parable

The parable of a boy and a tree hit home.

I'd like to end my side our conversation with a parable.

The film, in the words of its director, is an African parable.

Her way of telling a parable is different from my father's.

And, let me just read you the, it's quite a short parable this one.

But these are old parables, and I came not to speak such things.

A similar message can been found in the parable of the strong man.

The film may work on them like a useful parable.

Much of it is written in parables, one after the other.

It was all going to be stories and parables for the rest of the day.

But that is not the ultimate point of my parable.

Many of those stories are almost parables in their meaning.

You ask a question, I said, to which a reply can only be given in a parable.

Parables are simple stories, easy both to listen to and understand.

I do not cite this to you by way of parable.

Often Christ's parables are a response to a question he is asked.

And this may be generalized, or taken as some kind of parable.

This parable was one of the most popular in medieval art.

She is the one who gives the parable of the five arrows.

The parable is the subject of much art, music, literature, and stage works.

It was a long while since he had heard the lantern parable from his mother.

This, then, takes farther the secret police parable of the first play.

Jesus makes the same point in his parable of the two builders.

This was my dream, not a lecture or a parable.

She has made a movie that is really a parable of today".