I presume, in the so-called Aesopian language, or, no matter what we said, we really meant its opposite. From Wordnik.com. [Statement at the Smith Act Trial] Reference
The second work of our poetess consists of a collection of fables, generally called Aesopian, which she translated into French verse. From Wordnik.com. [The Lay of Marie] Reference
I did an entire month online through Scholastic with kids writing Aesopian fables in rhyme. From Wordnik.com. [Awards: who needs 'em?] Reference
Nay, the Aesopian apologue even saith that certain petty country gents of the lower class, who had sold. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
In a tale with an Aesopian flavor, an ant who politely waits her turn for cake seems at first to lose but wins in the end. From Wordnik.com. [2010 January 09 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
Russia had censors and sent many journalists to Siberia, but in America Aesopian writing “for discerning readers” does not have that excuse. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Al-Qaeda in Iraq] Reference
There is Aesopian language, certainly; animadversions about western culture and traditional Chinese culture mask comments about political conditions. From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange on China] Reference
FRANK: No, but Marvin Kalb reviewed the book in the Boston Globe, and, by and large, he liked it, but in his Aesopian way, he said I was very unkind to some CBS people. From Wordnik.com. [Out of Thin Air: The Brief Wonderful Life of Network News] Reference
He argued that the "elements of fable are patently allegorical, like those of any Aesopian fable, and are represented in a fashion that calls for their interpretation in universal terms.". From Wordnik.com. [Radical Imaginings: Mary Shelley's The Last Man] Reference
This is wonderful, of course, but even this published mode enforces very short stories whose first priority seems to be the deliverance of an Aesopian moral (certainly not all, exceptions do exist). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-09-01] Reference
In a careful examination of these prose Aesopian fables, which had been handed down in various collections from the time of Maximus Planudes, Bentley discovered traces of versification, and was able to extract a number of verses which he assigned to Babrius. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
To back his Aesopian premise he also suggests that Stella Rimington was merely rambling on and apparently she doesn't understand the 'the genuine threat that new forms of terrorism pose' which kind of left me wondering whether the chutzpah of this man has an end. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
It may be, of course, that Peyser and his patient were using dreams and their glossing as an Aesopian language for the discreet trading of hints; as the psychoanalyst Judd Marmor observed long ago, patients in various styles of psychotherapy learn to edit their dream reports in ways that suit the theoretical expectations of their doctors. From Wordnik.com. [The Unknown Freud: An Exchange] Reference
Mr. Perry and I and our co-defendants will try, in the evidence we submit as this case progresses, to cut through the maze of what we consider misrepresentations in relation to Aesopian language, and to make it clear that what - that we say what we mean and we mean what we say, and that the language of Marxism-Leninism is not as mysterious or obscure as the Government attempts to make it sound. From Wordnik.com. [Statement at the Smith Act Trial] Reference
It has no correspondence with the pure Aesopian fable. From Wordnik.com. [Fables] Reference
The Aesopian beast-fable was a humble form of art peculiarly suited to a period of political and literary depression. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
In Aesopian terms, the sun represents Intel, the wind represents (for example) the Copenhagen summit on climate change. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Greece is portrayed as a picturesque Third World country, living the Aesopian carefree life of the cricket to the Germans 'ant. From Wordnik.com. [Dissident Voice] Reference
This was a noble effort to do honor to the great fabulist, and was the most perfect collection of Aesopian fables ever yet published. From Wordnik.com. [Fables] Reference
Thus, after an eclipse of many centuries, Babrias shines out as the earliest, and most reliable collector of veritable Aesopian Fables. From Wordnik.com. [Fables] Reference
This collection of Nevelet's is the great culminating point in the history of the revival of the fame and reputation of Aesopian Fables. From Wordnik.com. [Fables] Reference
Many of them lack that unity of design, that close connection of the moral with the narrative, that wise choice in the introduction of the animals, which constitute the charm and excellency of true Aesopian fable. From Wordnik.com. [Fables] Reference
Mary, therefore, imagined that she was really translating Aesop; but her original had the same title; and I am the more convinced of this, because, in the Royal MS. before cited, which contains a collection of Aesopian fables, there are but 56. From Wordnik.com. [The Lay of Marie] Reference
I find that, while James seems to be mocking the College's required PhD by describing the professor in question as a fox without the characteristic that makes him a fox, there is an easier metaphor to be used for this situation without the Aesopian undertones. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange] Reference
Then there's the conviction that anything but a withdrawal that would make molasses in January look like the hare of Aesopian fable -- at least two years in Iraq, five to ten in Afghanistan -- would endanger the planet itself, or at least its most important country: us. From Wordnik.com. [Countercurrents.org] Reference
This discovery attracted very general attention, not only as confirming, in a singular manner, the conjectures so boldly made by a long chain of critics, but as bringing to light valuable literary treasures tending to establish the reputation, and to confirm the antiquity and authenticity of the great mass of Aesopian Fable. From Wordnik.com. [Fables] Reference
Then there’s the conviction that anything but a withdrawal that would make molasses in January look like the hare of Aesopian fable -- at least two years in Iraq, five to ten in Afghanistan -- would endanger the planet itself, or at least its most important country: us. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Engelhardt: Yes, We Could... Get Out! Why We Won't Leave Afghanistan or Iraq] Reference
Mr. Stewart can be scathing in his dismantling of politicians’ spin — he took apart former Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith’s rationalizations about the Iraq war with Aesopian logic and fury — but there is nothing sensation-seeking or mean-spirited about his exchanges. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday Reading] Reference
"Such expressions as 'democracy,' 'equality,' 'freedom,' and 'justice' are merely the Party's Aesopian devices to impress noncommunists. From Wordnik.com. [KnoxViews -] Reference
The 'ainos,' as its name denotes, is an admonition, or rather a reproof veiled, either from fear of an excess of frankness, or from a love of fun and jest, beneath the fiction of an occurrence happening among beasts; and wherever we have any ancient and authentic account of the Aesopian fables, we find it to be the same. "l. From Wordnik.com. [Fables] Reference
The narrator draws no Aesopian moral. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
Aesopian from SearchGuild. From Wordnik.com. [Optimizing Search Engine Optimization - Anil Dash] Reference
It's Aesopian. From Wordnik.com. [SplicedFeed] Reference
His Aesopian. From Wordnik.com. [Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes] Reference
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