Sentences with phrase «as allegory»

Insubordinate, heterodox, incredibly brave, smart and sassy whilst pushing the boundaries of fashion, we are inspired by Joan of Arc and her story as an allegory for for women lawyers and justice for women.

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.

The entire show could serve as an allegory of the art world, where anything seems possible but success.

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

The X-Men have long been used as allegory for social issues — racial injustice, gender equality, sexual identity — and Legion continues that tradition in the realm of mental health.

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.

Usher has taken a particular interest in Hamlet, which he sees as an allegory about competing cosmological worldviews.

Miller describes him as «a wild animal, trapped», and this could play as allegory in correlation to the many men who feel robbed of their manhood in 2015.

Grotwork also acts as an allegory of Angell's practice, as one of systematic accretion and editing, and as a physical allegory to his reverse - painted glasses, which are painted via hundreds of flecked layers of paint.

The exploits of Toad, Rat, Mole and the elusive but respected Mr Badger, stand as an allegory of what is deemed worthy in the British concept of character, and their understanding of what constitutes good and bad manners.

The main themes of the game are discovery, loss and inter-species relations (which can be seen as an allegory for race relations).

The film works best as an allegory of what men fear: loss of family, loss of profession, loss of respect, loss of sanity (resembling in this aspect the suburban unease of the director's Arlington Road), going so far as to cast a woman (Laura Linney) as the film's only representative of order.

Serving as an allegory on a cosmic marriage with the world, or her union with her art, Dawn's Wedding Feast was an environment that enveloped the viewer, overturning the notion of sculpture as an object to walk around.

For as much sound and fury Deadpool makes about breaking the boundaries of superhero convention, Zootopia is a lot quieter about its story that manages to work as an allegory about — of all unlikely subjects — racial profiling.

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.

Genesis is best looked at as an allegory.

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

Whether or not it is designed as an allegory of modern Russia, no film in recent memory has examined the growing emptiness of human relationships with such expressive force as Andrey Zvyagintsev's («Leviathan») Loveless, a heart wrenching drama about a couple on the brink of divorce whose emotional neglect of their son leads to devastating...

Among the most familiar themes were the Twelve Months, Four Seasons, and Times of Day, subjects that not only suggested the passage of time but also functioned as allegories of the course of human life.

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.

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.

Women artists were represented by, among others, Artemisia Gentileschi's Self - Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (1638 - 39), and Tracey Emin's I've Got It All (2000).

In fact, all of his works, though appearing as allegories of Chinese society, are actually straightforward dissections of his ideas about reality.

Presenting both mixed media on canvas paintings as well as leather and wood sculptures, Hlobo's newest body of work makes use of the migratory patterns of eels as a point of departure, and reconsiders as allegory the personal transformation necessary to his own artistic journey.

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

This is a crude belief and most sophisticates either laugh it off or, like not a few clerics, explain it away as an allegory.

But, the narrative strategy made famous by novelist Salman Rushdie — the telling of political history as an allegory of personal lives — is fairly obvious in the players» reaction.

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

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.»

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.

But because the Song is in the Scriptures, it has most often been moralized or spiritualized; being understood as an allegory of the love God has for his people.

There is Catholicism, which has formally accepted evolution, and have declared demonstratively impossible Bible passages as allegory rather than literal truth.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you wanted to, you could see this movie as an allegory about people who love each other but can never connect.

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.

But then there's the moment when Superman says, «You say that the world doesn't need a saviour, but when I listen to it, all I hear are people crying out for one,» and everything that's simple about this film as allegory falls away.

Being about a town where people can't discuss the past — and must always put up a happy front — «Wayward Pines» could be interpreted as an allegory about modern America.

Using provocative imagery of a cataclysmic storm, Nicols weaves a nuanced portrait of mental illness as an allegory for the unease over the economic crisis in America, and the storm that might be yet to come, a storm like no other.