Sentences with phrase «moral fable»
A moral fable is a story that teaches a lesson or moral. It uses characters, usually animals, to illustrate important values and teach people how to behave ethically or make good choices in life. Full definition
It's easy enough to appreciate... as a painterly near - documentary, shot and edited by a director who got his start in documentary films... or a spacious moral fable about humility and trust in following the righteous path.
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This is intelligent filmmaking, and a provocative moral fable.
Our age has lost none of its appetite for fables of personal liberation, and it tends to side with the rebels Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, or with the precepts of Emersonian self - reliance, or with the antinomian moral fables offered repeatedly by movies.
In them both, Christian audiences see their ideals and worldviews spun into perfectly pat moral fables.
What remains memorable about this crowd - pleasing but shallow romantic comedy, viewed as a clever moral fable, is the breezy contemporary catchphrase Cruise uses of «show me the money.»
(Jarmusch) seems... to introduce gratuitous bloodshed that is out of sync with the engaging, offbeat tempo and dark, comedic moral fable that has come before.
The movie starts with «Time Out», a John Landis anti-racism moral fable that hangs a pall over the rest of the film given the infamous helicopter accident.
Though Mr Fox is clearly the hero of the piece, the film itself is a complex moral fable about the anxieties that come from just trying to survive in this harsh world, especially the undermining shame that's felt from not being able to feed your own family.
Both are dark moral fables that play Paxton's evident decency against Thornton's cracker stupidity and meanness until both eventually pull back to discover other, contradictory values in their characters.
Lauded as a witty moral fable with a revelatory performance from its star, this romantic comedy is in fact meretricious, manipulative and reactionary.
Vera Nazarian is a two - time Nebula Award Nominee and member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, a writer and reader with a penchant for moral fables and stories of intense wonder, true love, and intricacy.
Comment: The Society of Others is part intellectual adventure and part moral fable, overlaid with profound philosophical insight.
The play that year was a new interlude, The Trial of Treasure, a heavy - handed moral fable with the gorgeously robed actors portraying the vices and virtues of mankind.
Still, this is intelligent filmmaking, and a provocative moral fable.
Key words in the account of Amnon's rape of Tamar remind the reader of the temptation in the garden, but the story is more than a moral fable; it also criticizes David's political strategies.
Seamless noir mystery, moral fable and, yes, Disney animal cartoon, Zootopia is the best animated film of the year.
This Noah focuses on a moral fable.
The movie is also a moral fable about how anger, violence and vengeance tend to repeat themselves.
Written with the pace and thrust of a thriller, this is a stunning intellectual adventure, a moral fable bursting with art, poetry, music, and profound philosophical insight.
Written with a pace and thrust of a thriller, The Society of Others is a stunning intellectual adventure, a moral fable bursting with art, poetry, music, and profound philosophical insight.
From the book jacket: Written with the pace and thrust of a thriller, this is a stunning intellectual adventure, a moral fable bursting with art, poetry, music, and profound philosophical insight.
Somehow, commerce and conservatism produced the Young British Artists, with their mix of cynicism, shock art, and moral fables.