allegorize

It tweaked the movie-cowboy archetype at a time when westerns allegorized the United States’ involvement in Vietnam.

Shostakovich flagrantly abuses these genres to allegorize how most of the men in his opera treat most of the women.

If it’s an allegory, it trivializes whatever it’s allegorizing.

And by using predator-prey relationships to allegorize human power structures, the film almost inevitably incorporates a worldview in which the rulers’ power derives from their biological superiority.

Its 2199 allegorizes the condition of the laboring classes at the end of our 20th century.