How to use "allegory" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "allegory" in popular movie and book plots

  • The book is an allegory for legitimate justice and people's desire for freedom.  - Nikola Šuhaj loupežník
  • Fiorenza, is also an allegory for the city of Florence, and is the mistress of the dying Lorenzo de' Medici, the secular ruler of the city.  - Fiorenza (play)
  • This movie is an allegory of the antagonism between USA culture and French culture as it was seen by French people in the 70s.  - The Wing or the Thigh
  • The title is an allegory to the ideological clash between three generations: Kal (Grandparent), Aaj (Parent) and Kal(Youth).  - Kal Aaj Aur Kal
  • The outcome for the characters is dark, with more emphasis on being sacrificed than self-sacrifice, and is used an allegory of wider issues.  - Tamanna (2014 film)
  • Du's poem was written as an allegory for Vietnam, which has often been possessed and abused by others.  - Saigon Eclipse
  • The other half is a "subjoined" key to the allegory and two other letters.  - A Political Romance
  • This episode is a Wild West allegory of all the other episodes of The Prisoner.  - Living in Harmony
  • gives us an early example of the allegory in the form of a journey—that is, in its best form".  - Architrenius
  • Ratliff's fantastic allegory of Flem's sale of his soul.  - The Hamlet
  • It is an allegory of a Christian devotional life from salvation through maturity.  - Hinds' Feet on High Places
  • The novel is in fact an allegory of Yendred/Dewdney's search for a reality deeper than that of scientific enquiry.  - The Planiverse
  • The second has often been criticized for poor writing and for its obvious allegory to the quest of finding God.  - The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim
  • A further interpretation is that the Lottery and the Company that runs it are actually an allegory of a deity or Zeus.  - The Lottery in Babylon
  • Picard recounts for Dathon the Epic of Gilgamesh, a human story that parallels the allegory of Darmok and Jalad.  - Darmok
  • Midnight's Children is a loose allegory for events in India both before and, primarily, after the independence and partition of India.  - Midnight's Children

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