"biblical" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Where Brecht projected his nihilistic vision onto an imaginary city in Florida, Schoenberg made his critique of hedonistic life styles in the form of a biblical allegory.
- If there is a play anywhere in all this, it will not be found in biblical allegory and bedside theology but in the details of the characters' lives.
- Archetypes and symbols solemnly parade through "Seraphim Falls," a handsome, old-fashioned western of few words and heavy meanings that unfolds with the sanctimonious grandeur of a biblical allegory.
- Robinson is correct to point out that many of literature's great works are based, to varying degrees, on biblical allegories.
- But the director speaks of a psychological thriller, the title points to a biblical allegory and the scriptwriter insists he has sold Hollywood an adaptation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
- The work is loosely based on the biblical allegory of Jonah and the Whale, although Tavener admitted that "The 'fantasy' grew and perhaps at times nearly 'swallowed' the biblical text: so the swallowing of Jonah became almost 'literal' in the biblical sense."
- But Disney's tricky marketing strategy for "Narnia" - which includes aggressively courting Christian fans who can relate to the story's biblical allegory while trying not to disaffect secular fans - is particularly tricky when it comes to music.
- And there is something of the force and strangeness of a biblical allegory in the problem Dershowitz has built here.
- He often uses archaic analogies and biblical allegories, such as referring to Alex as the "Young Pliable".
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