Sentences with phrase «allegories represented»

Most reviews do a better job of explaining what the political allegories represented than the film did, which seem just political hammering in one direction or another.

Not exact matches

As an allegory about humanity's moral freedom, the Tree of Life would represent the instinctual innocence of the animals and very young children.

In his celebrated Christian allegory The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis represents evil's hold on the world with the image of an enduring winter — Narnia under the power of the White Witch, who makes it «always winter and never Christmas.»

Pilgrim's Progress, cited by Braithwaite, was an influential guide to behaviour only because it was read as an allegory faithfully representing the way of life recommended by the Bible and supported by the claims therein about God and the world.

Mr. Dauda Joki - Lasisi, Head of Procurement and Fraud Section of the EFCC who represented the agency at the report launch said that, «The fight against corruption can be likened to an allegory of a giant in the midst of ants, as little as an ant is, it may not be able to wear the trouser of a giant, but will remove it.»

Horror has always had an easy relationship with allegory, so much so that zombies ambled off into their own cottage industry and have come to represent everything from unfettered capitalism to technological paralysis.

On a surface level, it essentially represents a children's version of The Matrix, thought much lighter on the Christian allegory.

Each character represented in this allegory is intentionally and profoundly accurate in its depiction of what we see all around us, and unfortunately, what we too often see in ourselves.

But 2010's Hyperdimension Neptunia was the first franchise to construct an elaborate allegory for our precious pastime, imagining a realm where four goddess battle for market share - each representing a different console.

The motif (represented by two paintings in this show) is linked not only to Van Gogh, but also to an allegory of mortality.

It's a kind of peaceable kingdom of the plant world, itself representing the cross-continental hybrid allegory of human migration.

For example, The Black Sun, 2010, an ultra-daylight, white - neon circle, is essentially concerned with the mystical transformation of the self as represented by the allegory of the eclipse and the notion of the dark night of the soul.

We are immediately reminded of «Flora,» represented in Botticelli's «Allegory of Spring», a profusion of flowers coming out of her mouth.

The title of this volume, The Progress of Love, refers to a group of 18th - century paintings by Jean - Honoré Fragonard, who represented love as a contemporary phenomenon rather than in the guise of allegory or fiction.

Each object falls under one of four stages illuminated in the Allegory — Imagination, Belief, Thought, and Understanding — which represent the progression of human experience.

These representations soften distinctions between illustration and allegory through the restaging of real objects that have been scanned and represented in virtual space.

The enormous cavernous figure is represented as a narcissistic «thinker», part statue, part cyborg, a confluence of allegories and histories that, in Leckey's words, has become «metalized, gauzified, vegetalized and petrified, a medieval gnostic gone septic, its body now merely a thing amongst things — the spirit has departed the flesh.»

While the Divine Comedy ``... describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven; at a deeper level it represents allegorically the soul's journey towards god (truth)»; am I going so far as to say that that legal citation is an allegory for the legal soul's journey towards truth?