Between the oddments and the allegories, the forks and the grand set pieces, this exhibition richly bears that out.

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Other times, the tales are unmistakable allegories from Nakagami's tumultuous domestic life.

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There are plenty of metaphors and allegories in scripture, but the plain reading of the text does not in any way indicate that Genesis is an example of this.

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He began to load conventional allegories with incongruous realism.

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