allegorize
Example Sentences
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Shostakovich flagrantly abuses these genres to allegorize how most of the men in his opera treat most of the women.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022
In 2021, though, it’s rare that a genre pic doesn’t attempt to allegorize contemporary social problems.
From Slate • Aug. 26, 2021
There are plenty of obvious ways a 21st-century novelist could allegorize a story like Brinkley’s.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2013
He was a theater experimenter, a provider of vivid, cacophonous stage tableaus, incorporating ballads, verse and mime within demanding scripts that often used historical settings to dramatize, allude to or allegorize timeless issues.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2012
The earlier English moralities4—from the reign of Henry VI. to that of Henry VII.—usually allegorize the conflict between good and evil in the mind and life of man, without any side-intention of theological controversy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
