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The phrase, he couldn't take his eyes off her is not just allegoric.

Some of my friends, who do not view the film as allegoric, complain that it is too negative.

He is known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style.

He called his former works "preparation" and started then writing complex, allegoric texts.

Behind them, on a stage, there are allegoric figures in two groups, representing the Good Government.

Allegoric representation of indecision if ever i saw one.

The allegoric sandbar helps reduce erosion of the dune (or people).

Among the allegoric elements, a peacock sits on the hut as a symbol of immortality.

Zarbalas used a lot of traditional elements with a metaphoric and allegoric approach.

Is an allegoric fable, tells the the birth of brazilian's national ethos.

The painting is an allegoric scene with the bishop's coat of arms lying on a tree in the center of the composition.

The rood screen is decorated with allegoric images of the three theological virtues Faith, hope en love.

On the facade are sculptural groups, that are allegoric representations of the subjects taught in the building.

The front has two twin bell towers and includes statues of saints and some allegoric figures.

An allegoric meaning behind the painting is plausible, given the complex Renaissance symbology of fruit.

Amillennialism An allegoric system of interpretation of prophetic events.

Samizdat, allegoric styles, smuggling, and publishing abroad were used as methods of circumventing censorship.

The central Marian figure is surrounded on four sides by allegoric figures representing angels, the devil, wisdom, and the Church.

He hardly came up with a single concrete response to Rifkind's questions and his answers were predominantly defensive, allegoric, or anecdotal.

However, the following year the lion, that had served for approximately 280 years, was replaced by an allegoric image of a "Dutch maiden of Freedom".

The allegoric statues representing the Tagus and Douro rivers in the boulevard of the avenue date from this time.

There are several public statues and reliefs in the town, which represent the allegoric union of workers, peasants and intellectuals, surrounded by traditional folk motifs.

St. Varecza the Corpse) his work became more allegoric tending forward a radical abstract-naturalistic style.

The winning entry, an allegoric bronze of a half-kneeling youth by Georg Kolbe, was not put up.

As Mark Edmundson puts it, "There is something archetypal about the world of high school, something allegoric."

The other is a study for a female allegorical figure.

It is an allegorical sea story and was his last work.

There is even a sort of allegorical truth in it.

Richard is really more an allegorical construction than a human being.

It is in fact an allegorical journey of the heart.

Mark found it vaguely allegorical of how things were done here.

The play was an allegorical attack on the colonial government.

Other details in the novel can be read at the allegorical level.

This allegorical language continues through the other parts of the work.

I offer another suggestion that is less allegorical and more to the point.

Dogs have often been used in art for allegorical purposes.

The allegorical qualities associated with each season come across as expected.

He also created a number of religious and allegorical sculptures.

All this (he says) was an allegorical description of nature.

The game takes place in a world allegorical to the spiritual aspects of the human heart.

Her work, like all allegorical art, comes down to formal manipulation.

The approach is more abstract - allegorical but not obvious.

George himself is anything but the allegorical shadow I may seem to be describing.

The result has the feeling of an allegorical comic strip.

He can still run into trouble when his work is overtly allegorical.

Recent years have seen the nude used for allegorical purposes.

The work's introduction, which features the author himself, is allegorical.

Meanwhile the author himself rejected an allegorical reading of his work.

An allegorical touch, even as party game, rightly told a 1932 public that its world was not the best of all possible.

But what would the interpretation be if that allegorical answer were not printed for all to see?