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Recent Examples of allegorical
This stark backdrop amplifies the tension between the objects and their lost context, echoing the allegorical depth of Golden Age art.
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Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
His style — with its dynamic camera, efficient editing and plot-driven storytelling — feels much closer to American studio movies, compared to the relatively allegorical approach of other Iranian directors looking to critique the regime without signing their own death warrants.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 22 May 2025
The industrial workspace in the film functions as a compelling allegorical backdrop for broader societal issues.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 May 2025
In the old allegorical star atlases, Virgo is holding a spike of wheat where Spica glows, evidently representing the harvest time which occurs in mid-October when the sun is passing that bright star.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 16 May 2025
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Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
His style — with its dynamic camera, efficient editing and plot-driven storytelling — feels much closer to American studio movies, compared to the relatively allegorical approach of other Iranian directors looking to critique the regime without signing their own death warrants.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 22 May 2025
The industrial workspace in the film functions as a compelling allegorical backdrop for broader societal issues.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 May 2025
In the old allegorical star atlases, Virgo is holding a spike of wheat where Spica glows, evidently representing the harvest time which occurs in mid-October when the sun is passing that bright star.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allegorical
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Volume 1 introduces a host of mythological figures and fan-favorite characters.—
Aya Al-Hakim,
People.com,
7 July 2025
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The cyclops is a mythological figure that was used to explain natural disasters: lightning, thunder, those kinds of things.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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The move was largely symbolic — such trade is relatively minimal — but demonstrated the worsening of their ties: Brussels is reportedly pressuring Beijing to raise its target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions ahead of this month’s meeting.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
8 July 2025
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Diplomats in Brussels expect the final text to resemble the outline deal Britain signed with the U.S. earlier this year — a few pages long, largely symbolic, leaving the most contentious issues for later.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 July 2025
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The Royal Observatory Greenwich is home to Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian, an imaginary line of longitude, designated as 0 degrees that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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The soundtrack shifts toward lighter indie rock and away from brain-numbing redundancies, while the story treats those imaginary genre sketches like an accidental off-ramp left in the rearview.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
10 July 2025
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Inspired by the fanciful style of Antoni Gaudí’s Park Güell, in Barcelona; Saint Phalle worked with a team of collaborators that included her husband, Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely, on 22 large-scale concrete sculptures, each representing a mystical figure from the tarot deck.—
Kin Woo,
Vogue,
30 June 2025
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While the current conflict may lead us to think such cooperation is fanciful, who could have thought that the U.S. and Japan would be G7 allies after a nuclear bombing within a generation?—
Saleem H. Ali,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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The memorial will also feature figurative sculptures, including one depicting the queen with Philip.—
Aurora Martínez,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 July 2025
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So Americans may save figurative pennies—while foreigners lose access to lifesaving drugs entirely.—
Sally Pipes,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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Founded by an Italian immigrant, Chef Boyardee is emblematic of the American Dream.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
7 July 2025
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Images from the outside of the hotel, where hundreds of migrants waited on the streets for shelter, were emblematic of the scale of the issue during that time.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
2 July 2025
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“Allegorical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allegorical. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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