Sentences with phrase «make allegories»

This does not, of course, mean that we should try to make an allegory of the passage or drag out of it a moral that was never intended.

Luther made an allegory of it — the Pope and Satan raging against souls that had been saved even in spite of Luther; but great people would find themselves with difficulty avoiding hell.

Shyamalan doesn't paint his villagers motivations as right or wrong, and his reticence to make an allegory of his tale may leave some viewers frustrated.

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Like Bunyan, Lewis uses allegory to make his points.

SS, your stating that,» I do not condemn / throw a fit over how someone lives» is a proof positive that you are either a liar or one who fails to see one's own wordives before one makes such a blasphemous allegory.

Complex subjects will always require complex minds and we will have to accept that others may not ever fully understand, making up allegories, parables, metaphors etc. to help them do so.

Does my allegory sound far - fetched — just some words strung together to make a speech?

This is not how Caldecott thinks, and certainly not how Tolkien wrote: he made his distaste for this kind of obvious allegory very clear.

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.

Rather, both are interested in making a profound political point through an attention - grabbing allegory.

[19] Barfield makes the distinction between Allegory, the hypostatisation (ascribing material existence to) of ideas, and myth; «the true child of Meaning, begotten on imagination.»

Finally, he has added a version of the rabbinical parable of the unprepared guests, referred to above, to make the whole an allegory of the mixed state of the Church and the sorting - out process of the future judgement of God, a theme characteristic of his gospel (allegories of weeds of the field, 13.24 - 30, 36 - 43, dragnet, 13.47 - 50, sheep and goats, 25.31 - 33).

In his celebrated Christian allegory The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis represents evil's hold on the world with the image of an enduring winter — Narnia under the power of the White Witch, who makes it «always winter and never Christmas.»

The word «allegory» here has only a literary resemblance to the allegory of the grammarians, which, Cicero tells us, «consists in saying one thing to make something else understood.»

@ME II «allegory and parable» have not been what the boys that are making a good living selling the story to the sheepies.

you make an interesting observation when you say «Biblical language... uses allegory and metaphor to draw shape to metaphysical realities».

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.

The event of the exodus is also an allegory of the spiritual journey which we too are making under the guidance of theHoly Spirit.

@ThePompitousofLove That allegory makes no sense because geology is a hard science and politics is a soft science.

But it also recalls Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and the understanding that what makes us human is as much our behavior — and our thoughts — as it is our anatomy.

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

Nietzsche's philosophy filmed (man made God - HAL - in his own image) plus a retelling of the Odyssey (HAL = Cyclops, lunar monolith = Trojan Horse, etc) try Leonard Wheat's «Kubrick's 2001; A Triple Allegory» (Scarecrow Press, 2000) great in - depth study.

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.

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.

Glieberman, whom I mention above, says that «I don't know about you, but the sound of the word allegory makes me go to sleep a little.

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.

Showgirls has to be one of the most vitriolic allegories about Hollywood and selling out ever made, and both films are undeniably sexy to boot.

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).

Alexsey German's 15 - years - in - the - making political allegory is a visceral, sensory, jaw - dropping masterpiece.

He continued to make many more shorts after he won a Video 8 camera in a Comic Relief contest, awarded him for his film I Want to Get Into the Movies, which was an animated allegory about wheelchair access.

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.

It isn't a successful film, or even a particularly good one, but it's made with sincerity, verve, and an understanding of the horror genre's potential for kinetic filmmaking and potent allegory.

The movie doubles as a political and environmental allegory like so many horror classics but mocks student activists and makes victims out of those who attempt to halt the encroaching bulldozers.

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.

It continues making excellent work of allegory, focusing on guns and their effect on people (or apes) this time around — a particularly poignant issue this year.

Jon Favreau, who made the first two Iron Man movies, adapted a less established comic book for Cowboys & Aliens, which bombed, before rebounding with the smaller indie film Chef, which he also starred in (playing a frustrated cook in a barely veiled allegory about Favreau struggling to deal with criticism and creative interference).

He and his team weren't trying to make Suburbicon a direct allegory — as he stated over and over, his primary interest was making an entertaining film in the spirit of the original script.

You may choose to view Milo as O'Shea's modernized update of the iconic monster or a child brimming with inner evil; the film keeps its ends open, its truths veiled and only makes its sociopolitical allegories plain in its final, haunting images.

The soap operas Hudson made with the director Douglas Sirk, whose windswept allegories of alienation (even the interiors looked windswept) influenced the lumpy - rain - cloud fatalism of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, exploited Hudson's sympathetic potential, their very titles soliciting tears: Written on the Wind, The Tarnished Angels, Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows.

Yorgos Lanthimos takes the piss out of the Michael Haneke - style allegory of bourgeois guilt with this demented dark fable about a heart surgeon (a bushy - bearded Colin Farrell) cursed into making an unconscionable decision by a teenage creep (Barry Keoghan) and his own unwillingness to take responsibility for his failings.

The plot may seem simple on the surface, but it's actually subtly complex and absorbing entertainment which speaks volumes, not only about the state of the reform system, but also is an allegory of the tumultuous times regarding self - expression it was made in.

Taken as an allegory for a powerful man who doesn't entirely understand the scope of his power and its consequences, the picture's disregard for coherence and narrative linearity make some sense as well.

That the film confronts these issues head - on, without the crutch of allegory, is rare in itself, but what makes Black Panther truly unique is that this «dystopian» present is juxtaposed with a (stunningly staged) utopian vision that is also wholly steeped in the black experience — in its history, iconography, and culture.

He knew the names and properties of countless medicinal plants and animals; he knew the history (and «business») of all the families in the parroquia; and he knew myths, allegories and anecdotes that generally made people feel better.

The progress of a journey is an archetype in literature... I was reminded of Pilgrim's Progress, Gulliver's Travels, in that this journey was intended to show us different aspects of a problem, to make commentary upon it, but unlike those allegories, this one also had real characters I could identify with and care about.

Honestly, I like the allegory he made about different types of stocks to include in a portfolio.

Seems the translation team was completely oblivious to the source material, which this time around was jungian concepts like logos, eros, (or anima / animus) the collective unconcious, the shadow, transformation... And just completely butchered the underlying meaning of the game... You can see the visual allegories of the logos or eros (this is actually the player character... the avatar of humanities collective unconcious) the collective unconcious, the shadow of mankind... but none of it makes any sense with the dialog because of the butchered localization.

Maybe by making Sonic and Robotnik into the nature / freedom allegory so many fans imagined him as in Sonic 1.