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Example sentences for: allegory

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In the mystic Holy Allegory (1490) of Giovanni Bellini, we can appreciate the typical Venetian serenity even without understanding its symbols.
For Degas, who had forsworn self-portraiture for 30 years, this double image has the weight of allegory: The aging and celibate artist has purchased a score of creative years at the price of physical collapse.
Star Wars hoopla visits academia, reports the Dallas Morning News . Some scholars view the original Star Wars film as a simplistic Cold War allegory that helped to legitimize Ronald Reagan's view of the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" and to build popular support for a "star wars" missile defense.
In his raucous, vaudevillian allegory Dogma , Kevin Smith concocts a scenario in which the will of God comes apocalyptically into conflict with Catholic doctrine.
Instead, her books get their depth from a combination of allegory and genuine human interactions that haven't been pre-chewed.