This conversation among cosmic forces occurs in one of many parables — and parables within parables.
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Everywhere you look in his films, you find progressive parables.
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His life and career now resemble one of his religion's parables.
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There no parables, words of wisdom or reflections on eternal life.
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Parables respond to our deep hunger to be in close relationship.
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He traveled with women, taught them and used them in parables.
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But is there any merit to this and other booze-related parables?
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I am not a Christian, but I hear profound messages in these parables.
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Stories of seasons saved or tragic downfalls became parables as much as news.
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There is the Hasidic tradition, with its Zenlike parables and wisdom-working rabbis.
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Their stories aren't religious parables or anything, but they're close cousins in many ways.
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Some of the pieces read like poems; some like parables, some like punch lines.
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We present our stories as parables of what not to do with your life.
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"The Illinois Parables," Deborah Stratman's hourlong essay film, arrives at just the right moment.
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In the end, perhaps it is best to appreciate these photos as wordless parables.
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Tate's poems tempt you to interpret them as parables, as I have done above.
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She polished her poetry into a sharp staccato on "Parables," purposefully pronouncing every syllable.
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Trading jewels and soaking in parables with the many-headed Brandon aka BasedGod in conversation.
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Perhaps, as Mr Flynt notes, evangelical leaders should pay more attention to their own parables.
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In Cudjo, himself a gifted storyteller and crafter of parables, she found an ideal interlocutor.
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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch sits squarely in the dystopian anthology show's tradition of chilling tech parables.
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In it, Clason divulges financial wisdom through a series of parables set in ancient Babylon.
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These quirky personal comics are often enigmatic, reading like parables written in an alien tongue.
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To Tawada — the acclaimed author of tender, screwy parables about outsiderdom — we are clad in language.
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I think they believe all their own stories, the Biblical parables and anti-abortion propaganda materials alike.
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There are horror films, comedies, romances, and supernatural science fiction parables, all shoved under the same marquee.
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Confusing pop stars with parables — moonwalking versus walking on water — is surely forgivable if swollen bellies are.
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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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Parables about rich fools and brotherly love easily translate into modern warnings about capitalism and empathy for refugees.
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Like most guru-like figures, Susun has a habit of speaking in free-associative parables punctuated with paradoxes.
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Nor does it end there; like all good parables, the story has layer upon layer of forensic meaning.
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The voice, at first the kind of detached simplified narration native to folk parables, becomes confident and nuanced.
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I've seen Deborah Stratman's "The Illinois Parables" only once (Program 3), but I'm eager to see it again.
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As a work of literature the Bible has everything: poetry, philosophy, storytelling, myths, fictions, riddles, fables, parables, allegories.
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Mr. Trump and Mr. Thackeray understood the power of stories and spoke not in policy, but in parables.
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It would have required, at a bare minimum, not using the deaths as material for neat, partisan parables.
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You know, the list of what to do and what not to do, with some parables thrown into it.
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As parables go, it's no David and Goliath, but at least I know the CFPB is on my side.
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Over quiet, burbling, sunbaked guitar arpeggios, he recites gnostic puzzles and surreal rustic parables in a deep, gentle monotone.
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The perils of vanity have been preached in cautionary parables, fables, and verse again and again over the centuries.
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Ms. Lizzimore, best known in Britain as an intrepid director, is overly fond of poetic parables and fairy tales.
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Holmes sees his new volume as a "declaration of faith," though it is as much a book of parables.
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The documentary The Illinois Parables reads the complicated matter of religion and historical conflict into the landscape of Illinois.
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Many a controversy has benefited from one of his ingenious analogies or numerical parables, usually involving some kind of fruit.
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New York itself is "the great teacher" that uses traffic to teach patience, and uses buildings and neighborhoods as parables.
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They are now held every seven years, in a week of atonement and costumed parades that re-enact biblical parables.
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"The Illinois Parables" is not, strictly speaking, an educational film, but it conveys a unique and precious kind of knowledge.
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The result is more than 300 ink and gouache paintings depicting all 114 chapters as parables of contemporary American life.
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Page 93-267: Like Jesus speaking to his apostles, Facebook often imparted nuggets of its culture in the form of parables.
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The plot is really Velvet Buzzsaw's weakest link — parables work well from a bird's eye view, less so with granular details.
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Framing the scenes with Karma, he therefore gives us both a preshow and a prologue, supertitles and asides, "exhibits" and parables.
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His country is presented to us as all heat and dust and moonlight; his family communicates in inscrutable Eastern-sounding parables.
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Because this museum also celebrates Judaism, the show combines its information on wildlife with parables that emphasize lessons from the Torah.
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Lerner's musical women, however dated they might seem on the surface, usually offer little parables about living in all our dimensionality.
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Francis is also skilled at using biblical examples and parables (like the familiar story of the Prodigal Son) to illustrate his arguments.
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One of the political parables about Hillary Clinton that's kicking around the internet features Senator Elizabeth Warren talking about a bankruptcy bill.
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Everything is shaped on a deeper level, through the parables, fables and myths that our most fundamental groups use to define themselves.
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Mingling English, Malayalam and Arabic in a series of Kafkaesque parables, Unnikrishnan's book features a lot of action and even some humor.
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There are stories about broken or cruel families, niche narratives hand-animated by microscopic teams, and surreal parables about humanity's relationship with technology.
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Theirs is a lens through which people have long accessed esoteric secrets within diverse sources, from folk tales and parables to historical passages.
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They both started out as narratives about the mistreatment of women but were swiftly twisted into parables about the mistreatment of black men.
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This is fiction in touch with the starker parables, with Kafka and Beckett, with the austerity of bare rooms and declarative, uninflected sentences.
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Along with the pointed parables, he spoke of the virtues of blind justice, rhetoric that would not be newsworthy under recent past administrations.
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Most early-twentieth-century dystopian novels took the form of political parables, critiques of planned societies, from both the left and the right.
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Myths tend to celebrate grandeur and heroic superiority; parables tend to puncture the pretensions of superiority and celebrate humility and service to others.
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"Enjoying every pleasure, anticipating the stress," she raps on "Parables," employing what seems to be a "Don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness" approach.
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Only when we hear the parables as Jesus' own audience did can we fully experience their power and find ourselves surprised and challenged today.
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He's a formidable presence, armored in gold-rimmed shades and a silky, sea-green durag, and is prone to speaking in rhyme and parables.
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We ought to look to fables, parables, myths, and folklore from a wider pool than what Hollywood and western science fiction have given us.
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When we asked Joshua Clancy, over email, about the "sort of work" produced by Oval-X, he described his design duo through binary parables.
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Speaking in front of loyalists this week at his party headquarters in Harare, the 93-year-old leader tapped into his fondness for parables.
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Instead of a real discussion about power hierarchies, we're served milquetoast Martin Luther King Jr. quotes and Instagram-ready parables about equality and freedom.
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The sermon was built around one of the most famous parables of Jesus, a story about the Last Judgment in Matthew 25: 31-46.
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Parables like that of the "lost sheep" emphasize that the whole group must compromise when the life of a single person is at stake.
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He tends to take the scenic route through a conversation; his answers come wrapped in anecdotes and parables, laced with riddles and rhetorical questions.
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Kieslowski and his co-screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz's tales are parables of ethical imperatives and moral quandaries set during the final days of communist Poland.
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Organized into 11 chapters (or "parables"), the film is partly an anthology of things that happened in Illinois, and of responses to those events.
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Evans says he is a man who is undeniably Jewish, a genius who understands his culture but also transcends his tradition with gem-like parables.
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Basketball fans should be, too — a man who's existed for most through mythology, parables and thirdhand reports is finally ready to tell his own story.
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The mechanic used to do this is fairly classic from a narrative perspective, dating back to ancient parables, but there's a reason classics are classics.
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I can only vaguely remember parables, and I'm hazy on disciples' names, but our Lord's greatest commandment—to love as he loved—sticks with me.
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In the prestige movies that court critical and academy approval, black people are often symbols and symptoms, their stories parables of pathology, striving and redemption.
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There are all the parables the disciples are too boneheaded to understand, kiddie squabbles about who is going to get the best seat in heaven.
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He flattered, shared bits of intelligence, or preached parables from the Bible, depending on his spot assessment of what would get through to the crowd.
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The zombie genre, conducive to parables about human flaws and their disturbing results, and to satisfying amounts of repulsiveness, has flourished in the past decade.
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The p-hacking problem is one of many high-tech parables in James Bridle's book New Dark Age, which will be released in the US tomorrow.
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In taking on parables and politics, religion and love, never quite joking and never totally serious, Bejar marks himself a neutral observer of a frightful world.
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At 45, with a lumbering swagger and drawling parables culled from the family farm, Mr. Roe has steered Mr. Cruz's onetime long-shot presidential bid into contention.
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"When you look at the parables in the Bible about how Jesus carried out his ministry, Jesus didn't just talk about who he was," Yang will argue.
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They are not exactly "Fifty Shades of Grey", the West's self-published sex sensation of recent times: many are classic Cinderella stories or pious parables about housewifery.
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Here was a dark, ultramodern anthology series that harnessed all of our technological anxieties and spun them into twisted parables on the relationship between man and machine.
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But that was then and this is now, and the relatable vibe of 2017 is tech-terror as our worst dystopian parables seem close to coming true.
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Her madcap hats, suspended from fishing line on a stage in the church's meeting hall, featured miniature sculptural scenes including parables about global warming and animal rights.
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Smith's poetry, published that same year, transcends the boundary between personal and universal by imbuing his parables with the realities of Black America through creative poetic form.
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The video reads more like a short film, using parables from the Russian mob as a vehicle to discuss humanity's unquechable desire to rise in the ranks.
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"For Unto Us a Child Is Born" resounded through the house, as I reflected on not being a "Jew for Jesus" (except that I love Jesus' parables).
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Neil Gordon, whose cerebral novels about radical politics, most famously "The Company You Keep," challenged readers with biblical parables and ethical dilemmas, died on May 19 in Manhattan.
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Arimah's magic realism owes something to Ben Okri's use of spirit beliefs, while her science fiction parables, with their ecological and feminist concerns, recall those of Margaret Atwood.
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But Martin-Green expressed confidence that, whatever shape or form the series takes, there will always be a place for the imaginative parables that it has helped pioneer.
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Politicians speak in parables, and the squeaky-clean details of the pawnshop tale — the friendly cop, the gun that never fires — felt comically estranged from Gravel's progressive platform.
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Parents, daughter and nanny all feel neglected and jealous in different degrees and directions, a potentially barbed situation that the writers play for mild laughs and greeting-card parables.
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Parables — think of the good Samaritan, the emperor's new clothes, the prodigal son or the story of Ruth, Naomi and Boaz — are mostly about inner states, not external combat.
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Before Beethoven set it as an anti-Napoleon opera, and long before stage directors turned it into parables about Guantánamo Bay or Bergen-Belsen, "Fidelio" was an opéra comique.
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He is given to parables and analogies, and he speaks with his entire torso, leaning over and looking you in the eyes to make sure you're still with him.
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Throughout his relatively short life, in his free hours, he wrote parables, fables, novels and diaries with a vehemence that suggests a physiological compulsion to get at the truth.
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The review continues: Smith's poetry, published that same year, transcends the boundary between personal and universal by imbuing his parables with the realities of Black America through creative poetic form.
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" Parables sidestep binary logic, polishing instead the lush intricacies of the sacred, where "the body-that-is exists always in anticipation of and conversation with the body-that-will-be.
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Remember that comic book superhero sagas, like folktales and religious parables, are fundamentally moralistic: They pit Good in the fight against Evil, and in the US that story never gets old.
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All it takes to get rich is mastering a few simple concepts, such as paying yourself first and living within your means, which Clason preaches via a collection of entertaining parables.
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With unabashed color and closely blended forms, the parables of yesterday see a new bit of light in a series of finely-wrought illustrations rooted in themes of folklore and tradition.
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Drawing from diverse cultural traditions, parables and folktales and artists themselves — Walt Whitman and Edward Hopper among them — Hyde develops a steadying, inspiring study that suggests how to keep art sacred.
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Later, as a columnist for the newspaper Bulletin Today (now Manila Bulletin), she used parables, fairy tales and sly innuendo to poke fun at Mr. Marcos and his flamboyant wife, Imelda.
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Loose biblical associations are threaded throughout: a census is about to be held, the family meets many sinners, listens to parables and discusses sin, guilt, redemption and how miscreants should be treated.
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Of course now, in 2019, when we live in a self-perpetuating Ren & Stimpy sketch that is hellishly inescapable, Invader Zim's hyperbolic Bush era parables seem less "random" than they do prescient.
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Soderbergh and his top-notch cast (Sharon Stone shows up, as do Jeffrey Wright and Matthias Schoenaerts) keep things lively, playing out parables of betrayal and deception with pulpy, TV-movie flair.
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Paul is Christianity's great and early ideologue, the man who shaped its legacy, who took a cluster of strange parables and sometimes gnomic statements and, emphasizing the apocalyptic, built them into a theology.
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Rather than merely preaching at his followers, the equivalent of a boring lecture or a talk with no slides, he used parables—relatable story chunks that relayed the message he wanted to teach.
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My younger son, Aidan, an absurdly optimistic fan, sent me an email in Rio to say that his crystal ball had gone on the fritz on Mets matters, offering only riddles and parables.
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And it's all the more ironic at a time when the Left and the media keep harping on cautionary tales like "1984" and "The Handmaids Tale" as parables in the Age of Trump.
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In songs such as "Parables" and "Achilles," the album carefully yet intentionally discusses issues such as the artist's queerness, religion, and past family trauma with an overall tone of healing and self-forgiveness.
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Mr Schulz ruminated on Europe; cracked folksy jokes; solemnly intoned about Germany's historical burden; cast his family, neighbours and acquaintances from the campaign trail as characters in a compendium of parables about the country.
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Before this project, I thought the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke included the same stories and parables, with just slightly different details, and each week at Mass the readings rotated between the four versions.
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A witty, oblique and mischievous storyteller, Arimah can compress a family history into a few pages and invent utopian parables, magical tales and nightmare scenarios while moving deftly between comic distancing and insightful psychological realism.
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But somewhere between the two, he came across as the knight of the roundtable in your best mate's flat, dispensing nightlife parables and high-street narratives to a congregation of wide-eyed straight-through-ers.
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"Ctrl" emerged as one of the year's most critically acclaimed albums and became a talisman for young women, particularly young women of color, who saw themselves in its unflinching parables of sexual liberation and emotional liability.
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Descended from Kafka by way of Camus and Beckett, these books are existential parables about the absurdity of the writer's life, calling attention to their own artificiality and grafted onto the apparatus of hardboiled detective fiction.
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When she mentioned parables, I used the opening to ask her religious beliefs, only to have her tell me that, while she's "into robot Jesus," she's also "not really so into theology" and bored with the subject.
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For example, there are still people who treat the myths of religion, like the Genesis story, as some kind of literal truth, even though they were understood by Jewish thinkers and theologians of the time as parables.
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A long time ago, before he wrote the 50th Law, a book which interweaved his life story with parables of Socrates and Dostoyevsky, 50 Cent took some stimulus from Crime and Punishment for his Brit Awards performance.
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Essentially a perfect pop hit, "Beat Your Heart Out" embodies all the silliness that comes with an inflated crush; Dalle switches from speaking in parables and gallows imagery to cliché ("Baby, you make my heart beat faster").
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In recent years he is best known for allegedly paying MMA stars to be seen with him and for spouting nonsensical buddhist parables while trying to keep down the food he has been forcing down his gullet.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the Romero zombie movies could be read as anxious warnings about the communist takeover, but they were also parables about American conformity: the dead groupthink of consumerism and Red Scare anti-communism.
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Amy-Jill Levine is the author of "Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi," and a professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and College of Arts and Sciences.
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While there are many parables about her mercurial ways—according to legend, she once killed the friend of her sister Hiʻiaka for taking too long to run an errand—the goddess never had it out for greedy tourists.
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National anxieties over the Space Race and the Red Scare in 1950s America converged into simple parables about suspicion and tolerance, like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and various Twilight Zone episodes.
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"Hated in the Nation," a Scandinavian-detective homage and 90-minute bee pun, neatly distills the season: It's not as hopeless as its darkest episodes, not as direct as its simpler parables, and it carries several thematic threads.
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In fact, one of Jesus's most famous parables, in Matthew 25, lists humans' willingness or failure to care for sick people as one of the chief criteria upon which they will be judged by God in the afterlife.
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The one-woman show — staged as a church service, complete with a sermon, the telling of parables, singing, and the breaking of the bread — recounts the story of Jesus Christ, living in the present as a trans woman.
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Then there was the Syrian rabbi from Deal, N.J., who was involved in a money-laundering scheme and whose parables were particularly enjoyed by Russian Jewish inmates from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, who were in prison for health care fraud.
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In this slim set of "flash fables" — prose pieces ranging in length from a few lines to a few paragraphs — Oz offers parables about human deceit, the pitfalls of dependence and metaphor-making and the vagaries of time and politics.
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He can also be irresistibly fun, with a big taste for Scotch, a gleam in his icy aqua eyes and a penchant for stem-winding parables that he will often stumble over but that will still make a strange kind of sense.
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It's the sort of perverse ending that would have delighted Angela Carter, who famously reworked Charles Perrault's fairy tales into feminist parables where Little Red gets in bed with the Wolf and Bluebeard is thwarted by his new bride's wily, gun-toting mother.
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Defending the President at the press podium, I felt I had no choice but to remind everyone of the power of parables -- a lame argument, to be sure, but the episode underscored for me the importance of truth telling in that White House.
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Join Josephine Livingstone, Alex Shephard, and Ryu Spaeth as they contribute their little drop to the ocean of Game of Thrones content, which this week will feature a kiss of death, political parables, and a rare defense of Bran Stark becoming king.
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He said the dialogue and parables recounted in the movie - including that of a hitman who goes to jail and then finds love when he is out - are based on true stories and are acted by the people who lived those experiences.
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His first book, "Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain (University of Chicago Press, 2015)," studies the history of forced conversion in sixteenth century Spain, as well as debate about its legacy and meaning for us today.
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In Fady Joudah's "The Scream," an ordinary morning in the life of a parent dropping his son off at school assumes mythic proportions: A typical altercation between two kindergartners escalates into a conflict as elemental and disturbing as the parables in Genesis.
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This year it will offer three shows: Caryl Churchill's "The After-Dinner Joke," a collection of short scenes about charitable giving from a series favorite; Howard Barker's "The Possibilities," four parables from another Potomac darling; and "Brecht on Brecht," a theatrical collage.
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In this, it replicates one of the things that attract fans to sport in the first place: the seemingly simple trajectory, the clear successes and failures, the dates with destiny that blowhard commentators dress up as modern parables of character and courage.
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Morgan excels at straight prose—you could carve four or five realist novellas out of "The Sport of Kings"—but she makes use of many other forms: sermons, textbooks, rules, excerpts from other works (real and invented), Socratic dialogues, flashbacks, parables, stage plays.
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The troupe returned to New York this fall with a five-alarm, viscerally charged tour through the past and present of the art of resistance in Eastern Europe, from Dostoevsky's parables of self-laceration to the fabled protest performances of Pussy Riot.
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Where many great acts on that circuit have a tendency of planting themselves as soldiers in an ages old war for souls, warning of slippery slopes and potentially grave ramifications for tiny missteps like little parables, Coloring Book is testimony but not necessarily evangelism.
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The only answer, Zhivago realizes, is to escape politics altogether and seek a "new way of living and new form of society, which is born of the heart, and which is called the Kingdom of Heaven," and rests in the truth of Christ's timeless parables.
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OAF newcomer Jacqueline Bishop of Antillean, will show work by the Jamaicans Sane Mae "Mama Laine" Dunkley, who makes richly textured mats and tapestries, and Kemel Leeford Rankine, whose enamel-on-sheet-metal signs record local proverbs and parables, and depict Jamaica's national heroes.
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To show how far we've fallen since the first days of running water, he offers us three parables of contemporary failure—Fyre Festival, Theranos, and Uber, all potential iterations of the Next Big Thing that turned out to be unprofitable or fraudulent, mere facsimiles of innovation.
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" He sees these films as "parables of a phase of the development of consciousness at which the struggle is for the reciprocity or equality of consciousness between a woman and a man," which is a nice way to describe "Top Hat" and the rather different "La La Land.
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As noted in a Lexington column at the time, he had the talent of using parables to tell conservatives that they can have something they already want—much lower taxes and a radically smaller government—and that, with "smart people" in charge, there will be no trade-offs, and indeed benefits for the poor.
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There are an exhaustive deluxe six-CD version with every surviving take and a one-CD compilation of alternate versions of the album's 10 songs plus one that was omitted, "Up to Me." The songs from "Blood on the Tracks" are artfully multifaceted: romances, travelogues, tall tales, parables and possibly memories, all at once.
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And it is here that we arrive, perhaps, at a final irony: If Kafka's fictions have often been read as parables of belatedness, non-arrival and perpetual deferment, there are other ways — most notably, the genuine, if fraught, multiculturalism of his literary imagination and conception of selfhood — in which he still remains ahead of us, pointing a direction forward.
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From the violent drug dealer parables of Biggie and Jay Z to the eventual trap house bluntness of Gucci Mane and Migos, the explicit nature of the thematic content broadened as it grew bolder, and with it came an acceptance of criminality by a mainstream made up largely of people that never knew or grew up in that life.
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Wrote Chicago Reader's Jonathan Rosenbaum of the full trilogy in 1998: All three works are sustained meditations on singular landscapes and the way ordinary people live in them; obsessional quests that take on the contours of parables; concentrated inquiries that raise more questions than they answer; and comic as well as cosmic poems about dealing with personal and impersonal disaster.
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Playlist: "Shivers" / "Friends Of My World" / "Release The Bats" / "Zoo Music Girl" / "Nick The Stripper" / "Loose (from the Peel Sessions)" / "Dead Joe" / "Cry" / "Sonny's Burning" / "A Dead Song" / "Mutiny In Heaven" I argue this working under the assumption that, at their core, "you should smile more" and puppy-in-Heaven parables aside, most people know that they are going to die.
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Post-apocalyptic novels often resemble modernized, cynical variants on the Western, parables about society told at the scale of hardened individuals roaming inhospitable terrain — but VanderMeer's foregrounds the revolutionary potential of caring for others, focusing on the relationship between Rachel, a woman who survives by scavenging a city ravaged by the activities of a nefarious biotech company, and the motile, plant-like, vase-like creature that she finds on one of her expeditions.
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"Aquarius" (from Kleber Mendonça Filho); "Autumn" and "The Dreamer" (Nathaniel Dorsky); "Bagatelle II" (Jerome Hiler); "Certain Women," especially Kristen Stewart (Kelly Reichardt); "Creepy" (Kiyoshi Kurosawa); "The Fits" (Anna Rose Holmer); "The Illinois Parables" (Deborah Stratman); "Into the Inferno" (Werner Herzog); "Jackie" and "Neruda" (Pablo Larraín); "Krisha" (Trey Edward Shults); "La La Land," if mostly its finale (Damien Chazelle); "Loving" (Jeff Nichols); "Mountains May Depart" (Jia Zhangke); "Paterson" (Jim Jarmusch); "Sunset Song" (Terence Davies); "20th Century Women" (Mike Mills).
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For instance, my collection of stories titled Samuel Johnson Is Indignant contains fifty-six pieces, including what could roughly be described as meditations; parables or fables; an oral history with hiccups; an interrogation about jury duty; a traditional, though brief, story about a family trip; a diary about thyroid disease; excerpts from a bad translation of a poorly written biography of Marie Curie; a fairly traditional narrative about my father and his furnace, though ending in an accidental poem; and, scattered through the book, brief prose pieces of just one or two lines as well as one or two pieces with broken lines.
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