allegorical

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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

This world may be rooted in soil, in fields where children run and play and in roads traveled by horse-drawn buggy, but it also occupies a slippery zone between the concrete and the allegorical.

From Los Angeles Times

Some scenes and story lines are more blatantly allegorical than others, and initially it’s hard to tell whether these whimsical movements are from a single character’s perspective or just a characteristic of the work.

From New York Times