Allegorize

Why else would Augustine go to such lengths to allegorize scripture? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Augustine's "solution" to this problem was to allegorize the living daylights out of Genesis so it would support almost any theory. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The political edge of the film really does not extend beyond this simplicity, and as such cuts very little within the development of the story but cuts more deeply just because it now seems like the default, expected option for people to lightly allegorize the situation in Iraq into the settings for genre cinema. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The inclusion and portrayal of the Nigerians smacks of direct racism, and the central premise is both too different to allegorize and too allegorized. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Pindars allegorize a division between disciplined and vulnerable bodies, true and false patriotism, manly and unmanly sentiment. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In the end, it's an argument that profoundly misunderstands the role and the workings of fiction, mistaking its ability to reflect and allegorize the world for an idea that a change in the representation might change the world reflected and allegorized. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Nonetheless, Jewish philosophers regularly allegorize scripture and are also influenced by allegorical readings given in rabbinic and midrashic literature (Shatz, 2003). ❋ Sweeney, Eileen (2008)

Did not Jesus allegorize that we are sent as sheep among wolves and so be as shrewd as snake and as innocent as dove - Matthew 10: 5-16. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Or, to allegorize my own experience (which seems a pretty handy definition of reading), I was, unlike-like Adam and Eve, bound to fall into the question when the opportunity presented itself, in the form of the following passages from Erec and Enide (cited from Kibler translation, Penguin edition): What should I say of her beauty? ❋ Nicola Masciandaro (2007)

However, just as the hero is a projection of Disraeli’s personal struggle with the contradiction between his religion and his heritage, similarly, the setting provides Disraeli with the means by which to allegorize the contemporary political conflict about the relationship between throne and altar. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Not to allegorize farther — my fate is now, at your perusal of this, accomplished. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Perhaps Keats thought the story a haunting one -- which it is; there's no need to read it allegorically although it is open to it, Romantic poems like this one generally contain amiguities that don't allegorize well. ❋ Unknown (2005)

When people are infused through and through with a story, they begin to allegorize it, and to treat it as more than a bare anrration, but as a template for understanding other things. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It is among Norma Rae's most remarkable decisions that the film chooses at once to allegorize and enact just such artistic-aesthetic ambitionthis film's own ambitionthrough a subtle yet profound cinematic conjuring of the theme, image, sound, and felt presence of lyric poetry. ❋ Unknown (2003)

And there is a kind of sacredness attached to the memory of the great and the good, which seems to bid us repulse the scepticism which would allegorize their existence into a pleasing apologue, and measure the giants of intellect by an homaeopathic dynameter. ❋ Unknown (2003)