(1) He himself denied any allegorical significance in his work.(2) The elements are represented by four allegorical pictures and in the centre of the pavement the mask of Medusa is portrayed.(3) It is also fitting that she chose such an allegorical , almost mystical way to present such a brutal act.(4) The film is rich in allegorical theme and symbolic imagery, transforming the most banal of materials into miraculous epiphanies.(5) His narratives, in which he translates current events, are too allegorical to be history, yet too mutable to be myth.(6) A jaunty cow recounts an allegorical tale of bad blood in the herd.(7) I just can't join the bandwagon of rabble rousers determined to endow basic biological functions with allegorical status.(8) They never acquire the independent meaning of a neat allegorical subtext.(9) The narrative voice, too, is made vivid: never before in English has the poem sounded less allegorical and more humane.(10) Such a view of the world was inclined toward mystical and allegorical meaning of reality and truth.(11) Nowhere do we see a case for Rowling being as allegorical as C.S. Lewis or as skilled with metaphor as Roald Dahl.(12) Strikingly, most children read Narnia as a simple fantasy story and do not recognise the Christian allegorical nature of the plot.(13) In a society dominated by allegorical and historical painting, his scenes of contemporary life were regarded as a novelty.(14) In fantasy writing the allegorical quality is simply more obvious.(15) Melville specifically denies at the beginning of his story that it is allegorical - which it patently is.(16) His most characteristic works were figures or groups of a historical, literary, allegorical , or symbolic nature.
