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Definition of allegorical in English: allegoricaladjective ˌalɪˈɡɒrɪk(ə)lˌæləˈɡɔrək(ə)l Constituting or containing allegory. 讽喻的,寓言的 一幅讽喻画。 Example sentencesExamples - Nowhere do we see a case for Rowling being as allegorical as C.S. Lewis or as skilled with metaphor as Roald Dahl.
- They never acquire the independent meaning of a neat allegorical subtext.
- His most characteristic works were figures or groups of a historical, literary, allegorical, or symbolic nature.
- A jaunty cow recounts an allegorical tale of bad blood in the herd.
- The narrative voice, too, is made vivid: never before in English has the poem sounded less allegorical and more humane.
- Such a view of the world was inclined toward mystical and allegorical meaning of reality and truth.
- The elements are represented by four allegorical pictures and in the centre of the pavement the mask of Medusa is portrayed.
- He himself denied any allegorical significance in his work.
- In fantasy writing the allegorical quality is simply more obvious.
- In a society dominated by allegorical and historical painting, his scenes of contemporary life were regarded as a novelty.
- Strikingly, most children read Narnia as a simple fantasy story and do not recognise the Christian allegorical nature of the plot.
- His narratives, in which he translates current events, are too allegorical to be history, yet too mutable to be myth.
- The film is rich in allegorical theme and symbolic imagery, transforming the most banal of materials into miraculous epiphanies.
- Melville specifically denies at the beginning of his story that it is allegorical - which it patently is.
- I'm always a little nervous about allegorical poems, especially when the subject of the allegory is a long time ago in a land far, far away.
- Jahangir commissioned some of the most powerful allegorical paintings to emerge from the Mughal School.
- It is also fitting that she chose such an allegorical, almost mystical way to present such a brutal act.
- Vietnamese songs are very metaphoric and very allegorical and very soft.
- Their paintings have no hidden sides to them, no allegorical finesse.
- I just can't join the bandwagon of rabble rousers determined to endow basic biological functions with allegorical status.
Synonyms symbolic, metaphorical, figurative, representative, emblematic, imagistic, mystical, parabolic, symbolizing rare tropical
Derivativesadjective ˌalɪˈɡɒrɪkˌæləˈɡɔrɪk The allegoric dimension is irresistible - as darkness descends on film's old magic of chemistry and optics, its offspring, video, is coming into the light. Example sentencesExamples - Whilst he writes of his anxiety for the future, he also takes the stoic attitude I remember so well in him when he writes, in part (in somewhat allegoric French): ‘There you have it, the life of a new immigrant.’
- In his later films Pasolini preoccupied himself with the poetic, allegoric, and mystic in search of a purity of experience that he believed civilisation and modernity had despoiled.
- The long robe of the allegoric figure as well as her appearance over water would be familiar to the majority of the nominally Catholic French nation as an allusion to the Virgin Mary.
- It's been described as an allegoric journey of the evolution of human consciousness.
adverb ˌalɪˈɡɒrɪkliˌæləˈɡɔrək(ə)li Do you mean for viewers to interpret the film allegorically? Example sentencesExamples - There are exquisite touches, executed with extraordinary skill: the allegorically suggestive tear in the curtain; the artist's helpless dishabille; the uniquely knowing expression on the face of the central woman.
- The second mitigating factor is that Crowley uses the entirety of time travel allegorically, as a metaphor for British colonialism.
- All scripture and religious doctrine that conflict with reason must be interpreted allegorically, so as to express moral insights.
- The physical disruptions to space in Farrell's photographs work allegorically to describe the ruptures of memory and landscape.
Rhymesahistorical, categorical, historical, metaphorical, oratorical, phantasmagorical, rhetorical Definition of allegorical in US English: allegoricaladjectiveˌaləˈɡôrək(ə)lˌæləˈɡɔrək(ə)l Constituting or containing allegory. 讽喻的,寓言的 一幅讽喻画。 Example sentencesExamples - Melville specifically denies at the beginning of his story that it is allegorical - which it patently is.
- He himself denied any allegorical significance in his work.
- Such a view of the world was inclined toward mystical and allegorical meaning of reality and truth.
- His most characteristic works were figures or groups of a historical, literary, allegorical, or symbolic nature.
- Vietnamese songs are very metaphoric and very allegorical and very soft.
- In fantasy writing the allegorical quality is simply more obvious.
- Jahangir commissioned some of the most powerful allegorical paintings to emerge from the Mughal School.
- The elements are represented by four allegorical pictures and in the centre of the pavement the mask of Medusa is portrayed.
- The narrative voice, too, is made vivid: never before in English has the poem sounded less allegorical and more humane.
- His narratives, in which he translates current events, are too allegorical to be history, yet too mutable to be myth.
- They never acquire the independent meaning of a neat allegorical subtext.
- I just can't join the bandwagon of rabble rousers determined to endow basic biological functions with allegorical status.
- The film is rich in allegorical theme and symbolic imagery, transforming the most banal of materials into miraculous epiphanies.
- A jaunty cow recounts an allegorical tale of bad blood in the herd.
- It is also fitting that she chose such an allegorical, almost mystical way to present such a brutal act.
- In a society dominated by allegorical and historical painting, his scenes of contemporary life were regarded as a novelty.
- Their paintings have no hidden sides to them, no allegorical finesse.
- Strikingly, most children read Narnia as a simple fantasy story and do not recognise the Christian allegorical nature of the plot.
- Nowhere do we see a case for Rowling being as allegorical as C.S. Lewis or as skilled with metaphor as Roald Dahl.
- I'm always a little nervous about allegorical poems, especially when the subject of the allegory is a long time ago in a land far, far away.
Synonyms symbolic, metaphorical, figurative, representative, emblematic, imagistic, mystical, parabolic, symbolizing |