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Recent Examples of allegorical
Instead, the filmmakers appear to have returned to a story whose allegorical commentary on today’s grim political landscape seems more relevant than ever.
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 June 2025
Okri’s also a playwright, and the dialogue here grants a shimmery surface to the allegorical underpinning.
—Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2025
This stark backdrop amplifies the tension between the objects and their lost context, echoing the allegorical depth of Golden Age art.
—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
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 June 2025
Okri’s also a playwright, and the dialogue here grants a shimmery surface to the allegorical underpinning.
—Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2025
This stark backdrop amplifies the tension between the objects and their lost context, echoing the allegorical depth of Golden Age art.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allegorical
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Much like the museum’s recent homage to Baroque poet Giovan Battista Marino, Black Soil Poems continues Galleria Borghese’s engagement with the poetic and the mythological.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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The Lady and the Unicorn is a series of six famous tapestries that mix depictions of the senses with heraldic symbols and mythological creatures.—
Kristina McGuirk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 June 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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In a post symbolic of fears that the company was now directly linked to his America Party, Musk was forced to correct the record that Tesla’s finance chief Vaibhav Taneja was not serving as Treasurer after a convincing fake had been uploaded to the Federal Election Commission’s website domain.—
Christiaan Hetzner,
Fortune,
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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Graydon, always an aesthete, got the budget to indulge his more fanciful whims.—
Michael Grynbaum,
HollywoodReporter,
14 July 2025
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The result is a contemporary boutique property with a touch of nostalgia, nodding to a time when the mansion halls still hosted fanciful dinner parties and soirees.—
Michaela Trimble,
Vogue,
13 July 2025
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The Imperial Irrigation District, which provides water to farmers in the southeastern corner of California, drew a figurative line in the sand earlier this month, calling for a halt to the conversion of agricultural fields into solar panel farms.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
17 July 2025
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Our 2008 rudimentary data analytics revealed these anomalies, a figurative abacus compared to the sophisticated analytics technology OIGs and federal staff have nowadays.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 July 2025
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The arrival of the new Adidas store is emblematic of the potential foreign firms see in affluent Nigerians.—
Alexander Onukwue,
semafor.com,
18 July 2025
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Logan Gregorio and Bryce Welch attend different colleges and play different sports, but their journeys are emblematic of how much has changed in recruiting.—
Matt Le Cren,
Chicago Tribune,
18 July 2025
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“Allegorical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allegorical. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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