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also Aesopic
as in symbolical
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Adjective
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By then, John had died, and a new Pope, Paul VI—the former Archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Battista Montini—had gone to Jerusalem, seeking symbolic expression of the new Catholic-Jewish amity.—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025 -
Changing the terminology the committee uses is a symbolic move that reflects the support among many Republicans in Congress for recognizing Israeli sovereignty there.—
Barak Ravid,
Axios,
26 Feb. 2025
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The allegorical painting is routinely interpreted as a message that death is always just around the corner.—
Ivan Amato,
Scientific American,
30 Jan. 2025
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McCrae, too, approaches Dante’s allegorical vision with an urgency derived from a struggle that collapses the personal and the social, until the metaphysical realm seems the only possible stage.—
Elisa Gonzalez,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Chu’s film feels driven, too, by a specific youthful unrest emblematic of a wider generational crisis in modern Taiwan: Politics may not surface directly in this banquet of ear- and eye-candy, but the filmmaker’s heady, dreamy vision isn’t wholly estranged from the here and now.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2025
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But behind the arthritic movements was the same fierceness emblematic of Paquita.—
Alex Zaragoza,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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These new figurative works were just as blindingly direct as before.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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Art also typically plays a key role in Erdem’s collections: this time, the eponymous designer partnered with Kaye Donachie, a Scottish painter known for her figurative works, on appliques hand-drawn onto gauzy fabrics, which made the models look like walking watercolor paintings.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The frangipani is a flower native to Brazil, Central America, and the Caribbean, so allow this fragrance’s tropical roots to lift you out of whatever remains of your winter blues and carry you into springtime.—
Marci Robin,
Allure,
27 Feb. 2025
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Summer-blooming bulbs and tropical bloomers thrive with the warmer soil and frequent rains spring brings.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Aesopian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Aesopian. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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