Why else would Augustine go to such lengths to allegorize scripture?. From Wordnik.com. [Augustine on Creation] Reference
To allegorize life with a masquerade, and represent mankind generally as masquers. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Not to allegorize farther — my fate is now, at your perusal of this, accomplished. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
No doubt it is Gelber's intention to allegorize America as a schizoid society, a sort of split-level consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [I'm Laughing But Don't Ask Me Why] Reference
Pindars allegorize a division between disciplined and vulnerable bodies, true and false patriotism, manly and unmanly sentiment. From Wordnik.com. ['Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s] Reference
Augustine's "solution" to this problem was to allegorize the living daylights out of Genesis so it would support almost any theory. From Wordnik.com. [Augustine on Creation] Reference
The inclusion and portrayal of the Nigerians smacks of direct racism, and the central premise is both too different to allegorize and too allegorized. From Wordnik.com. [Top 10 SF Films of the Decade] Reference
He quite explicitly did not try to allegorize the modern world or current events, but nonetheless he provided numerous resonances with myth and history. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
This is supposed to be a dream, and to allegorize the life of a. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
All allegorize the Sun, six months above and six months below the equator. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference
Philo could allegorize because he knew that the law would keep Jews united. From Wordnik.com. [Faith-Promoting Rumor] Reference
Her adventures allegorize the triumph of chastity over impurity: Thus in Castle Joyous. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference
Next come the many attempts, old and new, to allegorize the Olympian scene, or to explain it away. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian won't allegorize its way back into your heart until 2008. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
The physical dilemmas that affect fantasy worlds allegorize moral dilemmas real people face every day. From Wordnik.com. [Reasons To Believe -] Reference
To allegorize the scriptures in a mere moral or mystical sense, or altogether in a figurative sense, is a degree of enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation] Reference
With that turn for double meaning and abstraction which was so strong in him, her very name helped him to allegorize her into one who makes blessed. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books Second Series] Reference
It is an attempt to allegorize the ancient myths as being phases of man's creation and salvation, though Nasoræanism never rids itself of fantastic Eastern imagery. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
If the Western Fathers are fanciful, yet this is better than the extreme literalism of Theodore of Mopsuestia, who refused to allegorize even the Canticle of Canticles. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Later theological debate can try to wish this away, allegorize it, or even claim its irrelevance, but it haunts the legacy and practice of all stripes of believers nevertheless. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
He showed Socrates making delightful nonsense of the attempt to allegorize etymologies of the names of the gods (Cratylus. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
As Mr. Michaelis’ biography brilliantly shows, Schulz sometimes used Peanuts to allegorize and make sense of his secret life. From Wordnik.com. [Sparky in the Dark: It���s Schulz���s Life, Charlie Brown] Reference
But there are a few stanzas, a couplet or two here and there that are sublime, that allegorize all of humanity’s deepest fears and wildest hopes. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Night of the Soul, Part Two (Midnight). | Mind on Fire] Reference
Besides this business, the filmmakers allegorize a theory about the popular “Paul is Dead” rumor: that it signaled the band’s death by hoaxing its member’s. From Wordnik.com. [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference
Indeed people really ceased to allegorize it. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries] Reference
Charleston I might allegorize in the person of. From Wordnik.com. [American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'] Reference
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