(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.
Anagoge
Definition:
(n.) An elevation of mind to things celestial.
(n.) The spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.