Sentences with phrase «way as allegories»

They are not written for children, and do not function in any way as allegories.

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The myth declared historical — critical method to be the only true way to read the New Testament, and dismissed all other modes of reading (particularly the despised errors of allegory) as «precritical.»

It is also possible to recognize other ways of reading the New Testament: not only midrash, but also typology and allegory are modes of reading which, given their assumptions and rules of discourse, are every bit as disciplined and «true» as that offered by the literalist renderings of the historical - critical method.

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.

So the late Paul de Man saw the metaphor as a prime cause of delusion and preferred allegory to metaphor as the safer and more rational way to correct the false heuristics of the latter.

Pilgrim's Progress, cited by Braithwaite, was an influential guide to behaviour only because it was read as an allegory faithfully representing the way of life recommended by the Bible and supported by the claims therein about God and the world.

Lots allegory, denies rapture explaining it away as another way to describe the return Christ.

I think that this is the way to look at the film: as an allegory for whatever is called New European Populism right now.

When Wark proclaims that he's «always had trouble drawing nigger faces,» and so paints white men's faces on the bodies of black slaves, the poignancy of that movement, independent of its inherent poignancy, identifies Junebug as something like an allegory for the ways that we deny the things we can't escape.

In case you don't figure out that this story is meant as timely political allegory, there are bill - boarded hints along the way, the most obvious including Kemp holding forth on Nixon's legacy and the despoliation of Paradise.

It's also amusing in the way it works as an allegory for Hollywood — another cutthroat industry.

The crouch - and - cover template adds a realistic military feel to Rogue Trooper's otherwise fanciful wartime allegory, and as you pick your way carefully across large open battlefields or through tangled ruins, you really feel like a trooper rather than a superhero.

The curator refers to the image as the «portrait in absentia of a charismatic person [and] an allegory of an extraordinary way of life.»

He keeps inventing new ways to challenge our beliefs in ostensible truths and convincing lies, creating surreal stories that can be read as allegories for political events and historic accounts.

I was running through «A» words as I was on my way to a pedicure one day and the word «Allegory» popped into my head.