fabulistic

Family events parallel the course of American history in an ingeniously fabulistic way.

The surreal blues of the sky and sea give the film a romantic, fabulistic look.

The environment is generically Eastern, stressing the play's fabulistic side.

Most of Mr. Murakami's stories have a fabulistic edge.

In his 1948 debut novel, "The Tunnel," these themes are already on display, but in a simplified, almost fabulistic form.

His "Peer Gynt" is a fabulistic folk tale filled with visual richness and an ebullient sense of comedy.

But Laxness has shaped his story with a free hand, and in the end "Iceland's Bell" is a fabulistic tale of two contrary immortals.

Different casts lend different tonalities, but the heartbeat that is so distinctively hers - fabulistic with a profound moral sense - remains intact.

There are indications in "A Burning Beach" that Mr. Machado is approaching fabulistic territory.

She started with Kafka, then shifted to Heironymus Bosch with her fabulistic tapestry, "The Garden of Earthly Delights."

The popularity of "Nineteen Eighty-Four," "Animal Farm" and "Brave New World," all speculative and a little fabulistic, may have made realistic novels of political dissent - of political discourse - seem tame and unworthy.

He was afraid of what she had become in those years away from him, years which had changed her, externally, to a giddy, fabulistic extent and left the former self more lonely, more isolated even than she had been in the solitary wildness of her youth.