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Hurston’s novel is therefore usually read as an allegory of Emancipation, the flight from Egypt as an escape from the bondage of slavery.—
Louis Menand,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025 -
Corbet’s profile in the New Yorker tried to sweep him into cinema’s Pantheon by interpreting The Brutalist as a post-election anti-Trump allegory.—
Armond White,
National Review,
3 Jan. 2025
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The old transmissibility of truth presented in holy doctrine, tradition, parables, had decayed into near silence.—
Joy Williams,
Harper's Magazine,
2 May 2024
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Elegant and spare, this is an environmental parable that doesn’t hammer away at its message.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
4 Dec. 2024
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But the set, in which Dylan played the electric guitar and embraced rock ’n’ roll publicly, was more complicated than a morality play pitting backward folk purists against forward-looking rockers.—
Grant Wong,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Dec. 2024
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Both saw foreign policy as a morality play pitting good against evil.—
Jason Fields,
Newsweek,
5 Dec. 2024
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Our Creature, Our Selves Image This fair is also a bestiary, with many of its animal objects ready to serve.—
Walker Mimms,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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In the bestiary, the animals representing the sins were related to animals that existed.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2024
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