How To Use Fabulist In A Sentence
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He is new to the mystery field, but he has published numerous stories he terms "fabulist" that range from speculative fiction to fantasy to quiet atmospheric horror.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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This whole sequence has a weird kind of fabulistic dream-logic or non-logic to it...
Week 39: Like Something That Seeks Its Level
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The story itself is inspired by a legendary 18 th-century fabulist whose name has become synonymous with delusional behavior.
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There are fibbers, fabricators and feckless fabulists.
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He was a virtuoso fabulist, whose literary hoaxes and counterfeits verged on pastiche.
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He belongs, like Borges and a handful of others, to that sacred sect of storytellers (one part sorcerer, one part shaman, one part shape-shifter, one part fabulist) that seem to write in the invisible ink of dream.
Italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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A subversive Cytherean imagery was next taken up by the poet and fabulist Jean de La Fontaine, friend to Scudery and admirer of Marino.
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Bialik finds several reasons why his sloppy sourcing was allowed to go on for so long, and writes that there are four conditions that allow fabulists within journalism to work undetected.
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The Italian fabulist's book sets up a series of interrupted narratives that it doesn't take up.
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I spot a guy heading for the door who looks exactly like the fabulist Stephen Glass, but it turns out his name is Mike and he's come with his fiancée, Melissa, 32.
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Archilochus, the Greek fabulist, once said, "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
Handicapping Apple, Facebook And Google
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In fact, in the design of the remembrancing program, Hanuman had solicited the aid of both a cartoonist and a master fabulist.
THE BROKEN GOD
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He portrays himself as a victim in The Fabulist and presents easily identifiable co-workers as the ass, the flunky, and the backstabber.
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He portrays himself as a victim in The Fabulist and presents easily identifiable co-workers as the ass, the flunky, and the backstabber.
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In a best-selling 1686 confection, "Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds," French fabulist Bernard le Bovier Fontenelle describes Venusians as "little black people, scorch'd with the Sun, witty, full of Fire, very Amorous," while their glum counterparts on Jupiter "are so very grave, that were Cato living among 'em, they would think him a merry Andrew.
The Loneliest Planet
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In this regard, it falls within the realist camp of Symbolism, as opposed to the fabulistic strain represented by the plays of Maurice Maeterlinck.
Incarnating the World Within
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Computers, the Web, and this news database make it much easier to expose plagiarists and fabulists whose crimes would have gone undetected in 1966.
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I tend to read very unusual fiction - horror, dark fantasy, slipstream and "fabulist" or "New Weird", and anything that touches on gender, race and sexual issues.
INTO THIS MIND -- Opening Chapters
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Thus, though the happenings in postmodernist fiction seem fabulist, it is clear that the writers have one foot in contingent reality.
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A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon.
Manhood for Amateurs: Summary and book reviews of Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon.
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He was a virtuoso fabulist, whose literary hoaxes and counterfeits verged on pastiche.
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With offbeat androgynous heroes, reworked fairy tales, and stories within stories, follow-up novels like The Passion established Winterson as a European-style fabulist with an international fan base.
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It would be disingenuous to call The Family Fang straightforward, but the novel isn't fantastical, non-literal, fabulistic, etc., as many of your short stories have been.
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This shunting aside of the realists in favor of the fabulists has different effects on different industries at different times.
Boing Boing
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They were words and pictures that a fabulist had put together.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Fontaine will feel that Gay the fabulist is a writer whose work the world has let die very willingly indeed.
Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation
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You are a novelist, a film director, a fabulist.
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At the heart of his masterful Elegy for Kosovo, the Albanian fabulist Ismail Kadare places the poignant tale of two fourteenth-century minstrels joined in flight.
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In any event, as part of Samaniego's preferred verse form, it presents a particular challenge to the translator attempting to capture the Spanish fabulist's peculiar character, whatever the target language.
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For instance, I wonder if - I doubt there are more plagiarists and fabulists in journalism today than there were in the past.
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For here is the genius of the Welsh fabulists in 21 compact episodes; where intense silliness, moral rigour, cavalier experiments and unforgettable tunes meet and make magic.
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It emerged in court that he is a habitual fabulist and liar with a weak grip on reality and a determination to live out some of his fantasies.
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It is not, to use a rather nebulous term, the "best" book about wine I've read -- that distinction rests with Neal Rosenthal's Reflections of a Wine Merchant -- but it reads like fabulous and fabulist fiction, and that's a real credit to the author, considering it's not fiction at all.
Book Reviews
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We might say more accurately that he is a fabulous second-order fabulist - which is another way of saying that his own characters tell better stories than he does.
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Alas: these archetypes we revere wouldn't last a day in a modern newspaper - they were profane, drunken, nihilistic fabulists more concerned with the cards in their hands than the truth on the page.
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Wodehouse was essentially a fabulist, one who attempts to convey essential truths through fantasy.
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With an eye ever open for the absurdity of her vocation, Mr. Gottlieb steers us through a thicket of fictions and half-truths about Sarah, many of them perpetrated by the "relentless fabulist" herself.
Actress, Seductress
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These fabulist authors have gone even further by establishing themselves as an ‘institution’ that is juxtaposing its narrative form in contradistinction to the common banal discourse of society.
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Dennis Tito won't have the amenities envisioned by some science-fiction fabulists such as a stellar hotel suite or stopping off for a space snack at an orbiting fast-food restaurant.
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I'm hoping this Dancing-with-the-Scars dark fairy tale -- for it feels like Aronofsky has gone back to the fabulistic Germanic roots of the original Swan Lake narrative -- does not really mean the only fix for good girls is just a dose of self-stimulation with a bit of Sappho and the boss on the side which rebounds on us anyway, in the end.
Patricia Zohn: CultureZohn: Black Swan , Or Letting Your Inner Bad Girl Out
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Stevenson, too, tends to run his characters into symbols -- his moralist-fabulist determinations are too much for him -- he would translate them into a kind of chessmen, moved or moving on
Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial
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One of the many writers Bloom champions is Italo Calvino, the Italian fabulist who died in 1985.
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Zunun Kadir, the famous writer, playwright and fabulist, was the founder and the pioneer of the contemporary Uighur literature.
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None of the stories are precisely those of Aesop, and none have the concinnity, terseness, and unmistakable deduction of the lesson intended to be taught by the fable, so conspicuous in the great Greek fabulist.
Fables
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Of course, a reader doesn't have to accept the essays' religiose atmospherics or fabulist presumption to be affected by Berger's tone.
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I don't agree with Shannon Rupp's assertion that it's easier for the ‘ethically challenged ‘journalist to thrive today - it's just that more fabulists are getting caught.’
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In these days of fabulists, journalists must earn public trust by keeping the ‘non’ in ‘non-fiction.’
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Brooks could never be called a fabulist, if for no other reason, because he sidesteps the problem altogether by writing about archetypes instead of real people.
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Though a self-proclaimed Australian writer, Carey is a fabulist who does not write in any recognizable national tradition.
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With spectacular costumes and makeup, and an unerring feel for lighting and composition, Christensen creates a startling nightmare world of bizarre imagery that is highly reminiscent of medieval fabulists such as Bosch.
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He was an awkward kind of fabulist, a tease who directed his subtle ironies as much at his readers as at his cats and foxes.
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Like all the best fabulists he had no illusions about life's underlying harshness.
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The Children's Hospital, a sprawling and impassioned morality tale in which a catastrophe of biblical scale wipes out nearly all life, human and otherwise, on Earth
despite its weaknesses, The Children's Hospital establishes Chris Adrian as a remarkable American fabulist in the tradition of Melvin Jules Bukiet and Tony Kushner, writers who define and confront the terrifying moral choices of a new century.
The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian: Book summary
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There are fibbers, fabricators and feckless fabulists.
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But because its Aleksandar Hemon, the stories extend far beyond the immigrant experience; each one is punctuated with unexpected humor and spins out in fabulist, exhilarating directions, ultimately building to an insightful, often heartbreaking conclusion.
Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon: Book summary
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I'm hoping this Dancing-with-the-Scars dark fairy tale--for it feels like Aronofsky has gone back to the fabulistic Germanic roots of the original Swan Lake narrative--does not really mean the only fix for good girls is just a dose of self-stimulation with a bit of Sappho and the boss on the side which rebounds on us anyway, in the end.
Patricia Zohn: CultureZohn: Black Swan , Or Letting Your Inner Bad Girl Out