Sentences with phrase «allegorical tale»

The simple love story set on a pastoral landscape becomes a profound allegorical tale of harmony and discontinuity, love and hate, hopes and fears, and good and evil.

An eerie allegorical tale told largely through dialogue, The Childhood of Jesus is a literary feat - a novel of ideas that is also a tender, compelling narrative.

Though written too broadly to serve as the powerful allegorical tale writer / director Christina Yao intends, this historical epic is just compelling enough to be taken on its own terms.

Spanning his nation's history through a series of heavily allegorical tales, Gomes's epic does nothing less than capture the soul of a battered but brilliant country.

This dark, allegorical tale juxtaposes a rural existence with artificial modern life and examines love, relationships, and family.

It may not be so hard to understand, should users keep this decades - old allegorical tale in mind.

Needless to say, there is a lot at work under the surface of this story, as it is an allegorical tale that relates the events of the rise of Stalin and the Soviet Union before the second World War II.

It's an allegorical tale written by Paulo Coelho about a young boy on a quest to fulfill his destiny.

You know, William Golding's classic novel about boys creating their own vicious society, an allegorical tale about brutal masculinity.

Douro, Faina Fluvial was followed by more documentary shorts, from 1932 to 1941, until he made his feature debut with the aforementioned Aniki - Bóbó in 1942, an allegorical tale shot in a spare, direct manner, with a cast composed for the most part of children.

Telling the story of a boy's search for his missing dog, this allegorical tale revisits the stop - motion techniques that made Fantastic Mr. Fox such a huge success.

Suffused with a quiet radiance, this Kazakh New Wave masterpiece grapples with cultural displacement through an allegorical tale of vengeance.

In a happy ending to this allegorical tale, she soon finds that her friends don't care that she is different.

The same story is told in Orwell's Animal Farm, an allegorical tale about a socialist revolution gone wrong in which a group of pigs overthrow the human farmers and run the farm into ruin.

Though it bore little resemblance to George Orwell's classic fable, the piece did tell an allegorical tale: namely, how mismanagement by the Chicken Trustees of Bruce High Quality Foundation University jeopardized 150 years of no - tuition policy at the noted art school — a crisis that the loyal alums, aka Piggy Artists, now strive to rectify.

For the first nine years of his career, he focused on the creation of an epic, allegorical tale, shaped, in part, by the Biblical stories with which he grew up.

Another crucial text in Taoism is the «Chuang Tzu», an often funny collection of allegorical tales and poetry.