allegorize

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

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

Nothing was farther from the popular caricaturists of that age than to allegorize a doctrine or a moral lesson; on the contrary, it was their habit to interpret allegory in the most absurdly literal manner.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton

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

They allegorized when an allegory was invited, whereas Philo and his school often forced their philosophical meanings in face of the clear purport of the text, and without regard to the Hebrew.

From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich

If it’s an allegory, it trivializes whatever it’s allegorizing.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021

He was a superbly professional storyteller, but his work was at times flawed by facile allegorizing.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

An allegorizing rationalism like Rambam's leads nowhere—or rather everywhere.

From Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 by Israel Zangwill

This is not very salutary allegorizing, but it is soon over, and the poem closed, leaving a pleasant perfume in the reader's mind of chivalry, errantry and the delicious days before the invention of civilization.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various