Definition of ALLEGORICAL

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Two young black men encounter a mysterious white stranger in Antoinette Nwandu's allegorical drama seen previously at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, where it was filmed by Spike Lee. — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Pass Over': Theater Review," 19 June 2018 But his fact-and-fantasy images of existential violence and degradation, past and present, are in an old allegorical mode. — New York Times, "He Spoke Out During the AIDS Crisis. See Why His Art Still Matters.," 12 July 2018 Based in Mumbai, Mr. Kallat has been best known since the mid-1990s for allegorical paintings and sculptures combining news photographs, self-portraiture and images of urban chaos and violence. — New York Times, "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week," 6 June 2018 MewithoutYous shift into brooding indie folk, with reverberant waltzes that touch on religious themes and allegorical subjects. — John Adamian, courant.com, "Seven Concerts You Might Want To See (And Why)," 9 June 2018 The film doesn’t grapple with massive allegorical topics, either. — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, "Solo film review: Best when it embraces its favorite action-movie urges," 24 May 2018 As such, Happy as Lazzaro feels both timeless and of the moment but, especially in its second half, can’t seem to make up its mind between being literal, allegorical, simply anecdotal or a kind of loose association of all these possibilities. — Boyd Van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Happy as Lazzaro' ('Lazzaro Felice'): Film Review | Cannes 2018," 13 May 2018 Sometimes the visions people described seemed more allegorical than literal, but no less meaningful. — Moises Velasquez-manoff, WIRED, "Ketamine Stirs Up Hope—and Controversy—as a Depression Drug," 8 May 2018 In Writing on Snow (Thu 4/26, 8:15 PM), a bleak allegorical drama from Rashid Masharawi (Laila's Birthday, Ticket to Jerusalem), five Palestinians with different politics take refuge in a Gaza home as bombs rain down on them. — Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader, "Chicago Palestine Film Festival: past versus present, neighbor versus neighbor," 19 Apr. 2018

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