Sentences with phrase «viewed as an allegory»

Like «The Zone» in Stalker, The Shimmer has been largely viewed as an allegory for different states of being.

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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.

Pat likely doesn't believe that; however, many Christians view the Genesis account as allegory which does not «discredit» the spiritual relevance of the stories.

In his view, literature did not need to have an explicitly Christian message nor operate as a direct allegory — which was, in fact, a point of disagreement between Tolkien and Lewis.

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.

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.

- and viewed it as a perfect allegory for whatever metaphor you wanted to project on it.

-- Bob Turnbull [LIKED] Like many zombie films, The Cured is a film that can be viewed as a social allegory about fear of «the other.»

It now transpires that McKay, a Saturday Night Live graduate who is no stranger to political satire, viewed The Other Guys as a slapstick allegory for the recent financial crisis and was working on the movie when he first read Michael Lewis's nonfiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, an account of the people who predicted (and profited from) the crash of 2007 - 8.

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.

Some viewed King's dilemma in The Descendants as an allegory for modern - day environmentalistism.

Grabelsky explains: «These paintings are not intended to be viewed as fantasy or as allegory, but rather as a blend of every - day experiences with the subconscious.

i'm only a passenger — just like you (from an Egyptian tomb) As you round the corner of the entryway at Diane Rosenstein where this phrase is visible, the first works on view in Eleanor Antin's Passengers are two massive photographs from her 2004 series Roman Allegories.

Many of the works on view in By the Book employ metaphor, allusion, and allegory as structures to evoke a powerfully symbolic visual language, while others are inspired more directly by literary texts and fictional narratives.

The present work thus reveals the foundations of Scully's praxis as he combines real life structures with the poetic allegory of a subjective viewing experience.