Sentences with phrase «stand as an allegory»
The problem with Christianity is that you've taken fictional stories meant to stand as allegories and moral lessons... and attempted to force them into being literal and factual.
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Interpreted variously as a preachy liberal fable, an allegory of the McCarthy era and as a commentary on U.S. involvement in both Korea and WWII, it stands first and foremost as a fine, classic western movie.
The main competition is filled with movies about the ailing world of limited means and unjust distribution of wealth, and after the bizarre and derivative allegory of labor in Vahid Vakilifar's Taboor and Amir Manor's astutely titled Epilogue, which played like Michael Haneke's Amour, only capitalism as a stand - in for death, the main competition now brings us Sylvie Michel - Casey's Our Little Differences.
The aforementioned gods are of far greater relevance in the allegory as they stand in for the first phase of healing: diagnosis.
Deep with allegory and underpinned by rich combat, God of War stands triumphant as a narrative masterwork.