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Recent Examples of allegorical
The legendary director has set his next film as What Happens At Night, an adaptation of the mysterious allegorical novel by Peter Cameron, Entertainment Weekly has confirmed.
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Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025
But that promise gets fumbled in an allegorical chamber play that grows increasingly tedious.
—Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
When 1984 was published in 1949, the novel was seen as an allegorical take on the Soviet Union.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2025
The heavily allegorical fantasy is notable for its heavy use of philosophical and Biblical symbolism, and touches on themes common in Oshii’s other works, particularly the relationship between dreams and reality.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2025
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Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025
But that promise gets fumbled in an allegorical chamber play that grows increasingly tedious.
—Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
When 1984 was published in 1949, the novel was seen as an allegorical take on the Soviet Union.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2025
The heavily allegorical fantasy is notable for its heavy use of philosophical and Biblical symbolism, and touches on themes common in Oshii’s other works, particularly the relationship between dreams and reality.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allegorical
Adjective
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These motifs take on a symbolic value, according to Sejko, and suggest the loneliness and isolation of power.—
Will Tizard,
Variety,
2 Nov. 2025
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That Xi did not meet Trump until this late in his term is also symbolic.—
Kerry Brown,
Time,
31 Oct. 2025
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Her husband Tom Kaulitz, meanwhile, was dressed as a Greek soldier turned to stone by the mythological figure.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
1 Nov. 2025
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Personal remembrance becomes interwoven with political fiction, historical fact, and mythological distortion in the flood of stories that customarily follows a war.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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Among the other standouts are Klimt’s Blooming Meadow (1908)—a sea of green grass and trees flecked with blue, yellow, and pink dabs of wildflowers—and six figurative bronzes by Matisse.—
Julie Belcove,
Robb Report,
26 Oct. 2025
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An homage to millions of anonymous victims, the work implicitly rebukes the nearby figurative sculptures of slaveholders.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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In those meetings, our would-be bosses told us to make mock phone calls to prospective clients to gauge our ability to convince strangers about the merit of an imaginary product.—
Snigdha Poonam,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
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Each one was built by a Ramona family, less to keep away any errant birds from imaginary crops at the Grange parking lot, but more to celebrate fall and enjoy a family collaboration.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Oct. 2025
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Alpha Genesis’s red-meat pivot is emblematic of the desperate position in which the primate-breeding industry now finds itself.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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But the reaction was also emblematic of both sides.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Both of these fanciful descriptions evoke qualities that, at the dawn of my own delinquent years of exile, must have resonated.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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His keen knack for seeing the world through a playful lens transforms even the most mundane aspects of travel into a fanciful adventure for his 3-year-old son, Malcolm.—
Rachel Chang,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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In my own life there was nothing metaphorical about the moving of those tectonic plates.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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The journey has been metaphorical, too.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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The figural birds are crafted in platinum and 18-karat gold with gemstones — appearing to perch upon the wearer.—
Thomas Waller,
Footwear News,
2 Sep. 2025
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As we are never returned to any figural baseline, our eyes are increasingly ungrounded.—
Jan Tumlir,
Artforum,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Allegorical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allegorical. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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