The love story may have been symbolic, the data suggested; a kind of spiritual allegory, but it wouldn't be incorrect to say that this material suddenly had Switters's full attention.

It stands to reason that the free or unfree birth of the girl, which Hartmann overtly wished to thematize, is also to be understood as a spiritual allegory.

The film's religious imagery, spiritual allegories and naturalistic, minimalist aesthetic style have been unanimously praised by film reviewers.

It is still a matter of discussion among theologians whether the story talks of an actual material transformation of water into wine, or is a spiritual allegory.

And over the years the Mystic River Bridge-Callahan Tunnel bewilderment began to take on the dimensions of a spiritual allegory for me, like something out of "Pilgrim's Progress."

In other words, the Bible is seen as a kind of spiritual allegory, which uses words as symbols that each point to a particular spiritual form or concept.

This reflects his tendency to create fantasy entertainment which is also political satire, or spiritual allegory.

Reviews were mixed: one reviewer found a spiritual allegory in the songs and another found it to be "banal" and "familiar".

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) of Germany painted magnificent Gothic ruins and spiritual allegories.

Others, like Abraham Rattner's keyed-up spiritual allegories, honorable in intention, come across as period pieces today.