Sentences with phrase «from allegory»

We are here today — actually at the Above The Law Academy for Private Practice Conference, so we are kind of recording live, even though we are recording it and we are talking right now with the guest Alma Asay from Allegory Law.

My thoughts: I welcomed the departure from allegory.

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.

«Allegorizing» should be distinguished from allegory.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

All theists decide for themselves which rules to follow and which to ignore or treat as parable or allegory from the OT & NT or there wouldn't be thousands of flavors of xtianity muchless thousands of other religions.

The word «allegory» is from the Greek allos, meaning other, and agorein, to speak publicly in the agora, meaning the public square.

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.

Yep, there are many, many Christians outside the US, but most understand that bible stories from the so - called Old Testament are primarily allegory, not literal truth.

I'm not denying the literal nature of the bible by proposing some young earth theory, or saying the bible is an allegory, nor am i denying the evidence from science.

I can think of only one thing when I read this: the prisoner who is freed from the cave in Plato's Allegory of the Cave.

Essentially two dimensional, allegory moves without variation from the plane of the narrative to the plane of the allegorical meaning in an interrelationship that must be patterned, precise.

By describing the story in traditional terms I thereby exclude from fantasy literature the allegory, which is frequently mistaken for fantasy.

When an ordinance is passed in your local state (California, in my case), do you think the legislators intend its citizens to understand the words of the regulations «in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory, free from exaggeration or distortion»?

According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, the word «literal» means «taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory, free from exaggeration or distortion.»

While commentators of an earlier generation sought to save Shakespeare and the Christian characters from the charge of intolerance and anti-Semitism by turning the play into an allegory, more recent readings often maintain, to the contrary, that Shakespeare in fact lays the groundwork for the racialist anti-Semitism of a later era in the character of Shylock.

When you asked me which parts had been debunked, and I wasn't allowed to cherry pick lines out of context that were meant to be allegory to support my claim, I in return asked what parts in the bible then are suppsoed to be metaphorical and what are literal, obviously we won't agree because you already know my stance and I know yours, neither stance is going to change, but I'm interested to know from you specifically, what in the bible is proven to be correct?

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

From Merriam Webster: Myth 1 a: a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon b: parable, allegory 2a: a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone; especially: one embodying the ideals and inst.itutions of a society or segment of society b: an unfounded or false notion 3: a person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence 4: the whole body of myths 1.

Maybe it is the grindingly long, 162 - game season, which allows for so many promising and disheartening plotlines to take shape, only to dissolve again along the way, and which sustains even the most improbable hope past any rational span; or maybe it is simply the course of the year's seasons, from early spring into mid-autumn — nature's perennial allegory of human life, eloquent of innocent confidence slowly transformed into wise resignation.

Alexandrian Judaism, however, long since had shown that the Old Testament could be interpreted by allegory so as to abstract from it any philosophy one pleased.

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.

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.

He therefore sharply differentiated allegory from parable.

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).

He wins the struggle to «make sense of Sendivogius's writings, separating the few chemical facts from the welter of theory, philosophy and allegory.

And he goes on from there; he's built — I won't try to go into any more details than that, but I mean he's got this whole lengthy sort of allegory.

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.

While the dark allegory within Suzanne Collins» 2008 publishing phenomenon remains intact, it's anchored by a remarkable performance from Jennifer Lawrence and — it has to be said — can't - look - away action.

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.

There are echoes, too, of Christian allegory and the Reichenbach Falls, as well as less literary entanglements: the mortal tango of Nagini and Severus, snake and Snape; first kisses between — well, far be it from me to tell.

A good zombie movie but also more notably a good political allegory,»28 Days Later» works off its» innovative director, even if it is not as quick paced as one might hope from a zombie flick.

More concretely, though, I don't love that in the final scene all of this wonder and madness could, from one interpretation, be reduced to an allegory about relationships torn apart and then repaired, each person different than before, in subtle or profound ways.

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.

District 9's plot takes a lot of cues from cult 80s sci - fi, most obviously the racism allegory of Alien Nation and the genetic mutation premise from Cronenberg's The Fly.

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.

The shift at the end from actuality to religious allegory is a bit of a push.

Of course, Spielberg is working in a time - honored tradition: After The Birth of a Nation, with its risible scenes of freed slaves raping and pillaging white Southerners, movies have treated this «peculiar» institution mostly at arm's length, from the happy slaves of Gone With the Wind and Song of the South to the simian allegories of King Kong and Planet of the Apes.

Adding to that impression are the bold stylistic shifts from realism to surrealism, from action to horror to lyricism to black comedy to allegory and back again.

The class implications of this allegory are painfully clear: though I suspect that Rockwell's background is more comfortable, the working - class origins of Anders, Rodriguez, and Tarantino (or at least what are perceived as his working - class origins) are central to their movies, and the myth of these filmmakers» ascendancy derives its power from the American dream.

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.

There's a seduction / rape in the picture that spools out slippery like a biblical allegory, climaxing with a message of self - abnegation written on a bathroom window and a realization by our antihero that he's doomed to learn something from the destruction of every single thing in his life that's pure, of everything that comes with the potential for a future.

In this epic allegory adapted from Nickelodeon's animated series, for 100 years the Earth, Air, and Water nations have been decimated by armies of the Fire nation.

Despite its action and revelations, its substantial political allegory and its strong performances from a tremendous cast, «The Hunger Games: Mockingkay — Part 1» still feels like one long -LSB-...]

From a fairy tale mixing bestiality and social justice to a newspaper movie that idealizes power and class privilege to pseudo-folksy allegories about revenge and chaos, Hollywood has transformed once - entertaining genres into self - gratifying lectures.

Justification comes from a correspondence between the film, specifically a brief and selected view of the life of Jack, called «Mr. Butterfly,» played by George Clooney, and a condensed allegory of the present darkening of the American Dream and its ominous future.

The film, which has been interpreted as a commentary on the empty bromides of self - help culture as well as an allegory of the AIDS crisis, became a breakthrough for both Haynes and Moore, who would go on to collaborate on such ravishing period pieces as Far from Heaven and Wonderstruck (which premiered at Cannes last month).