allegorize
Example Sentences
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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.
From Washington Post
Its 2199 allegorizes the condition of the laboring classes at the end of our 20th century.
From Salon
They were born only a year apart—Salman first, in 1947, the year of India’s Partition, the bloody national cleaving that he would allegorize in his magical-realist magnum opus “Midnight’s Children.”
From The New Yorker
He added, “He excels at allegorizing the way that human beings are separated by gulfs of yearning.”
From New York Times
Professional literary discourse often allegorizes human passion and conflict, in ways that make the actual human secondary.
From The New Yorker
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