It tells the Hanukkah story as a Zionist parable with a typical Guthriec(ph) little guy slant.
Five years ago it was an apocryphal story but I'm afraid today it's a parable.
Yeah, one game that comes to mind is a very strange mod, called The Stanley Parable.
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The narrative unfolds in a solemn, glum, stately manner more like a Biblical parable than like a crazy backwoods folktale.
In his parable, prisoners are chained in a cave and only perceive the world as shadows on the wall.
It would be possible I'm sure it has been attempted to read "The Stranger" as a parable of impending upheaval in Algeria.
One was iconography a scholarly approach that treated the standard Renaissance or 17th-century art work as a learned parable or visual puzzle.
The problem is that the parable is not about Obama or Bernanke or Summers or any other frail, flawed, limited human being.
The fact that an intervening century has replaced France and Germany with China and India seems an appropriate parable for our times.
It's a psychodrama with the epic scale of an Old Testament parable.
"A Message to Garcia" is a parable of heroic initiative and duty, very loosely based on events during the Spanish-American War of 1898.
There is something fundamental about the Once-ler and the ruin caused by his blinkered endeavor, something beyond a mere parable of environmental degradation.
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To Obama, the old order of securities created by contracts freely entered into is like the "house built on sand" in Jesus' parable.
That the gold turned out to be illusory made the saga seem even more of a parable about the consequences of unbridled greed.
The resurrection of this ironic parable serves as a chilling reminder of the valiant spirits lost in the unthinkable human destruction of the Holocaust.
We are meant to see this as a solemn parable of belief of its capacity both to grow without rational evidence and to fester without cause.
Inspiration came from the parable of the talents, in which Jesus tells the story of a man who entrusts money to his servants, he said.
Like the good older son in the Biblical parable, they resent how voters are willing to take Gingrich back and even make him their leader.
As the story of Clementi has become a popular parable of teen-age good and evil, that yellow-toned photograph has become an icon of adolescent distress.
His parable of the virgins in Mat 25:1-12 ENCAPSULATES Jewish beliefs.
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"A Tale of Music" draws on this history to tell a disturbing parable about an artist's willing self-abnegation in the service of the Great Leader.
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Rebuilding is expected to provide a major boost to GDP, though pace the parable of the broken window, the statistics may mask the economic damage.
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So even the apparently simple parable of Herr Puntila reveals the conflicting strands of human nature and the inability of fallen man to become whole again.
The Rt Rev Nicholas Reade will compare her visit to "a parable of hope at times of national and international crises" in his Easter Sunday sermon.
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He combined contemporaneous political issues with elements from a Chinese parable and the story of the judgment of Solomon, in which two women claim the same child.
In this parable a mischievous boy breaks a shopkeeper's window.
Then you have the parable of the Golden Goose.
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Ms Showalter does not attempt to unravel the intractable moral and legal conundrums raised by this unsettling parable, but she uses it as a metaphor to ask questions about literary judgment.
For me, as a Christian, one of the most important of these teachings is contained in the parable of the Good Samaritan, when Jesus answers the question, 'Who is my neighbour?
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