allegorize
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In 2021, though, it’s rare that a genre pic doesn’t attempt to allegorize contemporary social problems.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2021
There are plenty of obvious ways a 21st-century novelist could allegorize a story like Brinkley’s.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2013
He was a theater experimenter, a provider of vivid, cacophonous stage tableaus, incorporating ballads, verse and mime within demanding scripts that often used historical settings to dramatize, allude to or allegorize timeless issues.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2012
Partly this was because Tillstrom was able to allegorize some grown-up themes.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2011
If even now philosophers and theologians cannot resist the temptation to allegorize, how inevitable was it that this course should be pursued by early Jewish theologians!
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
It tweaked the movie-cowboy archetype at a time when westerns allegorized the United States’ involvement in Vietnam.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
And they often, though by no means always, center on aspects of the queer struggle—themes to which Highsmith’s novels after The Price of Salt continued to return, if only in oblique, highly allegorized fashion.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2015
Though he hardly clarifies his intention, Mailer apparently figures that he has thus allegorized Vietnam as a case of Texas-style Americans neurotically in love with war.
From Time Magazine Archive
The picture is saturated in a kind of allegorized romanticism that is curiously musty.
From Time Magazine Archive
The myths are either allegorized or thrust into the background.
From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Roy Wood Sellars
If it’s an allegory, it trivializes whatever it’s allegorizing.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021
In 1924 he caused a ripple in sculpture and religious circles with his bronze, The Chrysalis, allegorizing mankind's evolution, from the ape.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a superbly professional storyteller, but his work was at times flawed by facile allegorizing.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is noticeable that the exegetico-grammatical school of Antioch, as well as the allegorizing Alexandrian, adopted and maintained the doctrine of restoration, p.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
Was it to this that the allegorizing of the law, the search for the spirit beneath the letter, the reinterpretation of the holy law of Moses in the light of philosophical reason, had brought Judaism?
From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich
