(n.) A comparison; a similitude; specifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ.
(v. t.) To represent by parable.
Example Sentences:
(1) IIRR has also used humorous anecdotes and parables as educational devices.
(2) So also do parables drawn from actual cases and used as personalized narrative projective tests.
(3) With a back catalogue including Mexican road movie Y Tu Mama Tambien, dystopian near-future parable Children of Men and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Cuarón has been nominated for Oscars before, but not in this category.
(4) While he gets his beard trimmed – a painstaking process that takes 45 minutes and involves an Afro comb the size of a garden rake – Rick dishes out a little parable about how to deal with paparazzi in light of Alec Baldwin's recent decision to quit public life (and New York) after one too many run-ins.
(5) Stories are not only a matter of plots, or of conclusions or denouements, any more than they are moral lessons or parables in fancy dress.
(6) And yet the reason the judges gave the prize to Catton, rather than to either of the two other serious contenders – Jim Crace's parable of land and dispossession, or Colm Tóibín's spare, shocking portrait of the Virgin Mary – must be for its investigation into what a novel is, and can be.
(7) The logic of the specific-effects approach to treatment evaluation is first illustrated by a hypothetical example (the Minefield Parable), and it is then suggested that the approach is appropriate for the evaluation of any treatment, be it physical, psychological, or some complex combination.
(8) The parable of the frog and tadpoles ridiculed the false hopes that encourage the acceptance of inequality.
(9) The expansive, leisurely poems in the new collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, by Louise Glück, are interspersed with one-paragraph prose-poems – miniature parables often framed as personal anecdotes, like this week's choice, A Work of Fiction.
(10) Chelsea's shafting of Ranieri is the most brazen parable of everything that is vile in modern football.
(11) And what's happening to reefs is a parable of what is going to happen to everything else."
(12) Asked what he expected of the papal visit to Britain in 1982, he told the following parable.
(13) With the Falklands war sending Thatcher back into power in 1983, followed swiftly by the defeat of the miners' strike, there was a general sense on the British theatrical left that now was the time to "get real" - to oppose the Thatcher regime with more directly relevant drama than the parables of injustice in which Bond seemed to be dealing.
(14) On Renaissance, you'll find politics, war parables, mellifluous metaphors, a keen sense of humour and a brilliant backdrop of Tribe-ish beats by himself and the deceased J Dilla.
(15) It certainly doesn't demand to be read as a parable of the victimisation of women by medical patriarchs."
(16) now treat these horrors as parables or myths, which is just as well.
(17) Indeed, from what's emerged so far, the story of Madonna and the unbuilt school has all the elements of a modern parable about the failure of top-down development projects.
(18) In the parable, the inventor of writing – the Egyptian god Theuth – boasts to King Thamus that his innovation would make people wiser and improve their memories.
(19) There is another paradox in the fact that Plato put the parable in the mouth of the last great Greek oral philosopher, whose ideas he had chosen to put down in writing.
(20) The first film is a tender gay parable in which Luke falls in love with Alec Guinness and gradually "comes out" as a Jedi.
Represent
Definition:
(v. t.) To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.
(v. t.) To portray by pictoral or plastic art; to delineate; as, to represent a landscape in a picture, a horse in bronze, and the like.
(v. t.) To portray by mimicry or action of any kind; to act the part or character of; to personate; as, to represent Hamlet.
(v. t.) To stand in the place of; to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of; to speak and act with authority in behalf of; to act the part of (another); as, an heir represents his ancestor; an attorney represents his client in court; a member of Congress represents his district in Congress.
(v. t.) To exhibit to another mind in language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of; to bring before the mind; to set forth; sometimes, to give an account of; to describe.
(v. t.) To serve as a sign or symbol of; as, mathematical symbols represent quantities or relations; words represent ideas or things.
(v. t.) To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.
(v. t.) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something which was originally apprehended by direct presentation). See Presentative, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(2) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(3) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
(4) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
(5) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(6) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(7) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(8) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
(9) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(10) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
(11) Measurement of urinary GGT levels represents a means by which proximal tubular disease in equidae could be diagnosed in its developmental stages.
(12) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(13) The penicillin-resistant Enterococcus hirae R40 has a typical profile of membrane-bound penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) except that the 71 kDa PBP5 of low penicillin affinity represents about 50% of all the PBPs present.
(14) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(15) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(16) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(17) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
(18) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
(19) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
(20) The blockade of H2 receptors is the primary action of these drugs; however, they possess also secondary actions which may represent untoward effects but in some cases may be actually useful (increase in prostaglandin synthesis, inhibition of LTB4 synthesis, etc.)