In keeping with the fabular simplicity of the original material, it hasn't any of the ultra-hip sheen of the Toy Story pictures or A Bug's Life, and does without the new Tarzan's elaborate depth of detail. |
The poems are alliterative, disjunctive, unpunctuated, fabular, and also political, based as they are on maps and their borders and flags. |
All the familiar tropes and tactics were in play: the unfolding of a crisis in the social margins, the fabular swiftness of the storytelling, a determined elision of frippery and fuss. |
Andrew Hagangan's book is set in the fabular fictive tradition of animals offering up razor-sharp perceptions on the often silly world of human beings. |
The fabular elements of Oyeyemi's imagination come into play here: for Snow, read Snow White. |
The new film follows a simpler and more fabular track, asking us not to question but to trust its authenticity. |