allegorical

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So nothing allegorical, just straight to the eye — what is the situation we're in and what do we do about it?

From Salon

His writing takes on the great riddles of existence — freedom and consciousness, truth and illusion, suffering and transcendence — spinning them into shimmering, allegorical texts.

From New York Times

Its 2.75-metre-wide Caravaggio painted ceiling, commissioned in 1597 and valued at 310 million euros, depicts an allegorical scene with the gods Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto representing the transformation of lead into gold.

From Reuters

Like much of the writing that followed his 1980 novel “The Book of Jamaica,” “Lost Memory of Skin” blends a kind of gritty realism with allegorical and social concerns.

From Los Angeles Times

Though “Women Talking” is based on a novel that is based on true events, it has a distilled, allegorical quality that frees ideas to circulate in new ways.

From New York Times