(a.) Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative.
Example Sentences:
(1) The increasingly polarised situation in South Africa after the 70s led to the semi-allegorical and strained July's People (1981), a revisiting of the master-servant relationship upon which so much of her work dwelt.
(2) After briefly summarizing the allegorical implications of the various forgotten Oedipus myths and the father's fateful role within the Theban tragedy, this paper elaborates on those pederastic and filicidal inclinations that I believe to be universal among fathers.
(3) Many of the Biblical stories assumed to be allegorical may have been founded on medical fact.
(4) The Opera and Ballet Theatre – a staggering work of architecture whose irregular, angled forms flowing down to the river could have been built yesterday – is now screened from view by structures that try (with impressive ineptitude) to look like they were built 2,000 years ago, with mock-19th century candelabras and a Roman portico with allegorical figures in what looks like gold lame.
(5) A novella by John Fowles, The Ebony Tower, is presented as an allegorical account of the mid-life crisis, and its inherent myths examined.
(6) And Kafka, too, while ostensibly writing a conspicuously unornamented mature German prose, nonetheless looked to the quasi-allegorical properties of Hassidic folk tales for his formal properties.
(7) Chauncey is the Peter Sellers character in Being There, you may recall, whose accidental elevation to economic sage sees his opinions about gardening and the weather interpreted as profound allegorical utterances.
(8) Art historian Meike Hoffmann, of the Free University of Berlin, said the art world would be particularly excited about the discovery of a valuable Matisse painting from around 1920 and works that were previously unknown or unseen: an Otto Dix self-portrait dated around 1919, and a Chagall gouache painting of an "allegorical scene" with a man kissing a woman wearing a sheep's head.
(9) A broad colourful allegorical sweep through 30 years of history and social change, the work won the 1981 Booker prize and the novel was later awarded the Best of the Booker, through a poll of readers.
(10) Then, in 1951, came the start of The Music of Time sequence, the title deriving from Nicolas Poussin's allegorical painting.
(11) This is embodied by a character called Dole Boy; it's very allegorical.
(12) In Civilization (1916), Thomas Harper Ince launched his allegorical cry for peace.
(13) Some are stagey and allegorical, their true purpose all too transparent – the text is a bridge to life on the speaker’s circuit after politics, a crude marketing exercise.
(14) For 19th-century poets such as Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki, lamenting the final partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, themes of loss were mixed with the mysticism of romanticism, Catholicism and suffering to produce an allegorical vocabulary of sacrifice and resistance, as in this verse by Kazimierz Brodziński: Hail O Christ, Thou Lord of Men!
(15) There are some discouraging headlines in newspapers.” Of border control and immigration reform – a topic in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada , which he directed in 2005: “There seems to be a lot of people worried about it.” Of global warming – an intriguing topic since he fronted ads for for the Texas oil and gas industry but also made an eco-minded expedition to Antarctica – he says only: “I think any thinking person should be worried about climate change.” I mention a scene in The Homesman that feels allegorical: his character, George Briggs, burns down a hotel along with its rapacious owner, played by James Spader.
(16) The Singer Not the Song (1960) was a curious, allegorical western with homosexual undertones.
(17) But nothing is lost or without its effect on the total pattern, while the allegorical master of the dance - as in the Poussin picture - smiles a shade malignly.
(18) Dadd later painted a series of imaginary portraits of allegorical "Passions" – Treachery, Recklessness, and so on – who also have this unnerving, fixed mad stare.
(19) Now I recall it allegorically, lyrically perhaps, even a touch poignantly, because the coincidence of its success with the distant Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II seems to me now a last hurrah of British Imperial glory.
(20) Given the allegorical nature of the novel's content, so it should be.
Allegory
Definition:
(n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.
(n.) Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.
(n.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.
Example Sentences:
(1) Byatt said that, while she had not wished to present an allegory or a polemic, the story was impelled by a profound sense of gloom about the environment and indeed about all human endeavours.
(2) But the bedeviled foray also works as a potent allegory on the slow, vice-like workings of conscience, as guilt hunts down the protagonists with the shrieking remorselessness of Greek furies.
(3) Christians believed, and believe, that the body is not only physical, but also spiritual and mystical, and many believed it was an allegory of church, state and family.
(4) In a country addicted to novelty and invention, he was proceeding to supply an instant lore of allegory, myth and fable.
(5) They had become an allegory for unhappy love, a foreshadow of Romeo and Juliet set in the Hindu Kush .
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Macabre allegory’: Otto Dix’s The Triumph of Death (1934).
(7) Heavy with symbolism, analytical rather than dramatic, it attempts nothing less than an allegory of colonialism and apartheid, one that dares to linger in complexity."
(8) But even more than this bravura dramatic writing, the story of Dr Rieux's selfless struggle with the illness, and the different responses of other citizens, colleagues and chance acquaintances, unfolds an urgent allegory of war.
(9) Their music has long been free of such unnecessary clutter as metaphor, allegory, and poetic conceit.
(10) Bamba Issa took its inspiration from a Disney comic book, Donald Duck and The Magic Hourglass , which UFO felt was “an allegory for capitalism, its arrogance and shortcomings”.
(11) Could we fight back against a world ruled by men?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Armed with a brush … Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting, by Gentileschi.
(12) So he positively enjoyed draping what is, in fact, a chilling allegory of paternal possessiveness and pseudo-scientific fanaticism, in the gaudy fabric of a "romance", just as the author pretends, in his pseudo-preface, to have discovered it among the works of "M de l'Aubépine" (French for "haw-thorn").
(13) The Double , it's said, is meant as an allegory: the straight man is Dostoevsky in real life, shy and often awkward; the arriviste is the author 2.0, the person he sometimes wished he was, who is quick-witted and irresistible to women.
(14) The sociology, the anthropology, the communication is so important, not like the veterinary or the wildlife or medical sciences," he told IRIN, explaining that epidemiological facts have to be translated in simple ways for ordinary people to understand, by using local allegories for instance.
(15) The film, like some of the original Apes movies, mixes intellect and allegory with adventure and special effects.
(16) They approached the cold war as melodrama and McCarthyism by way of allegory.
(17) Another way of reading it could be as an allegory about the self-destructive consequences of women's obsession with shaving.
(18) Clearly it is not so much a kiss he is portraying as an ecstatic allegory of all the copulations he can remember or imagine.
(19) She experimented towards the end, not always successfully, with symbol and allegory, and but for her success as a novelist would have been remembered as a great master of the short-story genre, which she always defended for its concentration, integrity and lack of compromise.
(20) Somehow the people who create television failed to create television, I believe Erin put it best when she referenced Plato's Allegory of the Cave – a very quick read if you would like to make this evening worthwhile.