Sentences with phrase «as allegories»

His works feature figures or objects — often domestic ones such as empty chairs — rendered in solid fields of color and employed as allegories for contemporary life in Ethiopia.

Ken Johnson: «Her pictures might be read as allegories of consciousness: mindscapes dominated by large, relatively slow - moving ideas — the big women — with nattering, peripheral thoughts, fantasies and anxieties carrying on like unruly children in the background.

He keeps inventing new ways to challenge our beliefs in ostensible truths and convincing lies, creating surreal stories that can be read as allegories for political events and historic accounts.

Through runny eyes, you might even read them as allegories.

Among his monumental pieces is a 200 - kilogram tornado made from barbed wire and another of a gigantic wave, both of which serve as allegories for a void, political unrest and change.

Bare breasted and tutu clad, their lips and eyes hidden by veils or obscured by black bars, these Cathara Insurgent Women recur as prominent characters in the artist's photographs, videos, artist books, and collage works on fabric, usually operating as allegories for resistance.

Santiago Muñoz captures the aspirations and imagined futures of those who are deeply invested in alternative models of being, using the stories of farmers, activists, and artists working in Puerto Rico as allegories for larger political possibilities in the region.

Santiago Muñoz's films capture the aspirations and imagined futures of those who are deeply invested in alternative models of being, using them as allegories for larger political possibilities in the region.

As allegories, they remind us that forces of nature are beyond our control.

It is time for women — and not just the semi-naked women who are sculpted as allegories for Justice or Peace — to become part of the grammar of our streets.»

The works evolve into art history as well as allegories perceived by the artist through the twist of expression given by its creator.

Gibbons intends for his paintings to act as allegories for the loss of innocence.

The biggest problem, as you yourself stated in the past Cacophanus, is that the west tends to mold large mechanized machines as allegories for the human form.

Whether you view these two pieces as allegories for our fallen times, as postmodern reconstructions of films that were never made and events that never took place, as the sustained pedantry of a lunatic, or as a comprehensive encyclopædia of human absurdity and banality, they are ingenious, kaleidoscopic works that will boggle the brain and tickle the fancy.

As allegories, the Apes films have always been messy, and there's not the least bit of subtlety in the film's political commentary.

Gene Roddenberry often pushed his series to explore stories as allegories for modern life and politics; here «Trek» becomes a Cold War story in which the Federation and a nearly bankrupt Klingon Empire are dropped into the context of a political thriller.

As allegories go, «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them» is elastic enough to support any number of readings.

Three of these, the feeding of the five thousand and the four thousand and the walking on the sea, may have originated as allegories of the power of Christ to preserve his disciples and supply their needs.

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.

The net result is the Christian religions have obfuscated the spiritual truths hidden in the Bible as allegories often wrapped in an enigma.

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.

They are not written for children, and do not function in any way as allegories.

I should have specified at the beginning that only fundamentalist Christians believe the Bible is the literal, inerrant word of God, and that many people interpret the stories as allegories.

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.

But very few Christians understand that the Gospels were originally intended as allegory, not biography.)

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

For Christians, sexual difference and union is a type of Christ and the church... Only as allegory can the Song play its central role in healing our sexual imaginations.»

Peter Leithart, Reformed Pastor: «Sex is allegory... and as allegory it is... theology.

If viewing these accounts in the bible as allegory helps you come to faith, then I know God can straighten out your thinking from there.

Genesis is best looked at as an allegory.

Looking at the OT through the lens of Christ for me means looking at it as an allegory showing our need for G * d's love.

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.

Each parable has a single focus, and distortion occurs when we try to treat it as an allegory.

I think perhaps this is what the Apostle Paul did in Galatians when he interpreted the historical narrative of Sarah and Hagar as an allegory of the two covenants.

(Inherit the Wind was supposed to be a bit like Arthur Miller's The Crucible, which also served as an allegory to McCarthy Trials.)

Pat likely doesn't believe that; however, many Christians view the Genesis account as allegory which does not «discredit» the spiritual relevance of the stories.

They may arise as overelaborated accounts of historical events, as allegory for or personification of natural phenomena, or as an explanation of ritual.

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.

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.

You and people like you rationalize it as an allegory in order to sidestep your cognative dissonance.

Evolution could be seen as God's method of creation, and the Genesis account of creation taken as an allegory, they said.

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.

Now, as an allegory we are living out the days exactly as described.

If there was any other book claiming to be the authority on everything that you kept having to make excuses for like «Well, that part is ment as an allegory» or «God years are different than man years» or «Well, its says to not eat shelfish or pork in the hebrew scriptures, but apparently God changed his mind later, but that part about ga y's stays» I don't think anyone would have given it a second look had it not been at the point of a sword.

White does not simply present Malory's romance as an allegory for the ills of his age, though he recognizes its relevance, much less as a panacea for his own afflictions in any sense other than the humble one in which all polite literature is a welcome respite from terrestrial agonies.

I also believe that the Bible is meant to be taken as allegory, not scientific fact, and that young earth creationists and evolution deniers are among the dumbest people on the planet.

And then the third person is Peter Usher, who we talked about, who had this rather extravagant theory of Hamlet as an allegory.

Like «The Zone» in Stalker, The Shimmer has been largely viewed as an allegory for different states of being.

Even though it relies on a gripping feel of intense paranoia, this is an overlong sci - fi / horror movie that suffers from certain problems in logic and kills its tension with long passages that make the pacing irregular, not even being smart enough as an allegory like the original film.

I would also argue that the shimmer is designed as an allegory for a disease that causes mental degeneration; the fact that the crew keep forgetting important events, and crew members keep disappearing without any conventional forewarning, puts us in the uncertain headspace of somebody suffering from an illness like Alzheimer's, for example.