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
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
She has said these songs allegorize intensely personal moments in her life.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2010
Paradoxically, in his exposition of the law, Philo follows the letter more closely as the expression of justice, while the later rabbis often allegorize it in order to support their humaner interpretation.
From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich
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 tradition here is evidently allegorized, but it is by no means lost in the allegory.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller
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
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
Others have understood their allegorizing about heaven as a rejection of the future life.
From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson
