| His films are more caliginous dream states than easily explained allegories. |
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| The baroque style with its florid language and stock allegories lasted longer in Ukraine than in Western Europe. |
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| His epigrammatic paragraphs turn the photographs they puzzle over into allegories and metaphors. |
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| The hillwalking which claimed Robin Cook's life yesterday was a pastime with many allegories to his political career. |
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| I could paint allegories, elegies and epic statements because the imagery was so strong and the colours of life were so rich. |
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| There are terse and objective descriptions of observed phenomena, apothegmatic passages, riddles and allegories, as well as fanciful narratives. |
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| It is unlikely, in contrast to Mantegna, that he devised his own allegories, though he was well known in Medicean humanist circles. |
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| Obscure slices of history and allegories abound and every spot comes alive with some parable or other. |
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| These are not candidates who represent ideas and programs so much as allegories representing human weaknesses and failings. |
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| Simply put, Burns reads pictures as allegories of class interest and identity. |
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| He mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world. |
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| It contains short biblical passages with explanatory commentaries, often in the form of moralizations, allegories, and analogies. |
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| Indeed, his serial attacks on certain subjects, be they flowering trees or allegories of encroaching blindness, suggest a bullheaded tenacity. |
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| Between the oddments and the allegories, the forks and the grand set pieces, this exhibition richly bears that out. |
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| Lewis repeatedly denied that the Narnia stories were allegories. |
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| Johann Christoph Handke painted the pendentive dome with allegories of the up until that time known continents. |
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| Both are outrageous tales of multiple murder, allegories about a troubled Britain in transition. |
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| Ranged around this central group are allegories of the Habsburg Crown Lands, each with its resources. |
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| The interpretation of types, shadows and allegories has always been a dangerous and somewhat subjective art. |
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| This alchemy is related to what we know later as astrology, a system of allegories and indicators that was a precursor of astronomy. |
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| Even until recent times physicians used allegories about metals to refer to certain illnesses. |
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| The goal of making modern allegories legible and edifying to a general public without compromising their timeless universality was fraught with risk. |
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| These patients are not feel-good allegories for the potential within all of us. |
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| Later works, like The Croquet Player, are fables or political allegories. |
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| At a news conference, Lucas acknowledged the political allegories of the saga, which could have contemporary resonance although he wrote it at the time of the Nixon era. |
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| Half a century's work, from archaic allegories to unpointed lyrics to secular prophecy and wisdom verses. |
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| Furthermore, it is fair to say that like other well established tasks in inter-community relations, interpretation has cultural roots which combine needs, allegories and myths. |
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| One way or another, allegories of redemption figure in most of the remaining poems, which deal with what has passed and what remains, and with the pain or solace of memory and night. |
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| In Jack London's urban gothic, the city's teratological economy comes to light in grotesque animal allegories. |
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| Le Brun gave free rein to his inventive genius, producing a whole panoply of allegories, trompe-l'oeil painting, illusionistic perspectives and real or illusionistic stuccowork. |
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| These are little allegories of disability where someone's inner wounds are shown expressionistically, outwardly. |
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| For the guildhall of the Steelyard Holbein painted two monumental allegories, The Triumph of Wealth and The Triumph of Poverty, both now lost. |
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| Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time. |
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| Specific analogical language comprises exemplification, comparisons, metaphors, similes, allegories, and parables, but not metonymy. |
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| He created a number of free art prints with allegories of the seasons. |
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| Playing safe necessitated tangential allegories. |
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| The inspired authors have expressed themselves using a variety of literary forms: hyperbolae, metaphors, comparisons, similes, allegories, irony, paradoxes, etc. Some things such as oil, gold, fire have some special meanings. |
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| The dining room is full of the light that comes through the large and diaphanous stained glass windows on which are represented allegories with fruits and flowers sorrounded by inscriptions. |
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| Reconciliation is a call for high-minded level of dialogue in resolving clashes of ideas and ideals, interest and values, categorical allegories and the living truth. |
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| Superman Returns'' is a comic book movie for people who like virtuous superheroes, soap-opera story lines and blatant messianic allegories. |
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| His English coronation took place on 25 July, with elaborate allegories provided by dramatic poets such as Thomas Dekker and Ben Jonson. |
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| This world-picture is gradually created by an at the same time stubborn and traditional image of complex allegories and symbols, sentimental walks and letters, precious objects and materials, busy bees and threatened trees. |
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| A confirmed humanist, the collector has a penchant for rare literary subjects, muddled allegories and amorous ecstasies, whether sacred or profane. |
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| It is a great gift to a writer, this early knowledge that there will always be people who don't know the world you're writing about, will miss allegories and allusions, and yet will love your books. |
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| Most of the sections, after the portion Bereshit expound biblical narratives, notably the deeds of the patriarchs, as allegories of the fate of the soul. |
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| Some works are examined thematically, such as his Madonnas, Allegories, the lost Leda and the Swan, and recently discovered sketches for the unexecuted sculpture Hercules. |
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