allegorize
allegorise BrE

This work gave rise to a tendency to allegorize Biblical narratives, and to downplay the role of miracles.

Asco utilized the limited material resources available to them to allegorize their political situation.

Again, one is tempted to allegorize.

One sketch written by Mr. Wayans almost seems to allegorize his ambivalence about comedic style.

The 19th century strikes me as more nostalgic and less real, as if they were trying to allegorize themselves into a world that no longer existed."

Since the 1980's, Mr. Bowman has been using traditional painting styles to allegorize postmodernist historical and philosophical conundrums.

Milton uses the pastoral idiom to allegorize experiences he and King shared as fellow students at Christ's College, Cambridge.

The gods are relatively distant and inactive throughout much of the epic, following the Hellenistic trend to allegorize and rationalize religion.

Origen complains that "the heterodox want to allegorize" this doctrine, and to interpret it as signifying "the resurrection of human beings"!

YAHOOS Odious humanoids Swift uses to allegorize the worst traits to be found in human nature.

One can allegorize this enigmatic story any number of ways: as a fable of mutual exploitation, mutual incomprehension or the casual sadisms engendered by decaying imperialism.

Yet they allegorize the shady side of political imagination, as in "Air Superiority," in which Washington rides a giant flying eagle and wields a personal rocket launcher.

Like a grunge-generation Philip Evergood, Mr. Carpenter has created a suite of brushy, intentionally clumsy and overbearingly sentimental paintings that allegorize the plight of inner-city children.

Erasmus, who found the sundry battles, murders and revenges of the Old Testament personally offensive, proposed to allegorize them out of existence as moral struggles within the mind against the various vices.

George Arthur Buttrick, biblical scholar and principal editor of The Interpreter's Bible said that "we must be careful not to allegorize a parable" because parables have "one central beam of light".

Weller said of the plot of the episode, "The great thing about the whole Star Trek legacy is that they... metaphorize, they allegorize and they narrate what's going on the planet today".

Out front, two colossal statues allegorize Manhattan and Brooklyn; Brooklyn leans against a church spire and shelters a child reading, while Manhattan strokes a peacock and rests her foot on a locked cash box.

You can allegorize the father, if you like - call him the World War II generation, or the moribund Soviet state - or you can see him as an individual, now reduced to so much meat.

Mr. Maione makes folklike, polychromed clay sculptures that comically allegorize human lust and foolishness, and Mr. Worst creates painterly Photorealist images of young people abandoned in palatial interiors (Johnson).

By personifying both the intuitive case for Mr. Peterson's guilt and the constitutional case for the presumption of his innocence, Mr. Erickson manages to allegorize the conflict behind the production of his own movie.

At the same time, adds Mr. Slotkin, American movies were reinforcing - and in some instances, subverting - these premises through the vehicle of the western, a genre used by film makers "to allegorize a wide range of difficult or taboo subjects."

If we allegorize all that we have worked through up to now, or if we deny the clear teaching of Christ, of Paul, of Peter, and of John, we will never know what has hit us when the seventieth week begins.

Steven Millhauser, inhabitant of a sunnier, more American frame of mind, also takes the imagination as his subject, attempting, in this tightly focused collection of stories, to stage it, allegorize it, track its motives, delineate its solace, seek its limits.

The inner landscape of a poet who has seemed to allegorize her own life has become northern, bleak, full of negation; the book appears to circle obsessively about its griefs as the poet's incantations are directed toward death and the diminished self; elegy and epitaph abound.

Like many evangelical, conservative churches throughout history, compromising churches today are not careful about what is being taught the flocks - instead preferring teachers who rationalize, allegorize, spiritualize, culturalize, or semiticize Scripture, anything but taking it for what it says at face value.

Furthermore, he states that the film's "narrative can be seen to allegorise the problem of aesthetics and value."

The medieval Latin poem Eupolemius uses aptronyms based on Greek words to allegorise the story of the Gospel.

Equicola's sources were extensive, both classical and contemporary; he may have been commissioned to allegorise the marriage of Alfonso and Lucrezia Borgia in 1501.