apologue , also: apolog old use

Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue.

Length is not an essential matter in the definition of an apologue.

Well it's a poor apologue, I agree," he said, "and a sorry kind of note to leave on.

And like the apologue, the parable expresses a moral lesson.

An apologue is generally dramatic, and has been defined as "a satire in action."

This apologue is not in the least more fantastic than the facts of the Teutonic claim.

An apologue differs from a parable in several respects.

Such an apologue is literally no exaggeration of the facts of English history.

And here, Socrates, I will leave the apologue and resume the argument.

As with the parable, the apologue is a tool of rhetorical argument used to convince or persuade.

The film mixes comedy and political apologue.

The apologue is a type of fable which is intended to express a simple moral lesson.

Like the apologue, the parable generally relates a single, simple, consistent action, without a great deal of circumstantial detail.

However, unlike the apologue, the parable is a realistic story that seems inherently probable and takes place in a familiar setting of life.

There was also a premiere, "Apologue," by the group's artistic director, Kenneth Topping.

Heavenly apologue, is it not?

For example the characters in a parable are exclusively human, whereas the characters in an apologue may be animals or plants or other natural phenomena.

It is noteworthy that the two fathers of apologue in the West were slaves, namely Aesop and Phaedrus.

Shall I, as an elder, speak to you as younger men in an apologue or myth, or shall I argue out the question?

The parable can be distinguished from other narrative types which have a moral content, such as the apologue and the allegory, although this distinction has not always been clear.

An apologue is distinguished from a fable in that there is always some moral sense present in the former, which there need not be in the latter.

L'Ingénu is a mix of genres; it shares characteristics with the conte philosophique, the apologue and the novel.

Mr. Topping's new "Apologue," which uses the Graham vocabulary selectively, might seem like still another piece about AIDS.

He illustrates his theory by an apologue "Fiscalité au Bollinger, A French tale of taxation and champagne in the 21st century".

An Italian fabulist, Corti, is said to have developed an apologue of "The Talking Animals" reaching twenty-six cantos.