allegorical

But there are similar allegorical tests at work within these episodes.

Westrate, however, is less concerned with the allegorical meaning of this battle than with the interpersonal dynamics of the combatants.

It is a symbol of freedom through French history and represents allegorical figures of the French republic.

The sculptures’ significance was allegorical as well as architectural: Department stores, though erected mostly by men, have always been feminine domains.

I was straddling a wafer-thin allegorical fence: The young man my parents wanted me to be versus who I was becoming.