allegorize
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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
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 Richardson, Samuel
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
Then there is a reaction, the mythical spirit must assert itself even among civilized peoples, since allegorized Gods are felt to be hollow abstractions, having nothing divine about them.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
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
Bacon's final conclusion seems to be that, although allegorical poetry does exist, allegory is not essential to poetry and that the wholesale allegorizing of the middle ages was far off the mark.
From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen
On the other hand, the allegorizing tendency which clings fast to the letter sometimes takes odd liberties with the spirit of ceremonies and texts.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various
