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Recent Examples of exemplum
In 2013, the Italian playwright Stefano Massini turned this exemplum into The Lehman Trilogy, an epic five-hour play that was adapted and condensed last year by the director Sam Mendes and playwright Ben Power for the National Theatre in London.
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Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2019
Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exemplum
Noun
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The parable of the Good Samaritan is Jesus specifically rejecting the idea of limiting compassion to one’s own group.—
John Fugelsang
September 12,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025
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Throughout, in interviews with Costa, Malafaia justifies his political aspiration with Biblical parables.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Lawrence is sparing in his style, the image desaturated like a vintage photograph, locating this fable in an unspecified future and past.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
11 Sep. 2025
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The Last Viking, the latest collaboration between Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen and his longtime muses Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, is a wild, darkly comic fable about brotherhood, identity and the limits of sanity.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Interior Design Reimagined with AI A recent anecdote is helpful to appreciate what’s now possible.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Hayden Panettiere is one of those actors who everyone seems to have an anecdote about; specifically, about how her filmography has resonated in their life.—
Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Viewed in this light, the old narrative of 1066 and its aftermath has much to recommend it.—
Will Collins,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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Financials & Outlook Nevertheless, the fundamentals present a more complicated narrative.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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