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
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
All allegorize the Sun, six months above and six months below the equator.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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
The loves of Faustus and Helen are readily allegorized into the passion of the Renaissance for classical beauty, the passion to which all that is not beauty seemed very dross.
From Helen of Troy by Lang, Andrew
If it’s an allegory, it trivializes whatever it’s allegorizing.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021
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
He was a superbly professional storyteller, but his work was at times flawed by facile allegorizing.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is noticeable that the exegetico-grammatical school of Antioch, as well as the allegorizing Alexandrian, adopted and maintained the doctrine of restoration, p.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
Was it to this that the allegorizing of the law, the search for the spirit beneath the letter, the reinterpretation of the holy law of Moses in the light of philosophical reason, had brought Judaism?
From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Bentwich, Norman
