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 • 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
Partly this was because Tillstrom was able to allegorize some grown-up themes.
From New York Times • May 6, 2011
To this vessel the Persian poets often refer, and allegorize it in different ways.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
