Sentences with phrase «as allegory in»

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.

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

Not exact matches

It is a hamfisted cautionary tale about global warming (which, via the film's scientific hand - waving, produces an ice age), but it also functions as a powerful 9/11 allegory, celebrating the ability of New Yorkers to unify in the face of tragedy.

The firm's name, Costanoa, refers to the indigenous Ohlone people that lived in what's now commonly referred to as Silicon Valley, but it's also an allegory for what Sands wants to accomplish.

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.

He also uses imagery and allegory to good effect, such as the reference to playing table tennis on a moving train: The ball may appear to be bouncing back and forth, but in the grand scheme it's really moving only in one direction.

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).

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

Could the story of the Fall be an allegory for the origins of humanity's tendency to sin based not on «original sin» but on the freedom given to humanity in Genesis 1 and the responsibility given in Genesis 1 to govern ourselves and this world as free agents, not puppets or childishly dependent on God?

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.»

This, despite one murder occurring in a church (A Taste for Death, 1986), a novel set in a theological college (Death in Holy Orders, 2001), another named Original Sin (1994), still another titled directly from the Book or Common Prayer (Devices and Desires, 1989), as well as an apocalyptic Christian allegory (The Children of Men, 1992).

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.

Certainly these are allegories for an internal, undeniable, unsought for, unmeasurable experience which leaves a previously non-theistic person in a state of certainty that there is, in fact, a benevolent, guiding force upon them individually and upon us all as creatures of a loving power?

Both the message and the allegory have been sturdy traditions in Christian literature and, as Lynch suggested in his comments on the univocal imagination, they share the characteristic of tending to flatten out the complexities of historical life for the sake of the «idea.»

In that sustained religious allegory of moral heroism and imagery both vivid and frightening, the reader lives through Christian's travails and all - too - human backsliding, until finally tasting his victory as one's own.

Allegory in Christian usage means interpreting the Old Testament as a book about Christ.

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.

If we didn't have the tools to understand the cosmos, would Chad or other christians insist that the Genesis account was just a model or allegory, or would they be screaming just as loudly that Genesis was absolutely correct - and they knew that by faith and trust in god's word?

For instance, since «Bush has been remarkably successful in persuading the American people to endorse a simple allegory of good and evil,» Donoghue complains, «it would be difficult, in these lurid circumstances, to read Moby - Dick as anything but a revenge play.»

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

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

Then he is able to move from this to the conditions of the ministry of Jesus itself as they differed from these, in particular, the use of parable as distinct from allegory and the relationship to the Kingdom of God proclamation.

The fantasy story must be significant in its own right and not, as in allegory, always subservient to the interpretation — a situation that casts reins and boundaries upon the imagination.

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.

Stephen Greenblatt, for instance, in Renaissance Self - Fashioning (1980), the foundational work of the New Historicism, reads Othello as a virtual allegory of the European conquest of the New World.

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In addition to a helpful glossary and an indispensable index, The Literary Guide features some useful and, in several instances, excellent general essays such as Helen Elsom's superb treatment of the New Testament and Greco - Roman literature, Gerald L. Bruns's brilliant study of midrash and allegory, and an interesting essay by Alter on the characteristics of ancient Hebrew poetrIn addition to a helpful glossary and an indispensable index, The Literary Guide features some useful and, in several instances, excellent general essays such as Helen Elsom's superb treatment of the New Testament and Greco - Roman literature, Gerald L. Bruns's brilliant study of midrash and allegory, and an interesting essay by Alter on the characteristics of ancient Hebrew poetrin several instances, excellent general essays such as Helen Elsom's superb treatment of the New Testament and Greco - Roman literature, Gerald L. Bruns's brilliant study of midrash and allegory, and an interesting essay by Alter on the characteristics of ancient Hebrew poetry.

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.

Sometimes, as also among the rabbis, allegory and parable overlap, and we are not in a position to reject those parables which seem to convey more than one meaning or, for that matter, the explanations of the parables which occur in the gospels themselves.

As the Celtics» radio broadcaster for 37 years until his retirement in 1990, Most spun a grand allegory of good and evil in which Boston's pure - of - heart warriors were pitted against scoundrels and thugs.

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.»

The novelty of Mastermind — a book that barely rises above its origins as blog posts — is in introducing these same ideas through the language and allegory of Conan Doyle's stories.

So, black holes as well as being sort of agencies of doom and destruction in the end of time and allegories of halo and all the rest of it, are also bringers of life.

MovieMan, In Pan's Labyrinth it didn't bother me, because the Spanish Civil War was approached more like an atypical backdrop for a fantasy movie, unlike in District 9, where the film purports itself to be an allegory by having Johannesburg as the settinIn Pan's Labyrinth it didn't bother me, because the Spanish Civil War was approached more like an atypical backdrop for a fantasy movie, unlike in District 9, where the film purports itself to be an allegory by having Johannesburg as the settinin District 9, where the film purports itself to be an allegory by having Johannesburg as the setting.

There are allegories in play here, but nothing as potent or easy to sink your teeth into as there was in Isaac's previous collaboration with writer / director Alex Garland, «Ex Machina.»

And yet these weighty themes don't manifest themselves organically, with the characters drawn in a manner that makes viewing the film as either of the above allegories a trying exercise.

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.

In what could well be the least subtle national allegory ever committed to film, an awkwardly placed, extended flashback reveals why protagonist Jacky (Schoenaerts) is obsessed with bulking up: just as he was beginning to develop sexually, his balls were irreparably smashed with a rock by a deranged French kid.

Spare, slow and beautiful, Kelly Reichardt's revisionist Western is an effective allegory about bad leadership in America, but it's as a minimalist tribute to women pioneers that it excels.

In John Ford's rueful 1946 allegory about the human cost of America's new role as global peacekeeper, Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) agrees to clean up Tombstone, Arizona, as a pretext for revenging his teenage brother's murder by Old Man Clanton (Walter Brennan) and his rustler sons.

In the case of Pacific Rim, apparently not much as director Guillermo del Toro seems determined to make sure the film does not to come across seriously, which is disappointing considering del Toro's background making both dark fantasy films with political allegories and creative comic book adaptations.

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.

Looking at the Mimic series as a sort of allegory of the dangers of technology is a given; locating a man - child, his room encased in a plastic sheath and taking pictures of his neighbours for a collage on his wall, as the centre of a Mimic sequel is something like a stroke of (derivative) genius.

Still, what works in Happy Times is what has worked in this director's best work (Shanghai Triad, Raise the Red Lantern, Red Sorghum): mordant social critique so far removed from realism that its status as political allegory is as subtle as a neon sign and a crack to the noggin.

This alarming horror film, a brilliant debut for Australian director Jennifer Kent, is as hard to shake as its title character whether you take it as a straightforward monster film, a mental illness or grief allegory, or get hung up on its minefield of taboos (mothers who don't much like their children / over-medication of children / weapons in schools).

Here I expect the differences in species to be a possible plot point (an allegory to the current racial / religious / class divide) as well as the definition of what makes a family (Arlo, the dinosaur is an orphan).