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Example sentences for: allegory

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Panning Mason & Dixon, the New Republic 's James Wood declares Thomas Pynchon's penchant for allegory tiresome and his alleged cleverness to be overwrought and heavy-handed.
Critics applaud this anti-Soviet political allegory wrapped in a romantic drama, which is set in '50s Russia.
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.
They ingeniously recombine elements of fairy tale, religious allegory (Harry as the chosen one), half-remembered childhood reading, and pop culture (including, fairly explicitly in the case of Potter, the Star Wars cycle itself) into something new, fresh, and irresistible.
In the mystic Holy Allegory (1490) of Giovanni Bellini, we can appreciate the typical Venetian serenity even without understanding its symbols.