Sentences with phrase «in allegories»

Ginny Casey's paintings often cast objects and human forms in allegories for making.

Jesus was a copy writer He spoke in allegories and symbols and grand ideals, not in rote «facts» or recountings of step - by - step actions or the listing of material features.

Now Nicole Eisenman puts the «ugh» in allegories, and nothing is hipper than a little condescension.

Heavily soaked in allegories about Greece's recent financial crisis, the film begs to be understood, but if you do not have any background knowledge about the crisis, you are lost from the start.

An all - ages experience is an extremely rare thing if you think about it, but as I said earlier, if you present an audience, no matter how old, with that spark of awe; if you trust younger minds with more challenging ideas in their allegories, they will rise to the occasion.

In an allegory similar to the premise of Walter Miller's Catholic science - fiction novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, MacIntyre imagines a series of environmental disasters turning the public violently against the natural sciences:

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

No wonder it so often sought refuge in allegory!

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.

And if anyone thinks this is just a poetry written in allegory, it is the lie of the devil himself.

And if anyone thinks this is just a poetry written in allegory, it's the lie of the devil himself.

As the two sole cast members, their language barrier reducing communication to its most primitive, they fight out WWII in allegory to the bitter end.

It would be a stronger film if it was planted more firmly in its allegory, but the multiple possible understandings are a deliberate choice, no doubt.

When Dr. Perry zens him out of his oral fixation, Justin finds himself in an allegory for matriculation — that is, for being pushed out of the nest and into the frying pan.

Heady questions that are touched upon in this allegory of our era's heated struggle between religion vs. science that so dominates many of our medical and scientific research that could potentially save humanity (it's not a coincidence that the Icarus expeditions have scientists, environmentalists and psychologists), if not for the fact that some of their methods are deemed morally reprehensible by people with devout beliefs.

Frontera is what I like to call a «humanist drama», which is a drama that tackles a polarizing subject head on — this case being illegal immigration — and does it by portraying people on both sides of the issue as honest and complex, instead of as symbols in an allegory.

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

Each character represented in this allegory is intentionally and profoundly accurate in its depiction of what we see all around us, and unfortunately, what we too often see in ourselves.

The aforementioned gods are of far greater relevance in the allegory as they stand in for the first phase of healing: diagnosis.

In this allegory, drawing is born out of love and the necessity to alleviate the anguish of loss.

In this allegory of love, a man stands reverently before the power and beauty of nakedness.

Each object falls under one of four stages illuminated in the Allegory — Imagination, Belief, Thought, and Understanding — which represent the progression of human experience.

As in the allegory, a «global average» temperature obscures critical dynamics that are best understood by examining local causes of «regional climate» change.

Alma Asay: So for example, in Allegory, well, off the bat, Allegory is set up so that there is a place for everything already set up.

So up 200 files per case is free and then over that we have tiers based on the number of files, and we charge for files not gigabytes, because we want you to be able to add video and pictures, and you can play audio - visual files right in Allegory and that's been a big hit for our clients, particularly with things like deposition video.

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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.

In these ways, the allegory to Bitcoin Core is almost perfect.

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.

-LSB-...] In these ways, the allegory to Bitcoin Core is almost perfect.

The Pilgrim's Regress is an allegory of Lewis» journey to faith in Christ.

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.

In fact, Jesus is just allegory for the sun.

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.

In the past, poets had a much wider array of devices to shape their poems and delight attentive readers: argument, narrative, allegory, extended metaphor, metaphysical conceit, to name a few.

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.»

Though there have been several film versions of the Christian allegory, the latest version, which is currently in production, will likely be the biggest budget effort to date.

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 you choose the second option, and claim that it's all just an allegory for the tenacity of hope in the midst of a world gone mad, then what becomes of history's arc?

Allegory, on the other hand, is «inauthentic» speech, i.e. it does not mean what it says, but hides its meaning in symbol.

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.

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

Once again: The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of ancient metaphors, allegories, and contradictions that it can be interpreted in any number of ways to support any number of positions — hence there are over 30,000 denominations of Christianity.

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