allegorize
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Shostakovich flagrantly abuses these genres to allegorize how most of the men in his opera treat most of the women.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
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
Partly this was because Tillstrom was able to allegorize some grown-up themes.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2011
Not to allegorize farther—my fate is now, at your perusal of this, accomplished.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Samuel Richardson
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
But he formed quite too high an estimate of the value of the heathen philosophy, whilst he allegorized Scripture in a way as dangerous as it was absurd.
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by W. D. (William Dool) Killen
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
Philo's philosophy was in great part a philosophy of the law; the Patristic school borrowed his allegorizing method and produced a philosophy of religious dogma!
From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich
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
