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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exemplum
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What kind of message would prime Jeezy have presented without the pyrex parables in tow?—
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The wordplay is as colorful as the sonics are sedate, tag-team player parables sailing over production seeking a slippery middle ground between East and West Coast throwback jams.—
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One of the toasts of Sundance, Cherien Dabis’s look at the life of a Palestinian family through the decades is a moral fable in the guise of an epic drama.—
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The film is a fable with a modern twist.—
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In another extraordinary anecdote, Chang describes hitchhiking her way across remote China to a labor camp her father was being held in, to lift his spirits.—
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Though no wedding plans have been publicly shared, Seehorn frequently posts photos alongside anecdotes of the couple's life together on social media.—
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The federal government’s narrative could not immediately be verified.—
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The title—The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars—suggests a coherent narrative.—
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