allegorize
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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
Partly this was because Tillstrom was able to allegorize some grown-up themes.
From New York Times • May 6, 2011
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 Parton, James
