Sentences with phrase «serve as an allegory»

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.

(Inherit the Wind was supposed to be a bit like Arthur Miller's The Crucible, which also served as an allegory to McCarthy Trials.)

Although this is an animated film and is at its core a comedy (with many dog - related jokes), the story also serves as an allegory for serious topics.

Long gone are the origins of comic books which served as allegory to modern social situations, these films are only about violence, hero's repeatedly saving the day and leave the intelligent moviegoer with little substance.

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

With practices and insights that prefigure many important discoveries in biology, chemistry and physics, alchemy likewise fascinated and continues to fascinate poets and painters, serving as an allegory for the physical manifestation of immaterial spirit.

He has gained notoriety nationwide for his large - scale portraits of family and community members, as well as large - scale paintings of family quilts which serve as allegory for themes of family and faith.

Among his monumental pieces is a 200 - kilogram tornado made from barbed wire and another of a gigantic wave, both of which serve as allegories for a void, political unrest and change.

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.

Not exact matches

By serving as a politically resonant allegory about the ways differing beliefs can divide friends and family, it also became one of Marvel's first, bonafide tragedies — a story of what happens when good people get their priorities confused.

Pagan allegory served to reconcile myths with philosophy and consequently to reduce them as myths.

Also, Casper's naïve reaction to his food's criticism doesn't serve much as a lesson in thick skin by any means, and any allegory to Favreau's own opinions on criticism of his work isn't especially effective.

The motive of crucifixion served as a symbol of pain and death, and Bacon used the allegory to make Three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion.

Kaino's short performance action results in a black, white and yellow tie - dyed pattern upon the recognizable stars and stripes and serves as a larger allegory for the growing extreme polarization of political thought in America today.