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Harfouch noted the symbolic weight of playing in the Vatican, a place representing more than 2.2 billion Christians worldwide.—
Chris Gallagher,
USA TODAY,
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The collection features a range of symbolic designs that blend tradition with modernity, highlighting Swarovski’s craftsmanship and creativity.—
Ty Gaskins,
WWD,
10 Jan. 2025
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There’s enough perverse, sometimes grimly funny particularity to their characterizations to complicate the allegorical leanings of the film’s script, written by the director with an anonymous collaborator, which etches micro-portraits of gaping human sadness in a larger panorama of mass tragedy.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
12 Dec. 2024
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Even Elio Vittorini’s Conversation in Sicily (1941), the most celebrated anti-Fascist Italian novel of the war years, operates in a murky, allegorical register; it couldn’t have been published otherwise.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Pacific Palisades, the Los Angeles neighborhood that's been devastated by the Palisades Fire, is emblematic of the insurance nightmare increasingly facing homeowners residing in regions prone to climate disasters.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2025
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The loss is emblematic of an evolving political landscape that has proven challenging for progressives over the past several cycles.—
Hanna Trudo,
The Hill,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Sylleptic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sylleptic. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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