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Pilgrim's Progress

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noun

  1. an allegory (1678) by John Bunyan.


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Kavanaugh attended Yale College and Law School, and then began a conservative Pilgrim’s Progress.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2019

At this point the perceptive reader realizes that Rules is essentially an anti-version of Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan's great allegory of salvation.

From Golf Digest ● Dec. 17, 2018

All these manifestations of anti-Jewish feeling form the backdrop for a didactic autobiography, a kind of "Pilgrim's Progress" in which Dershowitz plays Christian, wandering through a landscape flickering with old, familiar demons.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2018

The central plot of “Lady Dynamite” tracks Bamford’s Pilgrim’s Progress toward a balanced life in Hollywood, braiding together three separate timelines, each filmed in a slightly different style.

From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2016

We had already gone through the first, Pilgrim's Progress.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

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