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Example sentences for: allegories

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The Designated Mourner is one of those sobering allegories set in the not-so-distant future in a country not unlike our own.
Other things that come to mind are The Who with their rock operas, Tommy and Quadrophenia , the way they presented those as overarching allegories about everything, and Pete Townshend, who always seemed so humorless about it all.