allegorize
Example Sentences
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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
If it’s an allegory, it trivializes whatever it’s allegorizing.
From Washington Post
And by using predator-prey relationships to allegorize human power structures, the film almost inevitably incorporates a worldview in which the rulers’ power derives from their biological superiority.
From Washington Post
Its 2199 allegorizes the condition of the laboring classes at the end of our 20th century.
From Salon
They were born only a year apart—Salman first, in 1947, the year of India’s Partition, the bloody national cleaving that he would allegorize in his magical-realist magnum opus “Midnight’s Children.”
From The New Yorker
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