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
The great tragedians accept the myths in the aggregate, but decline them in particulars; some of the poets transform or allegorize them; some use them ornamentally, as graceful decorations.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
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
The picture is saturated in a kind of allegorized romanticism that is curiously musty.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Even in Homer we find it expurgated; in Pindar, Aeschylus, and Xenophanes it is expurgated, denied and allegorized.
From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray
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
As to the double scope of Dante's philosophy we will cite a passage from the Convito, all the more to our purpose as it will illustrate his own method of allegorizing.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
The square corner pillars support figures allegorizing the six divisions of the earth.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various
