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When employees found they would be unable to deliver on Abovitz’s vision, Magic Leap went from being one of the most intriguing tech startups outside of Silicon Valley to a parable about believing one’s own hype.

The anecdote is a perfect parable for the power and ignorance of artistic patrons.

He recounts a parable that has long been a staple of dairy farm folklore.

Expecting otherwise is enough to make one recite the parable of the Old Woman and the Snake.

What seems at first to be novel about gender inequity gradually reveals itself to be a parable about social class.

Equilateral can be read as a parable of the ways we blind ourselves through vanity, love, and greed.

The resurrection of Lazarus is a transparent fabrication out of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus.

So I have had to convey my precepts insensibly to Milord K.—to convey them in homeopathic doses of parable.

Here is Christianity with its marvellous parable of the Prodigal Son to teach us indulgence and pardon.

The moral of the parable of the ten talents is eminently true in matters of learning.

It 148 was rather the parable of family life that I read in this succession of fair faces and shapely bodies.