(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.
Similitude
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance.
(n.) The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.
(n.) That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison between the germs found in germ carrier donors and those found in recipients with sepsis showed a similitude in three cases (2.2%).
(2) Traditionally it has been assumed that hydric anademia explains, for the most part, the paths taken by the disease and its varying intensity, but the importance of direct interhuman contamination is demonstrated by the similitude between the ways gone along by the propagation and these of the circulation of men and goods.
(3) Electrophoretic comparison with glutelins extracted by acetic acid and with hordeins, all reduced and alkylated, discloses a great similitude between this fraction, the glutelins and some hordein fast components alpha, beta and gamma.
(4) Due to major the and microscopic similitude between low degree transitional cell carcinoma and the localized inflammatory changes (papillary cystitis) the criteria to establish a correct diagnosis are discussed.
(5) Burundanga intoxication is related to other toxic phenomena found in different countries and similitudes with transient global amnesia are emphasized.
(6) A clinical study has been done and we have established a similitude with Axenfeld's primary calcareal degeneration, which was described by this author in 1917.
(7) Calbindin D-27 kDa (previously named vitamin D-CaBP or cholecalcin) and visinin present similitude both for their purification procedure and histochemical localization.
(8) Allometry of resting VO2 among cockroach species is similar to that in vertebrates, and is consistent with models based on both "elastic similarity" and "biological similitude."
(9) 54 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD), 26 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 18 control subjects, all over 55, have performed neuropsychological tests, evaluating global intellectual function (Rosen's cognitive scale, WAIS digit symbol, WAIS similitude and WMS logical memory tests) and visuospatial functions (Rey lacunar pictures, Poppelreuter and Benton line orientation tests).
(10) Taking into account the studies of cortical maps in Bradypus and the notable similitude of the pattern of neocortical sulci between Bradypus and H. indifferens, the possible representation of the primary sensitive and motor somatic areas, secondary sensitive somatic area, visual and auditory areas are inferred.
(11) The history of particle clearance was studied in lungs of mice serially sacrificed at intervals up to 14 months following single exposures to an aerosol of submicronic, particulate, iron oxide used as a similitude for atmospheric dust.
(12) This similitude brings further support to the notion that subcortical damage of the lenticular nuclei can induce a frontal-like syndrome.
(13) These similitudes proved to be critical sites (according to Critic).
(14) Since similitudes between oncogene products and growth factors have been observed, it was of interest to compare the inhibitory effect of IDF45 upon the stimulation of DNA synthesis induced either by serum or by pp60-src.
(15) Cross reactions obtained are rather equal to the degree of similitude between these mycoplasma species.
(16) The similitude with some of the behavioural aspects or depressive of hebephrenic states is emphasized.
(17) Their similitude with other reported intracellular calcareous bodies occurring in malakoplakia, infectious orchitis (Michaelis-Guttman' bodies or calcosphaerites), in beryllium granulomas (conchoid bodies) and sarcoidosis (Schaumann bodies) is discussed.
(18) The similitude between ageing and hypertension, the contraposition that is seen in youngsters, and other metabolic alterations test this model of winkessel.
(19) We show that attempts based on mechanical similitude to set a dosage that would be equivalent across species (for example, from mouse to humans) lead to ambiguous results.
(20) Similitudes with solitary cyst of long bones have even been underlined, but no reports exist in the literature of the double localization: maxillary and extra-maxillary.