allegory

Example Sentences

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The covers are marvelous works in their own right, with elaborate emblems and allegories that are themselves a form of representation.

From New York Times

This isn’t a particularly gripping love story, it’s more love story as plot device, an allegory about life and love and a pushback against the happily-ever-after onstage love stories that came before.

From Seattle Times

She was scanning “The Building of the Panama Canal,” a monumental mural painted in the 1930s and an official version of the past, bursting with allegory, symbolism and clusters of historical figures.

From New York Times

An allegory of California indeed, and one that only recently seems to be coming to an end.

From Los Angeles Times

Most durable fantasy isn't developed as a direct allegory for a particular war or political era.

From Salon