Sentences with phrase «allegory for»

This is an allegory for many couples seeking therapy.

Despite the happy poster images, the market for medical - assistant education is actually an allegory for the problems in the parts of higher education that tend to attract low - income and middle - class students: little regulation and uneven — often mediocre — results.

Also, stay tuned for Paul Miller's excellent and enlightening sci - fi short story allegory for how Meltdown actually works.

Whether you use Allegory for one case or multiple cases, Allegory spans the entire life cycle of your case (s).

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?

Its dark comedy was used as an allegory for the idea that fear - mongering weakens morale and costs lives.

In 2010, Liddington staged Allegory for an Opera as part of Nuit Blanche.

Henda's four - channel video installation and his three interconnected photography - series are also picking up on Dubai as an allegory for the conception, realization and destruction of modern cities; which to him makes perfect sense.

While perhaps cliched, the entire opening passage of The Eighteenth Brumaire, with its almost campy imagery of republicans festooned in the trappings of imperial Rome, might have a useful afterlife today as an allegory for contemporary art.

Absence and presence, material and process, history and site, boundary and transition, and interaction and perspective expand the vocabulary of agrarian art, turning an elegy for the heroic agrarian into an allegory for our times.

Are the images of expulsed Roma women along with the towering wall a timely allegory for current issues of immigration and exclusion?

Taken together, the reproduction of images in these works becomes a complex allegory for the reproduction of the cultural status quo — in particular the perpetuation of racial, class, and gender hierarchies in American culture.

Orozco's vision of Prometheus as an allegory for art that attempts to reach a wider audience — bringing knowledge and enlightenment to the masses — highlights the ethos of Mexican muralism to transform society.

In his writing, Kabakov poetically imagines Malevich as a headmaster selecting students for summer camp — an allegory for those artists who will — and will not — be taken into the future.»

Projected on the final wall, Mark Wallinger's Threshold to the Kingdom (2000)-- airport arrivals in slow motion accompanied by Gregorio Allegri's angelic Miserere (1582 — 1652)-- provided a moving allegory for passing into the afterlife.

The plastic objects, as well as the entire shop, are part of the work; together with the film, they form an allegory for the living and working conditions within our global society.

Kaino's short performance action results in a black, white and yellow tie - dyed pattern upon the recognizable stars and stripes and serves as a larger allegory for the growing extreme polarization of political thought in America today.

By using the binary of light and dark as an allegory for the dichotomy as a concept in general, this exhibition explores various compositional opposites such as hope and despair, familiar and foreign, human and mechanical, and real and representational.

Li Hui materializes his exceptional vision of destruction and violence in sculpture as an allegory for human sociological interactions.

Flowers form an allegory for life and death in the artist's work.

He has gained notoriety nationwide for his large - scale portraits of family and community members, as well as large - scale paintings of family quilts which serve as allegory for themes of family and faith.

Based on a small sculpture of a local carnival character, this figure appears, in overlapping, cool veils of oil on the unprimed linens, to be metamorphosing from human to bat to butterfl y to ectoplasmic specter — a perfect allegory for Doig's art of transformation, in which beauty is always a possibility but never a sure thing.

Regina Silveira Mundus Admirabilis, a large - scale site - specific graphic vinyl installation engaging the façade of SITE's building, courtyard, and mezzanine, will depict a of insects that become an allegory for global corruption and environmental degradation.

The American artist Ericka Beckman's films and videos focus on games and sport competitions and their rules and structures, featuring the underlying playing fields as an allegory for the development and maintenance of socio - cultural norms.

The exhibition will include the artist's recent video Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue)(2017), which debuted at documenta 14 in Athens and presents a powerful allegory for the experience of exile.

With practices and insights that prefigure many important discoveries in biology, chemistry and physics, alchemy likewise fascinated and continues to fascinate poets and painters, serving as an allegory for the physical manifestation of immaterial spirit.

The Art Gallery of Hamilton owns the seminal work Horse and Train, often taken as an allegory for death.

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.

In Ultima II, on the other hand, it's like an allegory for the plight of the working poor.

Tech - Gaming: While role - playing plotlines frequently use metaphor, Hyperdimension Neptunia was distinctive in creating a complete allegory for industry?

In a bizarre meta - twist, though, the plot is a loose allegory for the current console war and features characters based on the three major consoles.

When players jump into Free Dance mode, the game's allegory for ass - shaking might not seem immediately clear.

Hellblade's surface - level portrayal of psychosis has been lauded from many quarters, including being named as Game Beyond Entertainment at the recent BAFTA Game Awards, yet the adventure doubles as an allegory for life with mental illness.

surface - level portrayal of psychosis has been lauded from many quarters, including being named as Game Beyond Entertainment at the recent BAFTA Game Awards, yet the adventure doubles as an allegory for life with mental illness.

Chris Claremont was the one who decided that it was a full - on allegory for race and religion and sexuality.

I also see in it an allegory for where we are today.

The title of Kadir Nelson's If You Plant a Seed recalls the slippery - slope hijinks of a certain demanding mouse and his cookie (or moose and muffin, if you prefer), and the rabbit and mouse at the beginning of this gorgeous book certainly need to learn some manners — but fortunately they do, and their gardening efforts become a sweet allegory for the importance of kindness and sustainability.

Her world - building is so detailed and well - integrated, each character and place so well - drawn, one wonders if they truly exist somewhere... Seraphina is an engaging and innovative fantasy that uses the plights of dragons and humans as an allegory for the real prejudices we all must face.»

The book becomes an allegory for the consequences of flirting with evil.

The play stars Beatrice and Virgil, a donkey and a howler monkey, and Henry comes to see their story as an allegory for the Holocaust.

Chockfull of vivid imagery couched within a biting commentary on the information age in which we live, Palahniuk's chilling story is an allegory for the power words can wield.

The Unopened Gift is a picture book that acts as an allegory for underachieving gifted students.

With their crew, they rewrite Shakespeare's play as an allegory for the conditions permeating their daily lives, a spoken word theater piece by and about local youth.

«As a hushed, haunting portrait of a young woman reconciling daughterly duty and her own incipient power, «Thelma» feels like a stylish, timely allegory for the present moment.»

Naturally, the temptation is strong to interpret this story as an allegory for the rise of fascism, but I don't believe there is any easy key to understand it.

While Ruth skewered the abortion wars, Election was an allegory for our dysfunctional political system set in an Omaha high school.

Much of the movie is an allegory for the tribulations that accompany parenthood and balancing protective love with independence.

Some viewed King's dilemma in The Descendants as an allegory for modern - day environmentalistism.

It's also amusing in the way it works as an allegory for Hollywood — another cutthroat industry.

commentary on the elasticity of this genre model (Bond films in particular, the lead in said franchise McGoohan was offered, er, once upon a time) as allegory for the plastic - fantastic of a progressively absurd world.