Use "allegory" in a sentence

1. The biblical allegory of the Beast and the Dragon as written in the Book of Revelation foreshadowed, perhaps, the emergence of Science and Technology and society‘s insatiable attachment to Material Things (False Prophets)

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2. It was an allegory of death

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3. He told Marcelino in, more or less, the following words: “whenever you can, ask Roger to write an allegory or something along that line to print in the magazine for the festivities of the Assumption and San Roque, and the festival of the sardine in August”

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4. In Book VII of the Republic, Plato has Socrates spell out an allegory

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5. I put in this allegory in order to do honor to the real heroes of Black America

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6. Cave, Allegory of, 294-295

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7. He took out Le Mal Jaune and tried to immerse himself in the Frenchman's allegory of the Vietnamese-France relationship

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8. time Plato, in his famous cave allegory, compared the appearances of our

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9. Herman Melville used a ship called the Pequot in his book, Moby Dick, as an allegory for the craft of writing

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10. 1 Peter and the group about him came to the conclusion that the parable of the sower was an allegory, that each feature had some hidden meaning, and so they decided to go to Jesus and ask for an explanation

11. The twelve would often, among themselves, attempt to figure out the Master's parables as they would an allegory, but never again did they regard such speculations seriously

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12. The allegory is

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13. In actuality, the creation of the Norse Gods constitutes an allegory describing our escape from hell

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14. Explaining the allegory of this story Maharaj Ji used to say that it is our mind which is in the

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15. allegory in the third chapter of Genesis

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16. In fact, where is the good or rational inspiration in “The Garden of Eden” allegory? Woman as

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17. g the Genesis story about a first generation couple's idolatry is only an allegory!

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18. This is analogous to traditional class competition, but the grades have been changed into experience points to trip the student into learning, and grade levels have been morphed into the language of mastery hierarchy to guise it in the allegory of a regurgitated hero quest

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19. Games attach to games ; fantasy Ultimate Death Challenge is a gamasite to INT'L Rule Free Fighting, and when there are fantasy leagues attached to iAssassin, which is a derivative of the IRFF, then you have three degrees of game , all of which can be played under the rubric of what they are an allegory for, i

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20. So, you've figured out that game points are just a surrogate allegory for that ubiquitous slavery, monergy, but not as fulfilling if they're trapped in the virtsphere

21. We have talked before about the sun's rising from its west, revealing that it is an allegory of the civilization which comes from the west

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22. "The only portion of the story in which my niece used allegory was when she described them as having been smothered

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23. It constitutes an apt allegory for the individual who,

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24. the allegory of the long spoons

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25. Allegory: A figure of speech; a picture of another thing

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26. —that some religious allegory is intended to be shadowedforth

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27. Wikipedia – Allegory of the Cave – Back to reading

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28. � We can also see the hero's journey as received through epic and myth as an allegory of the unification of the becoming self, ego, and identity

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29. by some Christians, regarded as allegory or myth by

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30. style of ancient wisdom schools and sages was the use of allegory and parables to pose riddles and

31. Symbolism and allegory permeate the canons of all three

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32. If Jesus is an allegory, then what does that say about Peter and Mary

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33. This is an allegory of the Jews who were rich in God's blessing

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34. [3] This is the only parable in which some try to make an allegory literal, but only the

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35. The Holy Scriptures illustrated it in a simpler way with an allegory concerning two different fruit trees

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36. All of these legends are fragmentary references based on allegory and the symbolism of

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37. texts, the regular use of parables and allegory to frame and deliver wisdom, and the symbolic

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38. and ideas using symbols and allegory, including inference and/or allusion (not illusion) to related

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39. (3) This is the only parable in which some try to make an allegory literal, but only the

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40. (3) This is the only parable in which some try to make an allegory literal, but only the parts of it they want to be literal for they do not want the whole story to be literal

41. T…To the Idealist school of Alexandria, of which Philo is the representative, paradise was nothing more than a symbol and an allegory

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42. In the Apocalypse we have in every line the exalted style of parable and allegory, suitable to a mysterious prophecy of things only half revealed

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43. It is an allegory

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44. Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar

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45. The parable of the rich man and Lazarus is an allegory of the Jews who were rich in God's blessing

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46. Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar

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47. Today the New Testament statements and their later explanation are taken literally by some Christians, regarded as allegory or myth by some, and denied altogether by others

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48. [A] THE RICH MAN is an allegory of the Jews who were rich in God's blessing

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49. [3] This is the only parable in which some try to make an allegory literal, but only the parts of it they want to be literal for they do not want the whole story to be literal

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50. Other writings on ideal states, such as the 'Oceana' of Harrington, in which the Lord Archon, meaning Cromwell, is described, not as he was, but as he ought to have been; or the 'Argenis' of Barclay, which is an historical allegory of his own time, are too unlike Plato to be worth mentioning

51. This entire allegory, I said, you may now append, dear Glaucon, to the previous argument; the prison-house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun, and you will not misapprehend me if you interpret the journey upwards to be the ascent of the soul into the intellectual world according to my poor belief, which, at your desire, I have expressed-- whether rightly or wrongly God knows

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52. The whole landscape, which, seen by a favoring light, and in a genial temperature, had been found so lovely, appeared now like some pictured allegory of life, in which objects were arrayed in their harshest but truest colors, and without the relief of any shadowing

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53. And it was an allegory, obviously

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54. Other arrangements could be devised according to the tastes or views of those who like allegory or topical reference

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55. But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence

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56. In this classic Disney allegory Mickey is able to use his rudimentary magical skills to induce a broom to do his work for him, but soon finds that his control of the broom is not as complete as he was led to initially believe, given his success in casting the initial spell over the broom

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57. Though it was not clear what the artist meant to express by depicting the so-called King of Rome spiking the earth with a stick, the allegory apparently seemed to Napoleon, as it had done to all who had seen it in Paris,

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58. “Give me a painting with allegory

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59. “He acknowledges the truth: that the Creators’ words are allegory, and that to seek salvation one must look past them to the truth

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60. The theoretically straight path of this Brownian particle is modified by the unpredictable impact of chaotically moving surrounding molecules which—coming back from this physical allegory to the reality of the financial world—can be compared to the influence of economic and corporate news entering the market unpredictably and irregularly

61. Marni: Allegory in the French Heroic Poem of the Seventeenth Century

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62. So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory

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63. “I am sure that there is some allegory about it,” Colia persisted

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64. "What boots? What allegory is this?"

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65. "Allegory, indeed! You are laughing, I see

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66. "All that is nonsensical allegory," said Varvara Petrovna, getting angry at last

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67. "What's that? An allegory?"

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68. I supposed, naturally, that you were anxious to make your engagement known by the medium of an allegory

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69. It would be difficult to imagine a more pitiful, vulgar, dull and insipid allegory than this "literary quadrille

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70. The laughter from the crowd was, of course, provoked not by the allegory, which interested no one, but simply by a man's walking on his head in a swallow-tail coat

71. Though it was not clear what the artist meant to express by depicting the so-called King of Rome spiking the earth with a stick, the allegory apparently seemed to Napoleon, as it had done to all who had seen it in Paris, quite clear and very pleasing

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72. "What is your opinion, your Excellency," one said to the other after breakfast one day, "is the Story of the Tower of Babel true? Don't you think it is simply an allegory?"

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73. But if you are tired of following my arguments to their logical conclusions, permit me to relate to you an allegory of a Milesian youth

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74. "Oh, you cunning sage, now I understand the purpose of your allegory! And I will tell you to your face that if only a ray of light were to penetrate this gloom, I would not put the Lord on trial with unnecessary questions—"

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