moral fables

In any case moral fables have to be very carefully constructed, or they may prove dangerous to those who use them.

The title character, also called the Gaviero, or lookout, becomes an actor in contemporary moral fables.

He also wrote Moral Fables in Verse.

He is highly idealistic and loves to tell moral fables of the ancient Gummis on every suitable occasion.

Before we left Mr. Merriam's shop, he showed us a slipcased set of tiny moral fables that he'd written and published himself.

The lurid chronicles of dissipation that stare out at us from every bookstore window are moral fables: they demonstrate the perils of genius.

He makes melodramas that are often very funny, fantasies that are common-sensical and moral fables that are perverse.

If you interpret these movies as moral fables, you might conclude that Hollywood storytelling favors the young over their elders, whom it tends to view as monsters.

"These, then, are oblique, ironic moral fables, and they are written in a spare, elegant and witty prose," Johanna Kaplan said here in 1981.

Ibn al-Muqaffa was also an accomplished scholar of Middle Persian, and was the author of several moral fables.

In the extended treatment by the 15th century Scottish poet Robert Henryson in his Moral Fables a picture of widespread social breakdown is depicted.

His most celebrated work was the "100 Moral Fables", valued as much for the beauty of his woodprints as for the verse and the interesting choice of subjects.

Yet another variation on the disguise theme was included in the Cento favole morali ("100 moral fables", 1570) of the Italian poet Giovanni Maria Verdizotti.

John Sanford, a novelist, historian and autobiographer who often focused his moral fables on the American heartland, especially the Adirondacks, died on March 6 in Santa Barbara, Calif.

The stories about him were not the moral fables or amusing tales that were told about the other Powers; they were horror stories, to be whispered around the fire after the children were asleep.

"Yes, those wickedly fascinating boys got me to go off with them," the pink robix confessed, "by promising me I could censor their poetry and write moral fables for newly-constructed robixes.

In works like "The Assistant," "The Magic Barrel" and "The Fixer," he borrowed from myth and folklore and transformed the stories of ordinary Jewish lives into moral fables.

No painted work can be attributed with certainty to him but, judging from the prints in his "100 Moral Fables" (Cento favole morali), his speciality was small landscapes with tiny figures.

Preceded by This is not a fable and followed by Supplement to the Voyage of Bougaineville, it forms a triptych of moral fables written in 1772 that would appear in the Literary Correspondence in 1773.

One of the earliest tellings of the Greek story in another European language was as Fable 31 in Giovanni Maria Verdizotti's "100 Moral Fables" (Cento favole morali, 1570).

The only sane interpretation of the Bible, as with the Koran, the Tibetan Book Of The Dead, and similar texts, is as a series of moral fables, metaphors for life to be applied imaginatively to the individual's own experience.

The Paddock and the Mouse is a poem by the 15th-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson and part of his collection of moral fables known as the Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian.

Speaking in Rome before a performance of a musical based on a children's story he wrote 30 years ago, Mr. Saramago, 81, said of children's tales: "They are moral fables that teach values which we consider indispensable, like solidarity, respect for others and goodness.

The Potter novels are, at once, detective stories (with Harry and his friends playing the roles of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew all at the same time), moral fables, coming-of-age chronicles and action adventure epics.