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Recent Examples of allegorical
The dancing bears therefore serve as an allegorical leitmotif in the book’s second half.
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Timothy Garton Ash, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018
Or as seen in the work of the sixteenth-century painter Arcimboldo, who is best known for this kind of thing in the Western tradition, painting iconic allegorical portraits out of animals or foods of a certain theme, like the four seasons.
—Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
The Act of Killing director uses an allegorical family to probe a different kind of psychological violence, one padded by the illusory comfort of money.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2024
To finance his sprawling allegorical tale about urban greed, the director has poured $120 million harvested from his successful Napa Valley wine business into the film.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024
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Timothy Garton Ash, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018
Or as seen in the work of the sixteenth-century painter Arcimboldo, who is best known for this kind of thing in the Western tradition, painting iconic allegorical portraits out of animals or foods of a certain theme, like the four seasons.
—Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
The Act of Killing director uses an allegorical family to probe a different kind of psychological violence, one padded by the illusory comfort of money.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2024
To finance his sprawling allegorical tale about urban greed, the director has poured $120 million harvested from his successful Napa Valley wine business into the film.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024
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Related Articles Surrounding the entrance are eight statues representing Roman mythological gods and goddesses, towering over an ironwork gate with bronze ornaments.Joelle Diderich, WWD, 26 Oct. 2024
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Age-old paintings of satyrs bedding nymphs and mythological figures fornicating have been newly unearthed at a small house at Pompeii.Alex Greenberger for ARTNews, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2024
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These subtle symbolic and rhetorical shifts suggest that North Korea is dissatisfied with China.Sungmin Cho, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
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Observers are invited in by the U.S., something of both practical and symbolic importance.Laura Kelly, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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And the exasperation goes from imaginary frustration to real annoyance.Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
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And through her mesmerizing filmmaking, Kapadia creates a world that didn’t seem possible — which, of course, reinforces how imaginary this new place might prove to be.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
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In this rosy way of thinking, Trump won’t ever stand for election again and has a legacy to consider — a fanciful notion that is plainly a triumph of hope over experience.Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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With a cartoon aesthetic only the early Space Age could deliver, the fanciful four-wheeler was not fully appreciated in its time.Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2024
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Oz treats both literal and figurative families as either responsibilities to be resented or props to be arranged for his benefit; The Penguin ends with Oz, his goal finally in sight, re-creating those cycles of violence and outdoing his own brutality.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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Over the next near-century, researchers attributed around 430 figurative geoglyphs to the Nazca people.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024
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Rising Arrests Amidst Tensions Woodland's situation is emblematic of a troubling trend: the increasing arrest of American citizens in Russia while relations between Moscow and Washington reach post-Cold War lows.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The line’s nihilism is emblematic of the Cure’s early albums, which often confront the specter of death with absurdism and existential angst.Chris Stanton, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Allegorical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allegorical. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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