A mashal (Hebrew: משל) is a short parable with a moral lesson or religious allegory, called a nimshal. Mashal is used also to designate other forms in...

Look up mashʼal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mashal can refer to: Mashal (allegory), biblical parable or allegory Mashal, Iran, village in Gilan...

tales told by real MASH surgeons who were interviewed by the production team. Like the movie, the series was as much an allegory about the Vietnam War...

not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way". An allegory of Joseph Stalin, Napoleon is the leader of Animal Farm. Snowball – Napoleon's...

riff on the body horror that is puberty, Tiger Stripes is an exuberant allegory for personal agency as well as an impressive debut for writer-director...

vocalist Andrew Stockdale Close: Ferguson discusses Geoff Peterson as an allegory 1,067 April 12, 2010 (2010-04-12) Tim Gunn; former Drew Carey Show costar...

will no doubt relate to Purl". Proma Khosla, of Mashable, wrote that the film is "a transparent allegory for women trying to break the glass ceiling in...

or mind." Paul Taylor of The Independent called the topical political allegory "well-meaning but also melodramatic, incoherent and dreadfully superficial"...

it an "A", Ben Travers of IndieWire wrote, "Whether you invest in the allegory, character arcs, or both, 'Severance' hits its marks. [...] Erickson and...

their own mash and Snowball consented to this first act of inequity.” However, literary critic Jeffrey Meyers who reviewed the political allegories in Orwell’s...

mashups as allegories of citizen empowerment - Edwards - First Monday". First Monday. doi:10.5210/fm.v14i10.2617. Retrieved 12 May 2016. "Mash-up trailers...

film-making and a dream about dreams. Other critics read Inception as Christian allegory and focus on the film's use of religious and water symbolism. Yet other...

result, Will Ferrell's portrayal as the Mattel CEO was meant to be an allegory for corporate America. Kreiz praised Ferrell and said that while Mattel...

circles of hell. Professor Steve Macek interprets the unnamed city as an allegory for the hell in the Divine Comedy. Author Valerie Allen further explores...

Pixar's first hybrid stop-motion animation. Purl was praised by many as an allegory for gender inequality and feminism, which Meghan Mehta of Study Breaks...

business magnates. Calder McHugh of Politico described the film as "an allegory for all of us living with the omnipresent Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and...

best-known stories in the world. As a translation of the Hebrew word מָשָׁל‎, mashal, the word parable can also refer to a riddle. At all times in their history...

Service 527 Grimm Food: The world of the Brothers Grimm is full of culinary allegory, from poisoned apples and edible cottages to hungry wolves and starving...

directly spur Viéra into revolutionary action, the conversation is an allegory for Chernyshevsky's belief that socioeconomic conditions shape individuals...

Omegaverse is linked to queer theory or transidentity, despite containing allegories to gender identity and the female condition (Omegas, both male and female...

with themes of conformity versus rebellion, and makes use of Biblical allegory, including that of Adam and Eve and the rapture. Common criticism from...

Murphy of Variety panned the film as "a confusing melange of melodrama, allegory and limp polemic. The animation technique is excellent in a professional...

industrial technology. While Tolkien denied that The Lord of the Rings was an allegory, he stated that it could be applied to situations and described it as an...

theme is death and immortality. To those who supposed that the book was an allegory of events in the 20th century, Tolkien replied in the foreword to the Second...

imposing Hollywood industry in the 1920s. It has also been perceived as an allegory for the Great Depression in the United States, with Mickey's unrelenting...

of season one: "A typical episode relied on trite plot points, clumsy allegories, dry and stilted dialogue, or characterization that was taking too long...

front is mere conjecture, but Dacia was included in his coin series with allegories of the provinces. A controlled partial withdrawal of troops from the Dacian...

self-produced film. Featuring magical fantasy characters such as orcs as an allegory for racism, the film was critically panned upon its release in December...

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) show four burning spring rocker horses as the allegory of the Four Horsemen. In Tombstone (1993), during the opening in a Mexican...

Alison Herman wrote that it is the only episode that can not be read as an allegory. Jacob Stolworthy of The Independent suggested that it is the scariest...