Allegorical

It dawns on the man, in allegorical death, that it is neither possible nor necessary to cast off the trappings of culture that comprise his conditioned life, nor need he cross any putative hallowed threshold to gain the freedom embodied by the Law (a law being the one thing that is not subject to itself), because he realizes that freedom is always already the case on either side of the gate. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We have too, the story of his exploits told in allegorical form. ❋ Unknown (1943)

Peter Wilby reckoned the article had been 'allegorical' - another word for lies. ❋ Glyn Davies (2007)

Which is to say, in allegorical terms, the devil can go merrily on his way in the world, coercing its inhabitants into sin regardless of any risk of damnation, because God’s Law is not being enacted upon sinners. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Still, on watching the movie a good couple of decades since I last read the book, as much as I found it enjoyable enough, I couldn’t help but start to think through just what Lewis is saying here, in allegorical terms, just how it all turns on the idea that, by the rules of Deep Magic, Edmund must die. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Christian Scientists have given Bible terms allegorical, metaphysical definitions that are completely different from normal usage. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Which if you ask me makes just about as much sense as most Mormon doctrines, but okay, fine, I got around that by thinking of it as somewhat allegorical, which is probably heretical. ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

And then, like him, you must, by a sedulous lecture, and frequent meditation, break the bone, and suck out the marrow, — that is, my allegorical sense, or the things I to myself propose to be signified by these ❋ Unknown (2002)

Like him, you must, by a sedulous lecture [reading], and frequent meditation, break the bone, and suck out the marrow; that is, my allegorical sense, or the things I to myself propose to be signified by these Pythagorical symbols; ... the most glorious doctrines and dreadful mysteries, as well in what concerneth our religion, as matters of the public state and life economical. ❋ William Cleaver Wilkinson (N/A)

He finds the giraffe or camelopard the most interesting animal at the Jardin des Plantes, and he dislikes a ceiling painted by Gros: “It is allegorical, which is a class of painting I detest.” ❋ Morse, Samuel F B (1914)

A glance at the first drafts of Paradise Lost, when the subject was still under consideration for dramatic treatment, will discover among the dramatis personæa large preponderance of what are known as allegorical characters, such as Conscience, Death, Ignorance, Justice, Faith, Hope, and Wisdom. ❋ Unknown (1884)

The literal meaning and the allegorical are the web and woof of the fabric, in which the separate incidents are interwoven, with twofold thread, in designs of infinite variety, complexity, and beauty. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

He finds the giraffe or camelopard the most interesting animal at the Jardin des Plantes, and he dislikes a ceiling painted by Gros: "It is allegorical, which is a class of painting I detest." ❋ Unknown (1831)

It also makes the "allegorical" element of Appelfeld's fiction a less relevant and less helpful orientation to his work for the already committed reader. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"I think that the parallels, the kind of allegorical nature of the film, is quite overt in a way," he explained, adding "I don't think that it's particularly profitable -- for myself -- to get all that explicit about it." ❋ Unknown (2009)