing for yourself.
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But in Pettibon's work — versus, say, George Orwell or Margaret Atwood — it's not a parable or a possible future scenario.
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It's an evocation of, and parable for, the strength and tenancy of the white working class that's been left behind.
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The ice cream guy getting beaten by the personal trainer would have been a great parable for the Crossfit era.
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Is this an Obama-era parable, Hollywood recycling, a sign of the times or a change in mood or meds?
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The second novel in the series, Parable of the Talents, will get a new edition later this year as well.
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The new episodes feel like an obnoxious, ham-fisted parable about what happens when kids are told they're singularly special.
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And I -- I read that parable and there was a line in it that became just a lifeline for me.
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Sometimes this evolves into the outright theocracy of books like The Handmaid's Tale and Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents.
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But Mr. Chávez's parable is also a cautionary tale about voters' vulnerability to the spell of charisma and media banality.
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Kurtz-Phelan's detailed account of the diplomatic mission's failure reads like a parable of America's evangelizing idealism and paternalistic hubris.
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But beneath its mild staginess and intermittent mania lies a cynical, piercing parable about China's past and perhaps its present.
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The parable of our time might well be: Mind your young, or they will trouble you in your old age.
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And so the parable of our times may really be: Mind your daughters, or your future will come to ruin.
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A parable has many advantages over a screed or a sermon (or, it must be said, an op-ed column).
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Because it is mostly written as parable, Camus's Spanish town could just as easily stand in for Poland or Hungary.
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Both are to do with Eastern religions, Buddhism and Taoism (the painting above is an illustration of a Taoist parable).
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If it is not a parallel, then perhaps it serves as a parable, an example from which P.S.G. might learn.
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One could conceivably craft a Capra-esque, scrappy-underdog crowd-pleaser here, or a parable on the excesses of capitalism.
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The entire premise — making the newspaper some sort of parable or metaphor for the city as a whole — is misguided.
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U.S.C. has, of course, been Exhibit A in the college admissions scandal, that squalid parable of a status-obsessed age.
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Set in a preindustrial, agrarian world, the play charts a relationship that suggests a biblical parable rewritten by Thomas Hardy.
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A parable about the interplay between the organized narratives of stories and the multilayered data and process that is science.
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Right at the crossroads came "Doubt: A Parable" (2004) — a hit that might have made our list but somehow didn't.
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But Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante weaves the legend into a broader parable about the generations-long fallout of a genocide.
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Set in the Victorian era, it's part ghost story and part natural history lesson, part romance and part feminist parable.
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These two docs' nuanced understanding of the effects of racism stand in sharp contrast to the absurd parable of Skin.
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As the lesson of his favorite parable goes, we knew damn well he was a snake when we took him in.
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This little parable is my new default response when somebody asks me if the iPad can really be your main computer.
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Among them was a 1963 poem called "The Snake," which Trump interpreted as a parable on the dangers of illegal immigration.
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Perhaps it's because, as your fishing parable suggests, you want people to learn a profitable trade, rather than rely on handouts.
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The book is a parable about leaving what's comfortable for something more, and pushing through the inevitable resistance on that journey.
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Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler, 1998Science fiction is a world dominated with by the works of white male authors.
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Distorting familiar tropes from beginning to end, "Found a Job" is an entrepreneurial success story presented as a self-help parable.
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What followed, WIRED contributor Mark Harris found, was a messy, real-life parable about tech startups and the modern American city.
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Next is Benjamin Dickinson's Creative Control, a paranoid tech parable set in near-future Brooklyn after augmented reality hits the mainstream.
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Most commentators have cited Sandman's standoff with a Native American veteran at the Lincoln Memorial as a parable about rushed judgment.
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Hadestown, the hit musical that reimagines the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as an anti-capitalist parable, has 14 Tony nominations.
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But he describes that experience the way he does nearly everything: as a parable of how Shkreli is always getting ahead.
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A laugh-track-scored retelling of the Parable of the Prodigal Son, The Ranch is set in the world of ranching.
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"Theft" is a bleak parable about Seth, a starving family man who has been jailed for stealing a loaf of bread.
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A few years ago, in fact, an evangelical writer named Lance Wallnau used that parable as the case for Donald Trump.
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In addition to societal unrest, Baker is heavily influenced by author Octavia Butler's Afrofuturist novels, most notably Parable of the Sower.
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Yet if the novel succeeds only intermittently as a parable, it's gripping as a story, especially when it leaves the Wall.
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The rise and fall of the Gupta brothers is so improbable that in Saharanpur their story is told like a parable.
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The book delivers a parable of self-acceptance, as well as recipes for sugar cookies — both the edible and ornamental varieties.
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Kamilla Benko's debut, "The Unicorn Quest," another first-in-series novel, sneaks a tribalism parable into a Narnia-esque story structure.
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A final nightcap turns into something far darker in a story that becomes a subtly comic murder mystery and feminist parable.
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Impossible. Yet the excuses for inaction in Bob Hicok's parable of environmental greed rapidly rise to a rousing chorus of denial.
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The competitive virtues of Athens are usually narrated in myth while the compassionate virtues of Jerusalem often get narrated in parable.
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How different is this from those who walked by the beaten and abandoned man in the parable of the good Samaritan?
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And about Alexander Payne's "Downsizing," a genial, barbed parable of consumerism, environmental crisis and social inequality disguised as a dystopian farce.
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In the Video Op-Ed above, I show how the parable is much more instructive when applied to Trump's political rise.
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This tragicomic novella is both a classic tale of wealth and moral ruin and a parable about capitalism and Indian society.
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"There's a parable in the Bible about a rich man who while he was alive had all good things," she says.
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The central parable of the modern Democratic Party is of the young prodigy who returns home to a scene of decline.
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There is a theological parable devised by the impeccably named English philosopher John Wisdom but often adapted and updated by others.
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He has just been listening to Thomas Jefferson deliver a rather dry version of the New Testament's parable of the talents.
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Critic's Notebook The science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler set her 1993 novel, "Parable of the Sower," in the year 2024.
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An effective, if unpleasant, psychological inquiry, the film loses its way when it tries to become a parable of penitence and grace.
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There were no working-class herds, driven mad by News of the World naming names, involved in the making of this parable.
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I flipped open the book, expecting to find a religious parable about manners—a tale that could get me interested in politeness.
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It's one of the most down-to-earth moments in a movie filled with whimsy, an effective parable for the millennial experience.
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Indeed, if we simply ask "where is Samaria today?" we can see the import of this parable for the Israeli/Palestinian crisis.
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In the parable of Stone Soup a wise man rolled into town on a wagon and started boiling a pot of water.
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But, by signalling that the files had spread, Boback had concocted a potent marketing parable: inadvertent file sharing could have dire consequences.
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It's a parable of our relationship with God and how we run away from him, but he still loves us so much.
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His thought experiment is easiest to understand when recast as an island parable (along lines suggested by Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University).
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The parable here concerned a misguided Facebook employee who leaked news of a soon-to-be-launched product to the tech press.
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If Turkey is a parable of easy money, its lessons cannot readily—or can no longer— be generally applied to emerging markets.
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Anna Cabe's beautiful tale—a science fictional parable about pain in one's own skin, adolescence, and about transformation—feels especially important now.
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Galicia's story has become a parable for immigration rights advocates who have condemned the actions of ICE and border patrol agents. 5.
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Their latest project is Beware of the Dandelions, a sci-fi parable that's part immersive art installation, part trip-hop puzzle game.
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It's a departure from the rhetoric that typically surrounds any mingling of jazz and state, a parable of democracy and American exceptionalism.
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It's closer to a coming-of-age story, or a parable about online identities and how they intersect with trauma and desire.
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The tendency to replace arguments with feelings makes one think of the tragic parable delivered by the Titanic, once Belfast's proudest export.
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The decade since the project's pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, mined the "genesis block" of bitcoins offers more than a parable of faddishness.
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For her, "Shrew" is a parable of discovery in which two misfits find, beneath the social construction of love, its natural contours.
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Many politicians would treat such a rags-to-riches tale as a parable about entrepreneurship, but for him it is more complicated.
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His primary mode of persuasion is the story, just as the primary mode of persuasion for the biblical Jesus is the parable.
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A parable trusts the story to do the work of conversion, and it trusts its listeners to do the work of interpretation.
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Was "Thrones," with its spectral White Walkers, heralded by extreme weather and threatening to end all life, a parable of climate change?
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He presents Linda Taylor not as a parable for anything grand, but as a singular American scoundrel who represented nothing but herself.
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If I wanted to explain his behavior with a story, I could weave a parable about how everyone's fighting an inner demon.
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The trilogy's final chapter, "The Eumenides," can, in fact, be read as a parable for the establishment of the Athenian judicial system.
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SEX EFFECTS In the infection-horror film tradition, "It Follows" was a macabre parable of a "supernatural S.T.D.," as one critic wrote.
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So begins the new feature from the Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden, a parable-like story about the workings of karma and destiny.
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"When the English Fall" is, slyly, a parable for climate change and for the horrifying threats it poses to the global order.
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When "The Leftovers" works best — wondrously, transportingly — it works beyond logic, through image and parable, like a kind of dirty-realist gospel.
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A parable about masculinity, the movie critiques the ideology that places a man's work above all else, including the people he loves.
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And nobody is better at recruiting than Sporting, as the parable of Cristiano Ronaldo demonstrates, because nobody else can call on Pereira.
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The practical byzantine fault tolerance algorithm (PBFT) was designed as a solution to a problem presented in the form of a fun parable.
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The account of a veterinary student's dramatic metamorphosis from a soft-spoken brainiac into a voracious arm-biter is rich with parable potential.
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Former President Bill Clinton weaved a parable of Clinton's work for children, the sick and the disabled into the story of their relationship.
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The model for the sixth room, "The Bastards (parable) — God is my right," is both one of the richest and the most troubling.
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The story of the Melungeons is at once a footnote to the history of race in America and a timely parable of it.
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In response to the information barrage so defining of contemporary culture, she referenced Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 parable of the emperor's new clothes.
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In other words, we would know basically nothing about it, since the tale is self-evidently not a historical account but a parable.
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"Parasite" is a darkly comic morality play, a parable about the dangers of the class divide and the way capitalism traps us all.
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Anna Cabe's beautiful tale—a science fictional parable about pain in one's own skin, adolescence, and about transformation—feels especially important now. Enjoy.
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For many, it has also become a modern parable for mass-manufactured music, peddled to an undiscerning public like an unsafe food additive.
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Parable of the Sower is one of my favorite books — that's Octavia Butler — and then Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde is another favorite.
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Although the parable dates back to ancient India, Hu sees it as an accurate reflection of our contemporary relationship to the virtual world.
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Guillermo del Toro's outcast parable, "The Shape of Water," was honored as best picture, and Mr. del Toro won the best director Oscar.
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On another level, it's also a parable about bigotry, propaganda, the rise of authoritarian regimes and the need, everywhere and always, for compassion.
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The only parable, I believe, is that Lil Wayne thinks "ho ho ho" is a good pun, and who are we to argue?
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Playing on a set of numerical coincidences, they cast the team members' ordeal and salvation as a parable about the country's political transition.
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Here, the image — a powerful black man quelling his emotion and struggling to present as calm, smaller, nonthreatening — has the strength of parable.
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Her adaptation of "Parable of the Sower" is deeply rooted in the African-American sacred music that might be called her family inheritance.
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The food seemed to multiply, as in the parable of the loaves and the fishes; however much I ate, I couldn't finish it.
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For me, the whole thing is an anxiety nightmare parable about our current state, and that's why it looks the way it looks.
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"Julius Caesar can be read as a warning parable to those who try to fight for democracy by undemocratic means," Mr. Eustis wrote.
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Then the V.R. thing started taking off, and we decided that Parable would be a V.R. company, and it became this meta-V.
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The parable-like "Dem" (1967) — which begins "Lemme tellya how dem folks live" — took an absurdist premise for its journey into race relations.
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Taken together, the stories create a parable of community, as children discover how to be a part of something larger without losing themselves.
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The story of how the authorities muzzled Dr. Li became an instant parable for their trampling on the Chinese public's right to know.
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A friend who is a scholar of Japanese Buddhism tells me the parable is about how enlightenment is not elsewhere; it's always here.
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"Dawn" was a wishful parable of decolonization and counterinsurgency, concerned with the competing but equally legitimate claims of two tribes occupying adjacent territory.
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Therein lies the crux of Parasite as a parable on class struggle: There is no rich without poor, and no poor without rich.
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The novel is essentially a parable about the power both of art, which abolishes the "border between earth and mind," and of women.
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He has returned with another parable about village life, written with breathtaking and deceptive simplicity, translated from the Tamil by N. Kalyan Raman.
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You've Got Mail, Christensen slyly suggests, was a parable about the benefits of corporate mergers written as a love letter from Warner Bros.
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The latest version, like the unfortunate 2000 live-action film starring Jim Carrey, pads out the parable with slapstick business and character enlargement.
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Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon's concert version, titled "Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower," is an unrepentantly political work of theater.
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Lembong likened Indonesia's growth story to the parable of the tortoise and the hare with the country representing the tortoise's slow but steady growth.
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It weaves a superb parable about Chinese pigs that were imported by Denmark about 150 years ago — long before China became an Asian superpower.
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We don't have enough of these alliance in real life, and if corny corporate television has to deliver us the parable, so be it.
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Turns out the HBO epic show featuring a powerful parable about climate change was never Game of Thrones and its threat of White Walkers.
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It's a parable about pride, the vanity of human wishes, the elusiveness of grace and, well, whatever the vaulted converse of all that is.
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Those so inclined to see a charged parable of white envy toward black success can do so, and everyone else remains none the wiser.
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When Mata and her mother saw each other for the first time, Adam said, it was like the biblical parable of the Prodigal Son.
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Wells uses the story as a parable about robotic bondage and freedom, and it's a fascinating, new take on the nature of artificial intelligence.
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Malcolm Gladwell, the Jesus of business books, highlights the parable of David & Goliath to make the key point: don't fight on other people's terms.
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We've seen that dynamic in action all month, as GOP presidential candidates trot out their favorite foreign policy anecdote: the Parable of the Hostages.
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What begins as a somewhat manic and sentimental comedy eventually morphs into a bitter and piercing parable about China's past and perhaps its present.
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Stop me if I have told this story — what I like to think of as the Parable of the Old Trafford Singing Section — before.
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Baker sees similarities between himself and Parable of the Sower's main protagonist, who is plagued by a "hyper empathy" disease, and fears mankind's future.
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Premiering this week, Andrea Mastrovito's NYsferatu is an adaptation of 1922 silent film as a parable about the immigrant experience made using rotoscope animation.
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"There is a parable-like aspect: a boy with a destiny, and a knife-edge personality, who won't tolerate anything but perfection," he said.
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Serving working stiffs from Staten Island, truck drivers from New Jersey, slicing smack through tony, litigious, brownstone Brooklyn, it is a modern American parable.
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The title track is an affectionate parable about a "rebel without a clue" named Eddie, who moves to L.A. and becomes a rock star.
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The novel may appear at first glance to be a facile "Wake up, yuppies!" parable, but it guides us with assurance toward thornier terrain.
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But The Stanley Parable feels inextricably linked to Half-Life 2 for one reason: the mod's original protagonist was "played" by Citizen Male 07.
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What's left is a fairly predictable parable about trading ethnic solidarity for career opportunities, climbing the network ladder on the brown backs of others.
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But her story functions as a parable: the tale of a woman who, in trying to save herself, erects the regime that ruins her.
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The video is a parable about privilege: He and his friends wear whiteface and are racially profiled by black employees of a car dealership.
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This theme was even more bald in the Korean original, which opens with an animated parable about a mother gouging out her own eyes.
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"I try not to spare myself to learn for my interest," said Shibata — a sentiment that restates a classic Eamesian Parable: Never delegate understanding.
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Then, in August, Walsh played kooky veterinarian Fiona Shively in the streaming giant's #realityhigh, a 90-minute parable about the perils of high school bullying.
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That's not to say that Harry Potter and the Anti-Fascist Parable doesn't have political undercurrents — but it's not the primary draw to her work.
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To illustrate that point, let's highlight a recent episode, which didn't get a ton of press but is nonetheless a perfect parable for our times.
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Behold a cutting parable for a generation that undersleeps and overworks to get underpaid—where paying your student loans is quite actually a waking nightmare.
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The way it fits childhood queerness into a squeaky-clean parable about difference is a commendable thing, and rare in this kind of blockbuster filmmaking.
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If that wasn't a tech industry parable in 2014, when the show debuted and when Uber first launched its carpooling service, it sure is now.
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His books include The New York Times bestseller Taking People With You, The Education of an Accidental CEO and his 2016 parable, O GREAT ONE!
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But in the parable, Crusoe is as dependent on the lone stranger, and his willingness to borrow and invest, as the stranger is on him.
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So that was a lesson to me that sort of said you cannot predict — Kafka: What does the watch parable tell you about virtual reality?
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Soon enough, Orwell's revived Homage to Catalonia would introduce the conflict to readers as a true-to-life anti-Communist parable for Cold War times.
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The story is based on Leo Tolstoy's God Sees the Truth But Waits, a short story that takes the form of a parable of forgiveness.
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Clinton discussed the influence of reading Henri Nouwen, a Catholic priest and noted spiritual writer, and his interpretation of the biblical parable the prodigal son.
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Colossal doesn't try to make perfect sense, opting instead to be a funny, smart parable about trying to wriggle loose of old relationships and ruts.
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Through her special insights, the OA offers the group a way forward: Instead of getting out, as in Plato's parable, this group must plunge in.
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It is a parable enshrining the hope that the journey to setting the world on a better course can begin with a single, unselfish act.
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The precipitous decline of the red knots that winter in West Africa may provide a small but telling parable of the perils of climate change.
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In their view, the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact was not a Dr. Seuss parable with funny characters in striped trousers and top hats.
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Yu answered with a parable from China's long history of imperial rule: "A very kind emperor may not be a very good one," he said.
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The book has been both celebrated for its striking, parable-like style and condemned for sloppy moral equivalency and a cavalier treatment of historical fact.
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Mr. Onyebuchi, who has a law degree from Columbia University, envisioned the story as a parable about corruption and inequality in the criminal justice system.
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And the struggle between Hades and Persephone naturally becomes a parable of climate change, in which the despoiling of the earth is akin to infidelity.
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As parable-based religion has receded from the public square, heroic myth, and the competitive virtues it celebrates, has rushed in to fill the space.
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They tend to see the line between good and evil as running between groups, not, as in parable, down the middle of every human heart.
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Maybe this popular parable will give you a feel for exponential growth: A kid wants to boost her allowance, and she proposes an unusual deal.
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Occasionally the songs' lyrics overlap, returning to insoluble obsessions; they wander among observation, parable, reminiscence and incantation, sometimes infusing the most commonplace sentiments with mystery.
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Want to read a parable about the cult of the Silicon Valley founder and the Softbank investors caught in the wake of his gilded robes?
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Not a predictable one, however, which is all to the benefit of this incisive, funny cinematic parable, shot and edited in a disarming, documentarylike style.
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It is also a parable of the twisted relations between Jews and Christians in Eastern Europe, with their mutual currents of desire, fear, and loathing.
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Less proof, more a parable about the risks of overexposure, about the danger of what happens when you have too much of a good thing.
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They only heard the racism and never the irony, and maybe that's as perfect a parable for how we got to now as anything else.
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Or Parable of the Polygons, a collaboration with YouTuber Vi Hart, using stats and academia to demonstrate how segregation and bias against the marginalized takes shape.
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Yet the transition from horse power to horsepower, a term coined by Eric Morris of Clemson University, South Carolina, is a useful parable for our time.
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As science fiction fans may have guessed, the Octavia Electrodes are named after Octavia Butler, author of groundbreaking novels like Kindred and Parable of the Sower.
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No doubt this episode is meant to be read as a sort of existential parable, but it never becomes more than a vividly drawn dream sequence.
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The new Netflix project is a painful parable about how creating commercial art leads to misery, despair, and the destruction of everyone and everything you love.
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It's not that unusual an occurrence, but it served as the perfect parable on quite how vigorously the camera manufacturers have self-copulated themselves into oblivion.
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As Rick observes in his somewhat improbable parable to Ezekiel, progress often comes at great personal cost, but that sacrifice is usually rewarded in the end.
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It's also a parable about a life well lived, which is how Gloria seems to take it when she returns to Minnesota and her real life.
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But decades later, the Pizza Connection saga arguably serves as a parable for how the application of justice en masse can spin wildly out of control.
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In its mysterious, unwitnessed state, "Eden" and its lost reality stars seemed to offer a stronger parable for these narcissistic end-times than anything deliberately conceived.
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But beginning with the piercing parable that opens the second act — about whether Judaism, Christianity or Islam is the true faith — the play grows increasingly engrossing.
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The game isn't flawless — Atlus struggles with problematic representation and restrictive views of gender — but it offers an interesting, if not bizarre, modern parable about relationships.
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Agape love is sacrificial love; think of Jesus's parable where the Good Samaritan saw an injured man and helped him without regard to race or religion.
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The little, lonely robot Wall-E stole our hearts, and his journey — a parable about ecology and the future of mankind — feels as urgent as ever.
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For a parable about wildness, Kellen Hatanaka's illustrations take an unlikely approach: They're elegant and midcentury modern, all bold, flat shapes, crisp edges and beautiful colors.
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"The Metamorphosis," Franz Kafka The paradox of this parable is that what it means to be human is only revealed by being transformed into monstrous vermin.
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At its heart, "Midnight Special" is a parable of parental love, a heartfelt look at the challenges involved in loving and possibly losing an extraordinary child.
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Despite the horror of its prescience, the stubborn optimism that burns at the core of "Parable of the Sower" helps me face our true-life horrors.
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More broadly, it's a parable of the American West in the 21st century and of how little we still can agree what it should look like.
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Unbearable heat is also the central motif of Catherynne M. Valente's story "The Sun in Exile," a parable that illustrates the absurdity of climate change denial.
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In A.L. Kennedy's brief, moving parable about a snake that comes to dinner and lingers for a lifetime, evil isn't an alien creature from another country.
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In that regard, the life and death of the Morandi Bridge is a parable of Italy's current economic and political mess, and how it got there.
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Here are a few of their answers: I'd love to see Octavia E. Butler's novel PARABLE OF THE SOWER read in more high school English classes.
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The inclusion of the yet unrealized Jio Institute in India's centers of educational excellence is a parable for the crisis of higher education policy in India.
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But as I watched him, a flustered Gump in the headlights, I saw a broader story, a dark parable of bets misplaced and souls under siege.
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Instead, his mind-bending highs and excruciating lows became the story of the race — the front-runner lost in the wilderness was a perfect ultrarunning parable.
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He was in the middle of telling a parable about a Jain monk from the sixth century B.C. when an administrator interrupted him and he guffawed.
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Mondtag, one of Germany's most exciting young directors, applies his Expressionism-inspired aesthetic to Brecht's parable about a morally repugnant poet at odds with bourgeois society.
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Mondtag, one of Germany's most exciting young directors, applies his Expressionism-inspired aesthetic to Brecht's parable about a morally repugnant poet at odds with bourgeois society.
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Warren, when asked about some Americans objecting to the morality of queer lives, responded with the parable in Matthew 25 about the sheep and the goats.
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It may serve — particularly now — as a parable of the lessons that can emerge from unfettered science, if we have the courage to let it unfold.
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He was handed a Bible and a worksheet about that Wednesday night's lesson, the parable of the sower, and took a seat next to the pastor.
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"Julius Caesar can be read as a warning parable to those who try to fight for democracy by undemocratic means," he writes on the Public's website.
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The piece is said to take inspiration from games like The Stanley Parable and Papa Sangre, especially in terms of exploring new ways to offer interactive fiction.
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The parable of Mr Tsipras's eventual capitulation—his radical government brought to heel by capital markets and an intransigent European Union—is seeping into the left's consciousness.
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And so the story that we have in the two Parable books is essentially the story of the founding of this religion by a young black woman.
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As a sort of parable, he told the audience that even record labels being decimated by piracy rebuffed Apple's initial efforts to sell individual songs through iTunes.
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It's also a comeback story, a coming-of-age story, a racial parable, and a murder mystery, with elements of true, confirmed events in the real world.
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In that sense, Annihilation the book doubles as a parable about climate change and the ways the human race is destroying the planet in cancerous, uncontrollable ways.
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The baby boom generation should carefully consider the parable of Joseph as they evaluate new proposals from Washington to feast during the last of the fat years.
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Such works are always on the verge of becoming scripture or parable, because they announce that to read is to comprehend, and to comprehend is to act.
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I keep watching it, not as a clear template for action, but as a parable about what can happen when a woman decides she is finally done.
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Equal parts morality play and cautionary parable, the material reads on one level as a corrective memo from its creators about the perils of losing one's way.
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Panoply, the podcasting company that produced "The Message" in partnership with General Electric this year and is releasing the techno-sci-fi parable "LifeAfter" on Sunday, Nov.
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When Pixar released Wall-E in 2008, it was described as an "environmentalist parable" so often that director Andrew Stanton felt the need to disavow the label.
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Ms. Wilcox has also recorded an oral version of the dictionary, including traditional Wukchumni stories like the "How We Got Our Hands" parable featured in the film.
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Ultimately, the dispute is something of a modern Solomonic parable, with two mothers — the tribe and the state — fighting over who has claim to Native American children.
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It had also become a fixture in classes about late 20th century architecture, a textbook example of Post-Modernism, parable of the star architect, catnip on Instagram.
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In "Dark Matter Messages," he combines poetry, video projections, music and improvisational movement, and turns Octavio Butler's unfinished manuscript, "Parable of the Trickster," into a live performance.lumberyard.
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It could be read as an environmental parable, or as a study of repression, or as a meditation on race, or as a mother's post-apocalyptic quest.
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Mr. Roof sat quietly, his head hung low, for about 40 minutes while the group considered the Gospel of Mark's account of the Parable of the Sower.
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For evangelicals agonizing over the choice, as a fourth-generation minister and civil rights advocate, I offer a modern retelling of a biblical parable about great compassion.
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Contact High Rating: 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲 Platforms: Mac, Windows Green: $9.99 The existential crisis: The less you know about Stanley Parable before playing, the better.
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It is tempting to conclude that the parable has a hopeful moral: populism has found its limits; the institutions of liberal democracy can stand up to it.
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While it would be comforting to dismiss this 1922 drama as a fascinating anachronism, O'Neill's nightmarish parable of alienation and class conflict still feels close to home.
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The unnamed narrator of this deadpan comic parable about greed and divisiveness is among the first settlers of a "Great Field" by the bend of a river.
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Every Korean has heard the parable of a miser named Jarin-gobi (which some suspect is a wordplay from putting together jul-in, or "salted," and gulbi).
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Carrier, a company that had planned to shutter its Indianapolis plant and move to Mexico, had been a parable of Trump's protectionist, anti-globalism, America-first stance.
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Eventually, the story becomes something else entirely, a haunting parable about trying to build another, better world out of what we desire, both from ourselves and others.
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It was a parable that Walker shared as a panelist for the "Women in the Media and Online Harassment" session, part of the SXSW Interactive Online Harassment Summit.
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If you're wondering what the Church of Satan could find appealing in this parable of people struggling under adverse conditions, an interview Gilmore gave to Gizmodo explains why.
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University of Illinois Press Octavia Butler, who died in 2006, was the author of such visionary science fiction novels as Kindred, The Parable of the Sower, and Dawn.
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In other words, email bombing is a perfect parable for 2017, a time in which we appear to be collectively losing faith in the promise of the internet.
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The parable is often seen as a story of how the oppressed minority -- immigrants, gay people, people on parole -- are "nice" and therefore we should check our prejudices.
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The tale of their divergent paths was like a politically incorrect parable, a lesson in what not to do if one wished to build a cooperative, functional family.
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Grippingly, he recounts the story of his life, in his telling a parable of unity in diversity—a moral he was still pushing 12 hard, disillusioning years later.
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The design team noted that they were inspired by video games such as The Stanley Parable and Papa Sangre, and authors such as Franz Kafka and Douglas Adams.
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The story of the Latitude Society is a parable of Bay Area tech culture genius and exuberance, and of the ways this culture can be fickle and fail.
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" The whole song definitely has this parable vibe, and ends with this perfect rallying cry: "I shall enjoy the fruits of my labor if I get freed today.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - The parable of the prodigal son tells the story of a young wastrel who squanders his inheritance only to beg forgiveness from a beneficent father.
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It's weird that Kristen Stewart, who — again — is famous because of her role in a Mormon marriage parable, is now an unvarnished truth-teller against the celebrity establishment.
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The aforementioned Wreden rose to prominence as an indie developer after the success of his narrative game The Stanley Parable, originally a Half-Life 2 mod, in 2011.
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In its favor: Bong's class parable about a family of scammers who work their way into a wealthy clan's good graces has become this year's foreign-language sensation.
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It comes from a parable in which a grandfather explains to his grandson that we all have a war inside each of us, the war of two wolves.
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Julio Quintana's "The Vessel" is a modest, but not maudlin, parable of hope about mustering the strength to vigorously plunge again into life's uncertainties after a devastating loss.
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The eponymous protagonist and his story about a televised mixed martial arts league functions as a parable about a society trying to assimilate an onslaught of foreign influence.
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The parable of the innocent candidate, who is hired as a patsy in the political ruckus and turns out, annoyingly, to possess a conscience, is a cinematic staple.
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"The Go-Between" works better as a requiem than as a parable of rebirth, but Mr. Crawford, newly anchoring a musical at age 74, delivers at every turn.
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Today, it doesn't feel like it's about anything in particular, so it's a perfect parable for a reality that's often hard to believe, and even harder to accept.
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"Parsifal" can persuasively be a parable of ecological disaster, of tormented nationhood, of — as in the Metropolitan Opera's far more interesting production — the great rift between the sexes.
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The hosts of the first two seasons, fitfully struggling toward consciousness between occupational assaults and killings, were always stand-ins in a parable about free will and enslavement.
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It was pretty easy to cast the story as a parable about journalism, and I think that helps explain the heat of the coverage that fell on him.
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The novel can't seem to decide whether this episode is a parable or a revenge fantasy, revealing something that runs much deeper and darker than mere extramarital passion.
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My bad, although it does remind me of that parable about the blind men trying to describe an elephant based only on the part they had contact with.
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When the first "Jurassic Park" movie (based on a novel by Michael Crichton) opened in 1993, it was both a parable and an example of extravagant human ambition.
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A narrative game in the rough vein of A Stanley Parable, it's a funny exploration of theatricality in games, with a wry narrator and some clever surreal touches.
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Beyoncé was an obvious choice to be cast in an anointed blockbuster: the 25th-anniversary update of "The Lion King," the 1994 animated Disney parable set in Africa.
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Strava is not trying to be the Edward Snowden of the app world, but they have made their way into being the latest parable for the privacy-conscious.
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The change in direction—from #MeToo parable to study of a dysfunctional writer and his milieu—makes this a different sort of story, but not a lesser one.
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As a sort of parable, he told the audience that even record labels being decimated by piracy in 2003 rebuffed Apple's initial efforts to sell individual songs through iTunes.
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The parable is sometimes read with an anti-Jewish lens, so that the first-hired are the "Jews" who resent the gentiles or the sinners entering into God's vineyard.
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In parable terms, it's like having a hole in the dike, and instead of using his finger to stop it up, the little Dutch boy has left for college.
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Audiences learnt to revel in the dramatic moment, rather than trying to read the play as a parable—a tendency that is mocked at the close of "Nice Fish".
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It reads like a parable for our modern era: That the powerful and the well-meaning must too face the dusk of innovation—all progress comes at a cost.
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Or for something equally "risk"-free but a lot more inventive, try The Stanley Parable, a darkly humorous game of fourth-wall breaking exploration, which can take multiple paths.
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And I read a, um, a treatment of the prodigal son parable by the Jesuit Henri Nouwen, who I think is a magnificent writer of spiritual and theological concerns.
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Along with the success of walking simulator story-based games like The Stanley Parable and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, ADAM further bridges the gap between cinema and gaming.
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Instead, Jews connected with their past through parable and ritual, story and symbol, ways of remembering that are generally at odds with the methods and conclusions of modern historians.
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Two days later, the Soviet Writers Union released "a parable of a snake that crawled out of its 'dungwaters' to threaten a high-flying, proud eagle," the Times reported.
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So "Go Getters" makes for an interesting parable in the current political climate, especially because much of it focuses on Maggie, who knows firsthand how terrible Negan can be.
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Books of The Times In a famous Hindu parable, three blind men encounter an elephant for the first time and try to describe it, each touching a different part.
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But if you have seen "Snowpiercer," a parable of global inequality set aboard a high-speed train, you know that Mr. Bong juggles delight and didacticism with exquisite grace.
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The Parable of the Lost Sheep tells the story of a shepherd who still has 99 sheep in his flock, but looks for the one sheep that is lost.
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But they are also fantastical, a blend of satire, science fiction and parable, the point of which is to change our view of reality by inflating it to surreality.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Crossing from Syria into Lebanon on Tuesday night proved to be a parable for the diametrically opposed ways the world sees the election of Donald J. Trump.
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The book's hectic, slapstick invention impresses but also threatens to outstay its welcome, and Waldemar's predicament seems more and more like a madcap parable about the act of writing.
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Earlier on, she was more confrontational in her approach: her 1976 filmed opera, "Quarry," which recently returned to circulation, is a brutal parable of a totalitarian society in formation.
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At such times, The B-Side starts to feel like a parable about the cycles of life and obsolescence, the speeding up of time, and the dematerialization of memory.
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Happy as Lazzaro (which is in Italian) seems, for a long stretch, like a richly textured Italian fairy tale, or a parable for how to live the good life.
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In short, what this movie yearns to be is a pop-culture "Apocalypse Now," with the human foe removed, the political parable toned down, and the gonzo elements jacked up.
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Romero and co-writer John Russo took an old horror beastie and transformed it into a malleable parable that could adjust itself accordingly to the prevailing paranoias of the age.
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On one level, the novel is a parable — with overtones of Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" — about the United States and Iraq and the still unfurling consequences of the war.
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"It was a bit of a David and Goliath idea," said Bose, now 27, referring to the Biblical parable of the young boy who took on — and defeated — a giant.
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It packed a punch: The series was visceral and horrifying, with women's agency as the show's driving theme — and how easily that could be taken away — as its central parable.
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Darren Aronofsky's complicated parable — equal parts Bible retelling, climate-change metaphor, and examination of fame — has been memorably divisive, with audiences either decrying its obviousness or completely missing the symbolism.
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Similar to last year's Mad Max: Fury Road, with its strong female characters pushing back against the patriarchy and victimization, The Witch has been read as a sly feminist parable.
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"Julius Caesar can be read as a warning parable to those who try to fight for democracy by undemocratic means," director Oskar Eustis wrote in a note about the production.
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The more we bow to the rules that have governed our cultural fantasies—Aristotelian tragedy, medieval parable, fake science—the less we confront the current regime as it really is.
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MUSLIMS know the parable as the story of the People of the Cave: some men fall asleep and find, on waking, that centuries have passed and the world is transformed.
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Bleed for This may not have you on your feet like the climax of Creed, but it's ultimately a more satisfying experience because it's such a powerful parable of perseverance.
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"What is happening in ride hailing in Japan is a parable for what is to come for the entire economy," says Steven Bleistein, CEO of Tokyo-based management consultancy Relansa.
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" A statement from Oskar Eustis on the theater's website said: "Julius Caesar can be read as a warning parable to those who try to fight for democracy by undemocratic means.
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But like the hedgehog in the Greek parable about that slow-moving animal and the quick, bright fox , the fox knows many things while the hedgehog knows one big thing.
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Tolstoy's "The Three Questions" is a parable of an emperor who seeks out a holy man on a mountain for answers he believes will help him be a great ruler.
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"The Vegetarian" reads as a parable about quiet resistance and its consequences; it's also a ruminative probing of Korean culture, in which questions of agency and conformity have particular resonance.
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In an age of climate change and conflict, the game can be experienced as a digital parable on how we are all impacted, no matter how isolated our daily lives.
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Who knew (other than its devilishly clever writer-director, Joss Whedon) that "Avengers: Age of Ultron" would be read as a parable about the National Security Agency and drone strikes?
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The books are but one reflection of how Baalsrud's story has aged into an inspiring parable about the character of all Norwegians: their resilience, their selflessness, their devotion to community.
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American Paradise is framed as a semi-factual parable told by an older African American man to a younger fishing companion, played by Talbot's close friend and roommate, Jimmie Fail.
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Another sort of civilizational threat is illustrated in the parable "Exhalation," where we learn that "the great lung of the world, the source of all our nourishment," is gradually failing.
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The play, which Brecht wrote as a refugee in Finland, in early 1941, describes the rise of Hitler through the parable of a gangster in Chicago during the Great Depression.
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But mainly I offer the parable of the soybeans as a warning against what's going to happen later this month, when the advance estimate of second-quarter G.D.P. comes in.
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Without ever mentioning Donald Trump's name or using the word "timely," Kakutani manages to make it perfectly clear exactly why this particular "Shakespearean parable" was particularly relevant for September 2016.
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In his latest cutting speculative parable, fast-rising SF writer Russell Nichols satirizes techno-optimism, the ways tech is deployed in the service of 'combatting' racism, and much more. Enjoy.
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If the book rings true, it's because Aida is such a complex and imperfect figure; she is not whom you'd invent if you wanted to write a social justice parable.
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What unfolds is a kind of parable of what it means to sit with suffering, to charm it, to bear it, the novel performing the limits of a doctor's cure.
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To reread the book under the current administration is to engage with a parable of sorts, a folk song about the challenges of being a person whose birthright defines him.
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The story has become a modern parable: a mordant Pittsburgh weatherman gets caught in a mysterious time loop and must relive the same day, in Punxsutawney, until he reaches enlightenment.
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But it is also a bitter parable of how governments in prosperous Western societies — the United States very much among them — have turned on dark-skinned migrants as alien interlopers.
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Many candidates would present such an extraordinary rise as evidence of unique personal grit, but Warren sees it as a parable about how good government policy can enable social mobility.
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Many candidates would present such an extraordinary rise as evidence of unique personal grit, but Warren sees it as a parable about how good government policy can enable social mobility.
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Less a straightforward adaptation than a passionate dialogue with the novel, this "Parable of the Sower" uses its plot to warn against what will happen if we don't stand up.
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The two bodies of work feel like a parable of racial possibility in the US. The '90s promised multicultural harmony: we only needed to "diversify," make room for many colors.
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It helps transform the movie, which in the hands of some other director could have been a relatively conventional dark-comedy thriller, into a parable of the mystery of human suffering.
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But it also aspires to be a kind of anti-Brexit parable, tracing one of the most powerful developments in the 19th century, the creation of a single market in culture.
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And buried within all the chromed out rayguns and shots of Will Smith asserting his coolness was a surprisingly progressive parable about the benefits of a compassionate approach to immigration policies.
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The battle played out for years in courtrooms and the New York news media, becoming a kind of parable of the limits of 2150s capitalist ambition in the social democratic city.
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If they do, they will find a parable — about a young democracy facing tough decisions over sharing scant resources, while addressing injustices from its past and institutional failings in its present.
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When he tells the story, it comes out as a parable about the need for integrity: dishonest employees sneaked money from the till and inflated their expense claims with faked receipts.
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The alien conspiracy at the heart of the series became a parable of our species' pursuit for self-understanding, and their complementary differences represented a kind of love we aspired toward.
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What kind of whiskey-induced, paranoid fever dream would possess a man, the Tea Party's Leni fucking Reifenstahl for that matter, to twist Coriolanus into a parable about the LA Riots?
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It's hard for us as viewers to deal with Gilead becoming normalized for a lot of the characters, even if we intellectually know that whole parable about frogs and boiling water.
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His long con made Mr. DeMeyer's tale something of a parable of our age, a dark fantasy for millions of people who serve the plutocrat class and dream of getting even.
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Like The NeverEnding Story, we toggle between the folklore and the real, watching Alexis, sitting in his New York bedroom, pore over illustrations that come to life in an apocalyptic parable.
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The Tree of Knowledge series combines elements from the Garden of Eden parable with influences from Eastern religions and af Klint's spiritual studies, as well as her background in botanical illustrations.
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You could find reassurance in this parable—robots will never replicate Homo sapiens —but also the expression of an even greater nightmare, that true A.I. will completely depart from anthropocentric standards.
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The orchard as a metaphor dates to a parable in the Talmud, composed around the fourth century, of four sages who entered the Pardes, the orchard of knowledge of the Torah.
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She tells me a tale that reads like a parable: At the beginning of the 20th century, the British explorer Ernest Mansfield went to the Arctic convinced he would find gold.
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A cinnamon-dusted parable of sisterhood and self-reliance, the show has lured sizable audiences with the mouthwatering pie scent that suffuses the lobby and the lush harmonies of Bareilles's score.
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She views the parable of the sorceress, who loses her magical powers after falling for the knight Ruggiero, as an expression about love but also societal pressures to maintain eternal youth.
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And in order to marry a potentially cloying and sentimental parable to a balls-out satirical exercise, Waititi turns to the most sacred of figures in our cultural imagination: the child.
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The movie closes before we have any opportunity to see any hint of whether this plays out well for her, but the story's lean parable format doesn't require a longer view.
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" Butler made headlines this year when fans noted that her 1998 novel The Parable of the Talents features a fascist politician who rises to power by promising to "make America great again.
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"You're definitely seeing a parable about the insufficiency of things," said Jon Spaihts, who also penned the scripts to 2012's "Prometheus" and Marvel's "Doctor Strange" — one of the year's biggest hits.
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Welcome to Tranquility- Gail Simone's story of a retirement community for superheroes and villains is a darkly funny parable about how you get on after you've put your life's work behind you.
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Competitive companies like GrubHub, Uber's chosen parable of Amazon, and Lyft all fell in Friday trading, with Lyft continuing its post-IPO malaise by declining by 7 percent, just like Uber did.
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Jacob's tormented wrestling with the opposing forces of memory and oblivion occupies one long night in a psychiatric clinic in a parable as intense and affecting as the Biblical story of Job.
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Books, and stories in particular, are probably the greatest source of wisdom after experience (as I argued on the TEDx stage, diving deep into the meaning of a single ancient Taoist parable).
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Speaking of climate change, let's start there, because whatever else California's tangled story is — and it is many things — it is a parable about the challenges of adapting to a changing climate.
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In the film, Andrade's friend Edinha tells a group a children a modern-day parable: READ: The king with 100 wives "Once upon a time there was an ignorant church," it begins.
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The less I give away about Sheaquan M. Datt's wonderful, future-pointed parable, the better, so I'll just exhort everyone to grab a portable and some sunblock and bask in its rays.
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"Julius Caesar can be read as a warning parable to those who try to fight for democracy by undemocratic means," the play's director, Oskar Eustis said in a statement promoting the performance.
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A parable about the contagious nature of corruption and the curse of dirty money, "1000 Rupee Note" asks, How valuable is a windfall to people who live their lives largely without money?
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But whereas that movie was a Calvinist parable of free will in a determined universe (with no sex or profanity), this one focuses on the disruptive and liberating consequences of scientific thought.
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As a story, Fences works on two levels: as a sort of timeless parable about a man fighting death, and as a personal experience tightly tied to a distinct time and place.
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Then it focused on internet culture, in "Nosedive" (about a society in which one's welfare is tied to one's online popularity) and "Hated in the Nation" (a parable about social-media mobs).
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That goes double in the world of Ball's fiction, which has the same dreamlike sparseness you might find in Kafka or Borges — something less like our world than a parable of it.
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In the Good Samaritan parable told in the Gospel of Luke, Jesus points us to a man risking his life to give material help to someone of a different race and religion.
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"Arrival" is a science-fiction parable in a distinctly more idealistic hopeful key than most movies in this genre, one in which the best solutions don't necessarily materialize in a gun sight.
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In that, Applegate's novel becomes a parable — not unlike a certain classic novel in which a tiny spider, protecting a sweet, smart, runt of a pig, taught us the power of friendship.
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The production after which the protest photo was taken this week, Bertolt Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," is a parable of justice involving two women's struggle for the custody of a child.
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An Anglican parable based on a Japanese Noh play, it could be tediously precious, stilted, all the emotion in its story (a Madwoman searches for her son) suffocated under layers of stylization.
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In the midst of a glowing, Tron-inspired installation, Steyerl's film is a parable of class struggle set in a not-so-distant future characterized by motion-capture gulags and internet infamy.
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They would ask for wisdom in fighting a particular temptation, and the monk would reply with a story that was "part parable, part admonition about fight that particular temptation," as DeYoung says.
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The house parable in Street-land is the successful local campaign, led by a certain former retail boss, to persuade HSBC, a global investment bank, to base its consumer-banking operations in Birmingham.
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Phillips may not have intended for his film to be a political parable -- or maybe he did -- but it's hard to imagine a darker ending for our real-world horror-comedy than that.
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By David Bach and John David Mann Top financial expert David Bach and co-author John David Mann teach readers the three secrets to financial freedom in this highly compelling and relatable parable.
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Or have they been, from one chapter to the next, entirely reinvented, making their twin tales a parable not of the changeability of human motives but of the infinite possibilities of film itself?
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Two games that came after Infinite, The Talos Principle and The Stanley Parable, address more artistic form and gaseous, theoretical questions, and can almost get away with their absence of heart and humanity.
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But he also has a fairly narrow skill set that results in fairly repetitive duties and that sometimes has a hand in turning an otherwise thrilling game into a parable of professional ennui.
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Neither do I. But in 2005, this mash-up of pop psychology and parable making presented in a business self-help book of the same name was poised to be a best-seller.
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Three weeks after I'm With Her had written an album's worth of material — including just one cover song, Gillian Welch's parable of hard traveling, "Hundred Miles" — the group went to record in England.
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At once a work of social realism and a parable (as its biblical title suggests), the movie subtly advocates for the virtues of camaraderie, solidarity, and sticking up for yourself and your friends.
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It's a parable about how Donald Trump is going to seem like an unstoppable tsunami right until October, only to be magically frozen by a dazzling if slightly chilly queen with supernatural powers.
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"Even after all these years I have no idea what you're talking about half the time," Saul tells him, after a long parable about a squirrel on a wire wheel with broken feet.
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It is impossible not to read the story of the dog—who is eventually named Balak, which sounds like the Hebrew word for "dog" spelled backward—as a parable of Jewish history itself.
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In a few years when my older daughter starts seriously thinking about college I'll share the parable of the Dad Who Falsely Thought He Who Knew What He Wanted And Lucked Out Anyway.
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The movie bogs down toggling between melodrama and parable, leading to a denouement that plays like a semi-homage to Luis Buñuel's "Belle de Jour," always a nice movie to be reminded of.
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In short order, the larger world crashes in, and a story of radical, deeply privileged individualism gives way to a potent, messy and sometimes uncomfortable parable about what human beings owe one another.
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They urge it, framing it as a "woke" tribe's message to the slumbering masses, a parable of the hypocrisy that white America harbors and the fear with which black Americans move through it.
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To avoid any speech patterns that may hint at a particular language or country contributes to the parable-like feel of the novel but it can also deplete some scenes of their vitality.
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Here is where your typical American news story might turn into a parable of addiction and dysfunction, even though the evidence we have suggests the vast majority of pain patients don't become addicted.
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It felt akin to a parable in the Bible's Book of Kings, in which King Solomon ordered two women, both claiming to be the mother of a child, to cut the infant in half.
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In the comic meditation The Stanley Parable, a hapless office worker explores his abandoned workplace while being harangued by the game's domineering narrator, who grows more flustered and hostile with every act of disobedience.
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And I think, by the way, that Microsoft, it's almost like a parable, what happened to them, and I think everyone in the Valley — why Google and Facebook have such huge offices out here.
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Shot on beautiful British Columbia locations, in postindustrial settings that could have been left over from a "Planet of the Apes" movie, the gorgeous extinction parable "See" exhibits a ripe ridiculousness that's almost endearing.
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Their tale of two angels who crash-land in a suburban backyard and come to be maimed, exploited and brutally violated by hitherto unremarkable residents is presented as a parable without take-away lessons.
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The book became a commercial blockbuster that sold more than 40 million copies, a staple on school curriculums, and an enduring moral parable about a young girl's coming of age in an unjust world.
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Le lit de la vierge (1970) would push this even further, placing the figures of Christ and Mary Magdalene against a barren Moroccan landscape in a parable that obliquely reflects thwarted post-revolutionary desires.
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Today's Google Doodle honors Octavia Butler, the visionary science fiction author whose work, including novels like Kindred and Parable of the Sower, deeply influenced both current Afrofuturist thought and genre fiction as a whole.
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For Mr Gove, this story of social mobility enabled by traditionalist education was an inspiring parable (that Gramsci's education had led him to question the very basis of conservative society was beside the point).
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It references a parable about a sharecropper who takes up his plow in place of a bull and works himself to death — a cautionary tale against the instrumentalizing of the individual by the state.
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Somewhere within it is a weirdo parable about how immigrants will rob you and wreck your life, and then head back to their native land, and the movie seems blissfully unaware of this reading.
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The relationship plays out like a parable about gender in the 1970s, between two people who think they are fully aware of human behavior but in fact conceive of it in very different ways.
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Abbas Kiarostami, often hailed as Iran's greatest filmmaker, whose searching, parable-like dramas of ordinary people and their problems reflected a poetic vision and a philosophical turn of mind, died on Monday in Paris.
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That deafening silence is allowing the administration's domestic and foreign opponents to pervert the profound meaning of "America First" — a parable of policy logic followed by any dedicated, successful and democratically elected public servants.
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In an email, Junot Díaz talked about "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas," Ms. Le Guin's parable about a society whose happy existence depends on keeping one small child locked away in misery.
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But more than that, it skated by because so many people in power vouched for it, like watching a terrifying version of the children's parable "The Emperor's New Clothes" play out in real life.
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It's a kind of parable about night feeding, featuring a young mother who has made a dark bargain and now must awaken at 4:44 am every morning in order to breastfeed the devil.
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In a sense, these documentaries -- coupled with other recent ones, such as Ava DuVernay's "13th" and the Oscar-nominated short "Traffic Stop" -- bring to mind the parable about the blind men and the elephant.
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"Fire in Dreamland," Rinne Groff's shaky parable of art and love and licorice at the Public Theater, is set just after Hurricane Sandy, the 2012 catastrophe that devastated New York's coastline, flooding Coney Island.
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If the golden arches are a symbol of America all over the world, then The Founder is a parable, a symbol of everything that's admirable, and disturbing, about the celebrated American spirit of industry.
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There are exceptions, including "Imitation of Life," a 1930s melodrama with a storyline about a black character who "passes" for white, as well as "Intruder in the Dust," a 1940s parable of white conscience.
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The heroine of Tyler J. Kupferer's "The Girl and the Fox" comes to see a marauding animal in a new light, while "The Mantis Parable," by Josh Staub, teaches a gentle lesson in compassion.
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One of his two graphic novels about the attack, "The Bite," illustrated with finely drawn pen-and-ink sketches, is as much a parable of transcending fear and hatred as it is a memoir.
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The hero of "Parable of the Sower" is Lauren Oya Olamina, an African-American teenager who is displaced from her California home and creates a new religion while building a community among fellow refugees.
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Chigozie Obioma's debut novel, "The Fishermen," a biblical parable set during the military dictatorship of the 1990s, was translated into more than 20 languages and was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.
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Carroll's parable about the distancing effects of human consciousness and language has particular resonance at a time when close encounters with nonhuman animals are increasingly being sought to heal our psychic and social woes.
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As he tries to unwrap the story's mysteries, the movie becomes a parable about someone who's been unfairly sidelined by society for who he is, where he lives, and how much money he has.
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Confrontational, horrifying and beautiful in equal measure, Hulu's Handmaid's Tale is both a timely parable and an electrifying call to action against the evil that is allowed to flourish when good people do nothing.
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He set about putting together creatively bold, modestly budgeted films like "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," a military parable directed by Ang Lee, and "The Walk," a 3-D thriller directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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No matter what he claimed as the intention behind the painting "Parson Weems' Fable" (1939), this parable of George Washington confessing to chopping down the cherry tree is the looniest painting in the show.
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The story is a parable that's meant to communicate a larger point — to his fans, fact-checking it is like asking the prodigal son's father to show proof that he really killed the fatted calf.
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In 1973, the research duo of John Darley and Daniel Batson asked Princeton Theological Seminary students to visit a group of children across campus to deliver a sermon on the parable of the Good Samaritan.
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"Blowin' in the Wind" might have the simple language of a parable; it is hard to imagine somebody before Mr Dylan, however, describing a white dove sailing many seas before she sleeps in the sand.
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In it, he span his own shipwreck parable, in which a lone Robinson Crusoe tries to save three years' worth of provisions to tide him over while he devotes his energies to digging a canal.
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If, in Kierkegaard's parable, we got the call to see the emperor, we would ignore it, in the way we learn to ignore the phone call offering us a free vacation at a Florida resort.
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As the brothers head toward Oklahoma, the resigned ranchers and deserted strip malls they encounter speak to a vanishing way of life, their journey becoming a parable of corporate exploitation and bleed-them-dry greed.
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He is on a more profound mission: His book is a parable about the threat from a brazen President who demands a warped concept of loyalty and has only disdain for the rule of law.
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"The Shape of Water" is elegant, dreamy, a fairy tale and parable from Guillermo del Toro about tolerance, cruelty and human-piscine sex; it also pays homage to cinema, which academy members tend to reward.
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The fictional Republic of Gilead as an allegory of Trump's America drew scoffs from conservatives, some of whom argued that its vision of sexual slavery could also be read as a parable about assisted reproduction.
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A mix of '80s rebellion film and dystopian political parable — "'The Road Warrior' crossed with 'The Exterminating Angel'" as The Los Angeles Times put it — the movie also touches on Australia's history of racial tensions.
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Next year, Saga Press will publish Liu's 624-page translation of Hao Jingfang's novel "Vagabonds," a meandering philosophical parable about an ideological rift between a communalistic human colony on Mars and an increasingly capitalistic Earth.
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Folded into the compressed, densely psychological portrait of this family is a whole universe: a parable of rising India, an indictment of domestic violence, a taxonomy of ants and a sly commentary on translation itself.
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Parasite is a parable of social inequity, an often hilarious but very angry story about how the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and everyone sucks the lifeblood from one another in the process.
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Suppose the authors intended that the villain in the piece be like Barack Obama or the Democrats, and that Jessica Jones would be like the Libertarian Party, and they were trying to do a parable.
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Triantafyllidis says free will is up front in most video games, but is also showcased in a great way in Davey Wreden's The Stanley Parable game, which explores choice, reality, and free will in its storytelling.
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Her work makes a disorienting first impression, at times nightmarish, at times deceptively conservative in its imagery; yet as the viewer progresses through the sequence it become clear that the paintings present a carefully plotted parable.
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He had taken to handing out small toy turtles to children he met along the way, in what often felt like a parable intended just for him — maybe slow and steady could, still, win the race.
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The reign of King Bibi is thus a parable of modern politics: the rise of a talented politician and a long success based on a perplexing mixture of carrying out sound policy and cynically sowing division.
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Stretched across a silvery, wooden American flag, Muhammad Ali's wide-eyed image is America, a visual parable: he looks at once determined and full of wonder, sweat-soaked from putting in work and somehow eternally gracious.
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In their characteristically smart, postmodern way, the piece's directors, Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson (who also choreographs), create a parable of what they call "the obsessively annotated life," mixing dance and music, text and song.
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In the chorus of best-selling contemporary domestic thrillers, a triumphant #MeToo parable has emerged: that of the flawed, scorned, disbelieved, misjudged, and underestimated female witness whose testimony is rejected—but turns out to be correct.
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Remotely based on the 1844 Hans Christian Andersen tale "The Snow Queen," a parable about faith and friendship, the movie retained only the central metaphor of a woman who can freeze people's hearts with her witchcraft.
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The sinking becomes the catalyst not for a morality tale, but rather a parable of cultural intersection: Kitchener's dreamlike confrontation with phantom presences on a mysteriously transformed version of the island that later bore his name.
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In partnership with the distributor GKids, Fathom Events will screen this Oscar-winning parable on adolescence, written and directed by the great Japanese moviemaker Hayao Miyazaki, in participating theaters as part of Studio Ghibli Fest 2018.
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A comment on the innately human desire for companionship, the story is a "picaresque parable," A.H. Weiler wrote for The Times in 1956, the year the film won an Academy Award for best foreign language film.
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"Heidenröslein," with its parable of seduction and abandonment—a boy plucks a rose, which pricks him with the thorn of regret—grew out of Goethe's guilt over what he knew to be his own bad conduct.
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But at least one tastemaker (so to speak) says "Raw" is well worth any gastrointestinal upset: Rolling Stone has declared it a "clever feminist parable" that might well be the best horror film of the decade.
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Those with a socio-economic bent might see it as a parable of the transition from rural to industrial society, while religious scholars could easily interpret it as a reimagining of the Garden of Eden myth.
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The Portuguese novelist Gonçalo Tavares, who has written a number of fascinating parable-like novels set in unnamed cities, created a term for sentences that veer in unexpected directions or dare an unexpected shift in syntax.
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The Parable of the Sower is the coming-of-age story of a an African-American minister's daughter who lives in a racially mixed and charged community, which gated itself due to an ongoing ecological crisis.
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Seth Rogen is undoubtedly Hollywood's biggest stoner, so it's fitting that his magnum opus with collaborators Kyle Hunter, Ariel Shaffir, and Evan Goldberg is a computer-animated parable in which the characters are literally junk food.
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The Shape of Water is a parable of love and revolution centered on characters deemed Others, and even though the movie is set 55 years ago in Baltimore, it's quite relevant to our current political situation.
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January's Serenity starts out as a smoldering neo-noir before hooking a hard left into a weird ontological parable, while March's The Beach Bum is a shaggy ramble following an eccentric law-breaker's aimless flight from justice.
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To listen to him orate is to pay a visit to Schulz-town, a place where (like something out of a 19th century novel) everyone stands for some social force, where everyone's personal story is a parable.
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PETER BRYSONChairSkipton and East Lancashire Rail Action PartnershipAddingham, West Yorkshire The argument that migration is the answer to what is largely a question of distribution brought to mind the parable in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath".
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Billy Beane's use of statistics at the Oakland Athletics, a baseball team with limited means, was an early parable of the power of "big data"; Mr Beane now sits on the board of Netsuite, a software firm.
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Elevator Repair Service, best known for "Gatz," its six-hour take on "The Great Gatsby," returns to the Public with "Measure for Measure," infusing Shakespeare's jaundiced parable with—of all things—Marx Brothers-style slapstick (Sept. 18).
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A haunting parable of contemporary misogyny, "The Natural Way of Things", which earlier this year won the Stella prize for fiction by Australian women, is "The Handmaid's Tale" for our age of sensational media and reality television.
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Commissioned by London's Royal Court Theatre, where it ran in 2013, the play is a historical parable that lampoons the eighteenth-century roots of free-market capitalism, with a cast of eighteen playing characters including Adam Smith.
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At its root, it's a parable that cuts to the central dysfunctions in the American economic and political order, one that should dismantle our notions of meritocracy and put a strict limit on our forbearance for elites.
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Along with ideas about perception and reality put forth by prominent 20th century thinkers, like Alan Watts and Werner Heisenberg, Hu says that the project was inspired by the parable of the blind men and an elephant.
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But as a theatrical parable, "Re-Member Me" is powerful nonetheless, positing acting as a means by which gay men of a very recent era sought to reintegrate themselves into a culture that otherwise viciously disowned them.
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As a parable of Bressonian purity, "First Cow" offers a clear-eyed assessment of how we got here; as a magnificent, moving example of Reichardt's uncompromising vision, it doesn't just deliver a critique, but transcendence. PG-13.
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Additionally, this South Korean horror-comedy, a radical parable of inequality, won the Golden Globe for best foreign film, the Writers Guild Award for best original screenplay and the best-ensemble prize from the Screen Actors Guild.
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Yes, The Stanley Parable is best known as an absurdist, highly self-aware standalone video game released by studio Galactic Cafe in 2013, not by its original status as a Half-Life 2 mod posted in 2011.
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Mr. Hamid, a cultural chameleon and polyglot who was born in Pakistan and spent more than half his life in the United States and London, didn't intend to write a dystopian parable about the current refugee crisis.
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It's a parable of rising India and of violence against women, and a sly commentary on translation (it's one of the first books written in the Indian language of Kannada to be published in the United States).
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Jason Arias Jason Arias The less I give away about Sheaquan M. Datt's wonderful, future-pointed parable, the better, so I'll just exhort everyone to grab a portable and some sunblock and bask in its rays. Enjoy.
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Every episode I've seen (there are nearly 2,000) is a thrilling cultural artifact, a tiny parable about the way we romanticize the stresses of modern American life and pile on more in hopes of assuaging those festering below.
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"Savior" explores the unhealthiness of mutual projection through a funny S&M parable involving nurses and nuns and our tediously prosaic concepts of kink: "You put me in a teacher's little denim skirt," Clark moans on the song.
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Her colleague and challenger for the nomination, Stacey Evans — the pair share the same first name in a parable-like twist about the short-term direction of Democratic politics — represents a slightly different vision for the party's future.
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In the book, there's a whole character, 10-year-old Vimini, who becomes Oliver's friend but dies of leukemia, and then there is the saga of the poet that Elio meets, who delivers a parable about San Clemente.
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Except for occasional mentions of modern technology in the narrative, the script and performance style of The Prisoner strive for a timeless quality, "a myth or a parable," as Brook and Estienne describe it in the program note.
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Maxwell's thematic scope is grand, encompassing the selfless love of the titular Christian parable and the sudden passionate love of two strangers whose circumstances doom their union from the start, like countless other pairs in the Western canon.
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"I loved the idea of the mother going into the underworld," Peter said in an interview from The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, citing the parable of Orpheus and Eurydice as one of the influences for the film.
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When the season goes dark, however, it goes very dark, as in "Men Against Fire," a Rod Serling-esque parable about war and dehumanization, and "Shut Up and Dance," about a man who falls prey to online blackmail.
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But while a Barack Obama or a Marco Rubio might draw from such material an uplifting only-in-America parable, the narrative Sanders quickly shifts to is how America has abjectly failed those of his working-class pedigree.
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The Broken Earth trilogy is a work of allegory and allusion, not a straightforward political parable in the vein of "Planet of the Apes" or Stephen Vincent Benét's "By the Waters of Babylon" (great as that story is).
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He also read a fable about a snake tricking a woman into nursing him back to health so he can kill her — a parable about the need for tougher immigration laws that Trump regularly read at campaign rallies.
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One of the biblical stories that, to me, defines the essence of the teachings of Jesus and Christianity, and one with relevance for the debate about American global food security policy, is the parable of the Good Samaritan.
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We believe that Jesus really meant it when he said that we should love our neighbors — meaning everyone, as the parable of the good Samaritan makes clear — and care for the poor, the sick, the homeless, the vulnerable.
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In 2014 I went back to the library and encountered Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower," a sci-fi novel written in 1993 imagining a 2020 where society has largely collapsed from climate change and growing wealth inequality.
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Indeed, so knockabout is this treatment of the familiar parable of gullibility and hypocrisy, set this time in North London high society, that some may feel they are watching an upscale sex farce rather than a canonical mainstay.
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Its story is both a warning about the difficulties of launching a digital media startup in 2019 and a parable about the extreme highs and lows that can come with working alongside the unpredictable founder of Tesla and SpaceX.
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More party favor than vision quest, Climax is a light on plot parable about a dance troupe that accidentally consumes punch laced with LSD and ends up on a trip worse than any the "Sloop John B" ever sailed.
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But for all the clumsy obviousness of the implied parable—an individual virtuoso ditches communism's dead-end and literally hops into the fucking Cadillac that will take him to fame and wealth in America—the mythic element fit Ordóñez.
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Of his 1878 opera, "Parsifal," for instance, Mr. Gutman concluded that its rendition of the story of the quest for the Holy Grail was not so much a Christian parable as it was a brief for Aryan racial purity.
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And yet, the Trump White House has refused to apologize for the remark, continues to employ Sadler and, in the most appalling twist, attempted to make the entire episode a parable of leaking as opposed to one of classlessness.
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A parable of economics and politics, with shrewd insights into the workings of supply and demand, scarcity and scale and other puzzles of the marketplace, the movie is also keenly attuned to details of history, both human and natural.
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In his Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments , Søren Kierkegaard tells a parable: A man escapes from a mental institution and into town, but he worries that he'll be returned to his cell if he's discovered to be mad.
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The great parable of our age is John Carreyrou's "Bad Blood," a remarkable account of how a 20-something Stanford dropout, Elizabeth Holmes, built a company called Theranos that fooled everyone with a supposedly transformational method to test blood.
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This parable-like tale opens in mid-argument, as the determined title character (Dolores Fonzi) is informing her somewhat cynical father (Oscar Martínez) of her plan to leave her comfortable home in Argentina to teach in a rural village.
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While your Carpetbagger felt there was plenty going on beneath the glossy surface of "Hustlers" — as a parable of class struggle, it would have been great company for the Oscar darling "Parasite" — most voters didn't bother to reconsider it.
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Like Kafka—a writer whom Agnon said he never read—Agnon presents us with a parable that turns out to be illegible, as if to show that, in a twentieth-century novel, meaning itself must be made endlessly problematic.
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Meredith Monk's only true opera — an almost entirely wordless, ethereal and lyrical parable of exploration — hadn't been done since the early 1990s, and, like the other theatrical pieces she's masterminded, it had never been attempted by new creative forces.
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Two nominees I think voters may respond to are "Fauve," a harrowing story about two boys encountering quicksand, and "Skin," a good-looking but incredibly obvious parable about race that stars Hollywood actors like Danielle Macdonald and Jonathan Tucker.
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One which lets be with the parable of treacherous creation—arguably subject to over-circulation since Mary Shelley (and some would say it's a fine Oedipal jig that dates back to Paradise Lost—or Oedipus Rex, come to think of it).
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Lomax brings up the parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant, which tells the tale of said men encountering an elephant for the first time, with each trying to identify what it is by touching just one part of it.
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Game of Thrones is no stranger to modern political parallels, with Jon Snow's season 7 finale speech about lies resonating in the Trump era and author George R.R. Martin setting up the entire series as a parable about climate change.
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The film is simultaneously a world-building bonanza, a melodramatic anti-war parable with imagery that lightly evokes the Holocaust, and a high-camp soap opera that features Jolie, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Elle Fanning as three contrasting archetypes of femininity.
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And "Parasite," which won the top prize in Cannes in May and has recently become the rare subtitled release to be mentioned as an Oscar contender beyond the foreign film category, plays out like a parable of contemporary social relations.
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"Tonya Harding's hardscrabble life epitomises the type of white working-class culture that has long been ignored," writes Gillian Tett for the Financial Times, directly linking the finger-wagging criticism the liberal media has received since the election to Harding's parable.
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While the book is a fun diversion, it's also an intriguing addition to the world that Scalzi set up in Lock In, and it serves as a good parable for how the world deals with — and takes advantage of — marginalized communities.
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When I first fell in love with the show as a concept album in 2010, I knew Anaïs Mitchell's folk-inflected score was beautiful, and the premise — the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice reimagined as an anti-capitalist parable — was compelling.
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As Brown's extensive (hand-lettered) endnotes explain, the book grew out of what was initially intended to be a self-published minicomic based on a lost variation on Jesus' parable of the talents, cited by the fourth-century historian Eusebius.
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So it was gratifying to find plays that were indeed in dialogue with real life, including a play from many decades ago, like "The Crucible," a parable of political persecution that acquires newly haunting resonance in a 21st-century context.
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Daniel Burman of Argentina gives a touch of magic realism, without dipping into the supernatural, to "The Tenth Man," a teasing parable about fathers and sons and the power of faith (which can sometimes take many years to reveal itself).
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To some extent, the mismatch between consumer and business confidence is akin to the parable of the blind men and the elephant: Their descriptions vary wildly because each is touching a different part, the trunk, a tusk or a side.
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When Albert's plans go awry, they culminate in a parable that earned Jury Award nominations at the Sundance Film Festival and South by Southwest, won the award at the Nashville Film Festival and charmed an audience at Harlem's Apollo Theater.
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Fortunately, only a decade later the planetary scientist Frank Drake turned the Fermi Paradox from parable to physics with the now famous Drake equation, which is used by SETI researchers to estimate the probability of life in the Milky Way.
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However, Mr. Ullrich offers a fascinating Shakespearean parable about how the confluence of circumstance, chance, a ruthless individual and the willful blindness of others can transform a country — and, in Hitler's case, lead to an unimaginable nightmare for the world.
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The story of a brother and sister surviving on their own amid firestorms and famine during World War II, Mr. Takahata's parable of Japanese nationalism and the high cost of pride is often cited as one of the Ghibli masterpieces.
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DOWNSIZING Alexander Payne (working with his frequent screenwriting partner Jim Taylor) directs a parable set in the near future, when the frugal and environmentally conscious can "get small" — that is, have themselves miniaturized and live large in tiny resort communities.
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It was from that book I first learned about Real Dolls—almost a decade before Ryan Gosling dated one—met Charles Manson's drug dealer, read an interview with a real-life necrophile, and read a parable written by unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
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Which means they — we — are always at risk of finding in the mirror the self-righteous elder brother in Jesus' parable of the prodigal son, who resents his father's liberality, the welcome given to the younger brother coming home at last.
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Andrey Zvyagintsev's Loveless is two things at once: a tragedy about a divorcing couple so disconnected from each other that their son is gone for two days before they notice, and a parable about the loss of hope in contemporary Russia.
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Otherwise, everything, from a wall-size graphite reproduction of Pieter Bruegel's "The Parable of the Blind," minus the people, to a short video loop of a kissing couple who have been rotoscoped into pulsing clouds, is in black and white.
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While listening to a friend's anguish and searching for words of comfort, the speaker in this poem happens to gaze out her window — and finds in the natural world her totem, as well as a frighteningly apt parable for endurance.
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"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" — Martin McDonagh's violent revenge parable starring Mr. Rockwell and Frances McDormand — has been the subject of fierce debate on social media and among critics who have sparred over both its artistic merits and its racial politics.
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Though the story was a full-blown fantasy, with ogres and a dragon, it was also a parable that explored many of the themes that have preoccupied Mr. Ishiguro throughout his career, including the fragile nature of individual and collective memory.
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And Ms. Chung's play is, in its tender way, a horror story: a dark parable about what happens if we try to swap roles or refuse to play along or reveal ourselves to our nearest without makeup or stage lights.
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Over the years, as hope of finding Madeleine dwindled, her story became a kind of parable repeated by parents up and down the country, warning of what might happen to their children if they wandered off at the grocery store.
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And while the temptation is to see the play as a parable for our current political divisions — see all that chanting and chest pounding — Letts says "The Minutes" wasn't meant to be a condemnation of President Trump, or any particular politician.
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The parable of the good Samaritan comes from the Bible: Jesus recounts how a man from Samaria, which was hostile to the Jews, stops and rescues a traveler beaten and half-dead by the side of a road when others wouldn't.
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Without entirely denying his audience the pleasures of the gangster genre — or of his own brash, baroque, sensual cinematic style — he strips away accumulated layers of romance and mystification, producing a vivid, complicated portrait that is also a political parable.
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Collectively, the cases have become a cautionary parable for modern-day college athletics, one in which a Christian university seemed to lose sight of its core values in pursuit of football glory and protected gridiron heroes who preyed on women.
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This cold open is the kind of parable Watchmen already does so well: Here's a little story about the avariciousness of capitalism wedded to the kind of comic book tech that allows babies to be grown and dreams to be fulfilled.
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Around that true story, Mr. Rosenfeld has woven the fictional parable of a heroin-addicted white mother (Chloë Sevigny) trying to keep her son and his best friend, who is black, from ending up on opposite sides of the violence.
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In Ashman's version, it becomes a parable for the destructive natures of repression and the desire for the kind of heterosexual domesticity emblematic of Reagan-era politics (not to mention the way blood itself feeds what later becomes an epidemic).
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A year after Mr. Salvini stormed Italian politics from the far right, his rise as Italy's most powerful politician — far-eclipsing the influence of a prime minister many consider a puppet — has become a parable of the modern social media age.
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