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- verb Present participle of
allegorize .
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Examples
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Course of Empire was itself a new take on a previous series, taking the old manufacturing buildings of Ruscha's Blue Collar Paintings of the early '90s and their angled perspective, and allegorizing the changes of globalism and economic decline.
Evan J. Garza: Psycho Spaghetti Westerns: Ed Ruscha at Gagosian Beverly Hills Evan J. Garza 2011
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Obviously allegorizing the man's name for thematic impact, London portrays Fortune as feeling that Fortune's own account of how he came to murder Randolph is enunciated in classic deterministic terms.
“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010
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Course of Empire was itself a new take on a previous series, taking the old manufacturing buildings of Ruscha's Blue Collar Paintings of the early '90s and their angled perspective, and allegorizing the changes of globalism and economic decline.
Evan J. Garza: Psycho Spaghetti Westerns: Ed Ruscha at Gagosian Beverly Hills Evan J. Garza 2011
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It was Adolf Julicher who sounded the death – knell in allegorizing the Parables that had bedeviled their interpretation throughout the centuries.
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Though Islamic philosophers had a independent, religious tradition of allegorical literature from which they could draw, the allegories from medieval Islamic thinkers tend to concern the same Neoplatonic themes of the ascent of the soul and the Neoplatonic structure of the cosmos, allegorizing the stages of emanation from and return to the One.
Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy Sweeney, Eileen 2008
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Readers up on Carr's recent writings on terrorism may wonder, however, if there's some allegorizing going on when it comes to the workings or not of Victoria's intelligence agents.
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Readers up on Carr's recent writings on terrorism may wonder, however, if there's some allegorizing going on when it comes to the workings or not of Victoria's intelligence agents.
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The key aspects of this allegorization are suggested, or indeed inscribed, in the inscription, itself already allegorizing the materiality of inscription and the material carpentry of inscription of the couplet just cited in Plate 6.
Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001
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Their own habits of allegorizing, and their Oriental tastes, must be borne in mind, if we are readily disgusted with our author's fancies and refinements.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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The two kinds of mimickry both suggest attempts at self-measurement: the first a tacit admission of his lesser status vis-a-vis the contemporary pantheon, the second poignantly allegorizing his lack of access to the inheritance of cultural capital.
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