fabulist

1 In her harrowing, boldly imagined novel, O’Brien both explores Irish provincial life and offers an unsettling fabulist vision.

2 He’s been perceived as too studiedly macho, too careerist, a serial exaggerator if not an outright fabulist.

3 Ms. Jones and Mr. Cannavale said they had largely avoided that kind of attention from fabulists.

4 The other directors are devotees of cinéma vérité; Herzog is a fabulist, famous for inserting made-up facts and scenes into his documentaries at every turn.

5 Machado’s debut collection is a wild thing, blazing with the influence of fabulists from Angela Carter to Kelly Link, borrowing from science fiction, queer theory and horror.

6 As the sinuous sentences unfold, aphorism following insight, metaphor converted into syllogism, we realize Proust is as rigorous a thinker as he is fabulist, heir to Descartes, companion to Freud.

7 Honesty is the best policy. -aesop, ancient Greek fabulist.

诚实是最好的策略。—伊索，古希腊寓言作家。

8 In his letters, he styles himself both "the fabulist Calvino" and "the realist Calvino": which was the real one?

9 We watched serial fabulist George Santos portray Charlie Brown in the back row.

10 Wanda’s particular predicament, hiding her magical powers from her ordinary neighbors, seems more the stuff of a 1960s fabulist comedy, à la “Bewitched.”

11 This novel, based on the life of the celebrity fiction writer, fabulist and professional oddball Jerzy Kosinski, has a light touch but manages to lift heavy subjects.

12 Perhaps this is a way to stay away from politics: to be a fabulist, but not to be taken so seriously.

13 My only dissatisfaction is Cercas’s recurrent attempt to draw a parallel between Marco’s imposture and that other Spanish fabulist Don Quixote, who also lied to become the hero of his fantasies.

14 Buying ice cream one day at the grocery store, she saw her photo on the cover of The Globe, the British fabulist paper, identified as the former president’s new paramour.

15 He was also a savvy entrepreneur and fabulist who, despite being illiterate and shunned by the Catholic Church, carved out a life soothsaying and healing ailing neighbors.

16 It’s been a long process of trying to recuperate slavery from the fabulists who wanted to sentimentalize slavery.

17 Barlow was well aware of his tendency but did not think of himself as a liar, merely a fabulist.

18 a once highly admired journalist whose reputation is now that of a disgraced fabulist

19 This is Aesop, the fabulist ( 寓言家 ), the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships,” He says.

这是寓言家伊索的观点，他经常从动物及动物之间的关系的角度讲述那些迷人的小故事。”Soupios 说。

20 Yet this is no typical fall-from-power-through-hubris narrative or fabulist cautionary tale.

1 讲故事的人

teller storyteller

2 撒谎者

fabricator

3 说谎者

liar storyteller fabricator shammer

4 寓言作家

allegorist