The guest list is in itself a little parable of the state of American civic life at this time.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times observed, " It's a little surprising, although not boring, when it turns from a mystic travelogue into a feminist parable.

After relating the parable of the rich man who took away the one little ewe lamb of his poor neighbor ( II Samuel 12: 1-6 ), and exciting the king's anger against the unrighteous act, the prophet applied the case directly to David's action with regard to Bathsheba.

This would not be fair to the complexity of the problem of truth in art nor fair to Keats's little parable.

In 1970, Robin Williamson ( with little input from Heron ) attempted to fuse the music with his theatrical fantasies in a quixotic multi-media spectacular at London's Roundhouse called " U ", which he envisaged as " a surreal parable in dance and song ".

A classic example of how exacting and detailed oriented Yekkes can be, is in the following parable: A Yekke says to his wife on the evening of 4 December, " I'll be home from synagogue services a little late tonight.

With her eyes Dolores dared him for the truth, ready to begin: It's a little contest --

Even to herself Helva sounded a little self-pitying but the truth was she was lonely, sitting on the darkened field.

Writer Harriet Martineau, for example, wrote dubiously that, " the master presupposes his little pupils possessed of all truth ; and that his business is to bring it out into expression ".

" Robert Brough Smyth's Aborigines of Victoria of 1878 devoted ten pages to the bunyip, but concluded " in truth little is known among the blacks respecting its form, covering or habits ; they appear to have been in such dread of it as to have been unable to take note of its characteristics.

He sees his job as a journalist as an extension of his Superman responsibilities ; bringing truth to the forefront and fighting for the little guy.

Once the actors are onboard the Protector, they finally realize the truth, but Sarris prevents them from leaving, so they assume their television roles in order to save the Thermians, who have very little concept of deception, or the art of acting / theater.

This early interest in Heidegger followed Marcuse's demand for “ concrete philosophy ,” which, he declared in 1928, “ concerns itself with the truth of contemporaneous human existence .” These words were directed against the neo-Kantianism of the mainstream, and against both the revisionist and orthodox Marxist alternatives, in which the subjectivity of the individual played little role.

It is not common to believe in the detailed accuracy of the historical narrative and historians tend to see little to no historical truth behind the first few sagas, however, they are still seen by many as a valuable source of knowledge about the society and politics of medieval Norway.

Investment funds run by Investment managers who closely mirror the index in their managed portfolios and offer little " added value " as managers whilst charging fees for active management are called ' closet trackers '; that is they do not in truth actively manage the fund but furtively mirror the index.

Ultimate truth is chaos with little certainty.

While Patton has a reputation today as a senior general who was both impatient and impulsive, with little tolerance for officers who had failed to succeed on the battlefield, the truth is somewhat different.

There seems to be little evidence to back up any truth to these claims.

As there has been very little evidence to corroborate any one story, it seems that the truth may never fully be revealed.

I may say with truth, that in few countries so much is left to the share of the laborer, and so little exacted from him, or where there is more kind attention paid to him in sickness or infirmities of age.

In truth, there is often very little technical difference between the two classifications, and nomenclature is often a matter of tradition.

He knows how to value every successful effort to master truth ; how to look beyond the little things of science ... to the great things-God's handiwork as seen in nature, God's mind as shadowed in the workings of the minds of men.

Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose, who helped edit Other Losses, wrote I quarrel with many of your interpretations, I am not arguing with the basic truth of your discovery and acknowledged that Bacque had made a " major historical discovery ", in the sense that very little attention had hitherto been paid to the treatment of German POWs in Allied hands.

For the thorns of vanity and the tares of the passions make it to bear but little fruit in certain places and none in others, and with the increase in iniquity, some, opposing the truth of Thy Gospel by heresy, and others by schism, do fall away from Thy dignity, and rejecting Thy grace, the subject themselves to the judgment of Thy most holy word.

Lindsay had done little to dispel the myth that the story is based on truth, in many interviews either refusing to confirm it was entirely fiction, or hinting that parts of the book were fictitious, and others were not.

Whatever the truth of its claim, the pub is certainly diminutive, there being very little room for more than ten or fifteen customers to drink at any one time.

Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact.

* If there was a little more light and truth in the world through one human being, his life has had meaning.

Diane believed that a camera could be “ a little bit cold, a little bit harsh ” but its scrutiny revealed the truth ; the difference between what people wanted others to see and what they really did see – the flaws.

The nature of the opposition between liberals and Bourbons is too little understood in the North.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

There is little time for the men in the command centers to reflect about the implications of these clocks.

Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

The ambulance is drawn by two `` charming '' little horses.

That little spark is all the wealth I know, That little spark is my life's misery ''.

Its pretense to operate in the public interest is little more than a sham.

A man in a novel who is defeated in his childhood and condemned by unconscious forces within him to tiredly repeat his earliest failure in love, only makes us a little weary of man ; ;

It is the story of the hopeless love of a little boy for his cold and vain mother.

His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South, implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

Since the slogans have little application to reality and are sanctimonious to boot, the applause is faint even in areas of the world where we should expect to find the greatest affection for free government.

Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.

Perhaps this is not so little.

Trevelyan accepts Italian nationalism with little analysis, he is unduly critical of papal and French policy, and he is more than generous in assessing British policy.

To most observers, there is little doubt that he placed an artificial strait jacket of unity upon the years of Anne's reign which in reality existed only in the pages of his history.

Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.

The weight of fame and history is formidable, and dreary steel engravings in schoolbooks do little to quicken interest and imagination.