Sentences with phrase «allegories with»

We don't have to equate history with allegory with poetry, or read them in the same way.

Rhinoceros Eyes is a lovely, dark fairy tale told in unembarrassed allegory with verve and intelligence.

«The Hunger Games» movies have unfolded in a relative blitzkrieg — four movies in four years — and in a fan - fueled fever that has masked some seriously silly political allegory with the thrill of survival games and the awesome star power of Jennifer...

The local sheriff with a past, a federal agent and a mother in search of her missing refugee daughter drive this allegory with a surprising conspiracy at the center.

Snowpiercer alternates between sudden violence, high camp, and heavy - handed political allegory with breakneck speed, and even when its disjoined plot mechanics seem a little too convenient, it's brimming with new cinematic technique.

While assembled with conventional visual elements and pushing a foreign oil allegory with a decided lack of subtlety, Daybreakers is a genre funhouse worth the return trip to the fatigued war zone of vampiredom.

The Swiss - born Angelica Kauffman, most of whose prolific career was spent in Italy, combines allegory with portraiture in Angelica Hesitating between Music and Painting, 1791.

She went with «Al - ugh - ories,» presumably because she finds it difficult to utter the word allegory with a straight face.

The last five years of his artistic practice focused on AIDS as a subject matter, drawing on community experience and mixing dreamlike allegory with figurative realism.

I was very excited last fall when Integreon acquired the company, and I'm now focusing on combining Allegory with the other services that Integreon offers, as well as looking at how we can deliver the best practices and technology to the entire industry.

Allegory had already built an API that allowed documents to be moved from Relativity into Allegory with the click of a button.

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A favourite is This Is Water, an essay about self - centredness by David Foster Wallace, which begins with an allegory:

The Hanfree case serves as an allegory for Kickstarter's growing pains as a crowdfunding platform, a largely new and unregulated world in which anyone with any idea — good or bad — can get paid to create it, largely without any vetting or approval process from the site itself.

The Irish poet Seamus Heaney finds in that scene an allegory for poetry: «The drawing of those characters [in the sand] is like poetry, a break with the usual life but not an absconding from it.

In the case of creationism, for example, scientific evidence now exists which contradicts directly with the creation myth (unless one thinks of the creation story as being an allegory or something like that).

The problem with Christianity is that you've taken fictional stories meant to stand as allegories and moral lessons... and attempted to force them into being literal and factual.

Perhaps with the feeding of the multitude and the walking on the sea the spiritual lesson came first, and the story grew out of it as a parable or allegory.

With the emergence of historical criticism as the dominant form of biblical interpretation, allegory was discredited as a feckless style of medieval exegesis that twisted the words and phrases of Scripture into arbitrary symbols of hidden truths.

The parables of Jesus are almost never provided with an application in the tradition; the one we have just discussed is an exception to the rule and the esoteric explanations of the parables in the tradition make the parables allegories and are certainly not from Jesus.

Radha is parakiya, another - man's woman, (6) and her liaison with Krishna, whatever its powerful meaning in mystical allegory, is plainly adulterous (7) in human terms.

But when I bring any of them up to one of the fundies I work with, they always sluff it off as either allegory or a scribe's error.

as an adult i realized that it is infinitely difficult to have a personal relationship with anything described in any book of the bible, though it is very possible to relate to the book, as allegory, or possibly history.

The book was revolutionary for combining science - based fantasy with spiritual allegories inspired by L'Engle's own deep Christian faith.

So when Ed Underwood came out with an allegory about finding God's will, I was excited to read it, especially on a topic like finding God's will.

It may be a heavy - handed allegory, but Neill Blomkamp's sci - fi blockbuster is part of a wave of recent films concerned with humanity's future — none of... More

He has recently published a book with Tyndale called The Trail which is an allegory about finding God's will.

This has got to be one of the worst allegory stories for God I've ever seen, with all due respect, Robert.

It is neither a simple figure of speech nor an allegory, which is sometimes confused with it.

In this allegory full of poetic images, wisdom is personified as a woman — a kind of hostess with the mostest.

Luke has introduced allegory in connection with the servant who is sent out three times, to the original guests (= Jews), to the poor, etc., within the city (= outcasts among the Jews) and to travelers on the highways outside the city (= Gentiles).

Most of the parables, however, have been considerably modified in the tradition; they were transformed into allegories, supplied with new conclusions, interpreted and reinterpreted, and always under the pressure of meeting the need of the Church in a changing situation.

Lear's own compelling phenomenology of irony fits, I think, rather nicely with Plato's insight that knowing involves the hierarchical logic of image and exemplar, described most famously in the Analogy of the Divided Line and the Allegory of the Cave.

I've talked with Jews about this matter, and they said the stories in the Torah (Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, etc.) aren't meant to be taken as literal, historical facts, but as allegories and moral tales.

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.»

The end of the play would be much more comfortable for us if we could treat the Portia of the trial scene as an allegory of the Divine Judge who forces Shylock (the allegorical sinner) to relinquish all his wealth with the conditional restoration of a part of it upon his baptism» that is, he must throw down everything he has and follow Christ.

But Pauline allegory, together with that of Tertullian and Origen, which depend on it, is inseparable from the mystery of Christ.

Pagan allegory served to reconcile myths with philosophy and consequently to reduce them as myths.

It was a dramatized allegory, complete with sound effects, of the football game of life.

The flight of Jonah is Israel's refusal of her world - wide mission; the swallowing of Jonah is the Exile, and his disgorging, the return; the continued surliness of Jonah is Israel's postExilic blindness to her international obligations; the repentance of Nineveh is a prophecy of the world won to righteousness; and the sullen prophet at the allegory's end stands for the stubbornness with which Israel retains her nationalistic ill will.

I don't have a problem with you reading Genesis as an allegory, but I hope you can see that there is resonant meaning here beyond your limited understanding.

All this «debate» will finally (hopefully) end when the Bible is read with the understanding of what is allegory, metaphor, parable, dogma, and history within it's 2 covers.

Luther made an allegory of it — the Pope and Satan raging against souls that had been saved even in spite of Luther; but great people would find themselves with difficulty avoiding hell.

«We should not concern ourselves with conceptions and allegories, when we have the opportunity to find a historical person, the one who has had the greatest influence in the world.

Written with courage and poignancy, this allegory from First Things» poetry editor ambitiously tries to take a step back from our society in order to show how America has drifted into becoming a nation that now seems to be waffling, especially in the face of the upcoming presidential election.

Until recently, that sort of fiddling with human DNA was only science fiction and allegory, a warning against a new kind of eugenics that could pit the genetic haves and have - nots against each other.

Trigger - happy soldiers shoot Klaatu and whisk him away to a government facility from which he subsequently escapes and disappears into the city, blending in with common Earthlings and eventually taking up residence in the home of single mom Helen Benson (Patricia Neal) under the assumed name, Mr. Carpenter, (to reinforce the allegory lest anyone missed the biblical overtones).

So pretty much everything Terminator has, Battlestar Galactica has too — plus fleet - on - fleet space combat, an insightful allegory to our post-9 / 11 world, and a wickedly layered narrative with three - and - a-half seasons of buildup.

Still, it was a very effective movie, and was successful at making me think, so I still would give it a «thumbs up», though I think the critics are wetting themselves over it mainly because it's «allegorical» (which is probably a pleasant change from all the mindless explosions we've had to deal with this summer) but I don't really like allegory.

But director Neill Blomkamp keeps both the allegory and the pain in close check - he never hits us over the head with it.

The Danish iconoclast holds strong ideas about our society, and expresses them in satiric allegories of such audacity that we cast loose from realism and simply float with his conceits.