| Wodehouse was essentially a fabulist, one who attempts to convey essential truths through fantasy. |
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| He was a virtuoso fabulist, whose literary hoaxes and counterfeits verged on pastiche. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| The story itself is inspired by a legendary 18 th-century fabulist whose name has become synonymous with delusional behavior. |
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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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| Though a self-proclaimed Australian writer, Carey is a fabulist who does not write in any recognizable national tradition. |
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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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| 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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| As we said about Mr Pressibus, the association Pressibus want to gather in France the few fans who revere the great fabulist. |
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| In the 1970s and 1980s she was at the forefront of fabulist or magical narrative work. |
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| Jobs's extraordinary marketing savvy and famed reality distortion field leave some people with the impression that he's a talented fabulist. |
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| The two pigeons of the fabulist who « adored each other with tender love » are well and truly brothers. |
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| From there stemmed the idea of a fabulist, a man who lives in this alternate reality. |
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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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| In creating his own life as fabulist digression, he flees, both narratively and psychically, from the haunting of his unfulfilled life. |
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| She also aligns herself with an admirable American tradition of poetic activism, her most immediate foremother being the passionate nature writer and fabulist, Annie Dillard. |
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| Saunders is often called a surrealist, a fabulist or an allegorist, but his work contains a lot of recognisable reality, often in the form of people worrying about how to balance insufficient income and excessive expenditure. |
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| Phaedrus' treatment of them greatly influenced the way in which they were used by later writers, notably by the 17th-century French poet and fabulist Jean de La Fontaine. |
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| Like the fabulist, Giraudoux had wit to spare. |
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| The fabulist seems to want only to rant in his new monologue. |
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| To some I will always be a fabulist, a scoundrel, and a liar. |
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| It is still plausible that Trump, an entrenched bigot, a conspiracy fabulist, and a casual disparager of international alliances, could become President. |
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