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68 examples of Allegory in a sentence

And so maybe the teddy bear worked in part because the legend of Roosevelt and that bear in Mississippi was kind of like an allegory of this great responsibility that society was just beginning to face up to back then.
Although Roman culture was never fully lost, its influence declined and new art styles arose focused on religious symbolism and allegory rather than proportion and realism.
It's been read as an allegory of the Cold War, the French Resistance, and Britain’s colonization of Ireland.
But the vivid image of someone condemned to endlessly repeat a futile task has resonated as an allegory about the human condition.
And as we search for the truth about government, we should keep Ambrogio's work, not a lie but an allegory, in our collective mind's eye.
This is the allegory of good government.
But it is the allegory of bad government that has been haunting me since November 9. It's badly damaged, but it reads like today's newspapers.
Chess was used as an allegory for different social classes performing their proper roles, and the pieces were re-interpreted in their new context.
But Dante’s "Divine Comedy" is more than just religious allegory.
What would an allegory of good government look like today?
It is also as misguided allegory about the Cold-War and arms races in general.
It demands a different approach than usual, since the allegory will not reward dissection.
It is a rare and fine spectacle, an allegory of death and transfiguration that is neither preachy nor mawkish.
Part homage to German expressionism, part allegory, the film is replete with visual symbolism and an artistic style that rivals anything seen since the 1920's.
You sense Red is really an allegory, a reenactment of Prospero's omnipresent gestures in The Tempest, yet it is more than its story appears.
Tonino Valeri directed this fascinating, if flawed film which obviously is an allegory for the Kennedy assassination.
"In the Mood for Love" a teasing allegory of loneliness and longing.
My main complaint about the movie is that it develops into a very unsubtle Christian allegory by its climax.
An intense allegory on the fragile facades of civic conventions.
Like I said, this short is very much a political allegory more suitable for adults than children.
The teasers for Tree of Palme try to pass it off as a sort of allegory for a fairy tale with actual meaning, then immediately start raving about the animation.
You have to wonder what the people who made this film were thinking; perhaps they meant it as a third-world allegory about capitalist greed and conspicuous consumption.
all-too familiar list .It was declared to be an allegory comparing Britain to the corrupt,crumbling society represented by the school.Well,nearly forty years on the same schools are still flourishing,the British social system has not changed,the "October Revolution" has been long forgotten except by those involved on one side or the other and Mr Anderson has completed his "State of the Country" trilogy to no effect whatsoever.
The show's most famous song, "What I Did for Love" which in the show was a touching allegory sung by the entire cast about what they give up to dance, becomes just another standard love song in the film, performed tiredly by a miscast Allyson Reed as Cassie.
Aesthetically, the movie could have been pleasing, especially its first half, until it is not clear that every action portrayed serves as an allegory of various aspects of whale hunting.
This might work as an allegory, if Julian Po had any defining characteristics or anything approaching wisdom to impart.
For real film people, this film is a must, since it works as a perfect little allegory for the movies themselves.
One would love to know more about how much he had to do with it, because it's an exceptionally clever variation on the sterile master/fertile servant tale - nearly an allegory of the entertainment industry, run by dried-up numskulls, but made into a vibrant world of art and play by an exploited underclass of nobodies and non-WASPs.
What I wasn't expecting was an allegory for the trials of human existence.
It is a political and cultural allegory of Mexico's post-Columbian odyssey, as even a passing glance at Mexico's history will attest.
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