allegoric
- a variation of allegorical.
Example Sentences
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The film flirts with themes of surveillance and immigrant anxieties, but its allegoric ambitions are continually thwarted by yet another neighborly grievance.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
Grated, a few allegoric parallels to modern societal ills stand out, particularly when Buckingham’s servants clash with Downton’s staff.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2019
Made in 1953, two years before Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night summed up his ironic discussion of the domestic predicament, A Lesson in Love lacks the assurance and allegoric precision of that picture.
From Time Magazine Archive
Things look their most unexpected, masquerade as other things, get queer unintelligible allegoric meanings, leaving you to guess what it all means, a constant dumb crambo of trees, flowers, animals, houses, and moonlight.
From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Lee, Vernon
The 'Pilgrim's Progress,' though professedly an allegoric story of the Protestant plan of salvation, is conceived in the large, wide spirit of humanity itself.
From Bunyan by Froude, James Anthony
