Sentence examples for The same allusion from inspiring English sources

I'm sure if the same allusion where that women were only able to potentially work 72percentt of the time because they were prone to hysterics, they'd get a prescription for Mother's Little Helper or a trip to a sanitarium for what is now known as two-day PMS.

So why do they give Rush Limbaugh a pass for making those very same "allusions to anal penetration"?

When asked to articulate a major difference between herself and Mr. Seabrook, Ms. Saunders responded, "Well, for one thing, I've been married for 31 years, to the same person," an allusion to some recent troubles of Mr. Seabrook, who admitted last year having filed joint tax returns after his divorce became final.

No relation to Fritz Lang's glistening 1944 film noir of the same title – though the allusion doesn't hurt – this yet-to-be-published mystery by the pseudonymous AJ Finn has prompted twin bidding wars in the book and film worlds.

As one ancient Greek text put it, "In pregnancy, the onset of drowsy headaches with heaviness is bad; such cases are perhaps liable to some sort of fits at the same time" — apparently an allusion to the seizures that occur when preeclampsia becomes eclampsia.

A possible allusion to the same eclipse is found in the Bible: " 'And on that day,' says the Lord God, 'I will make the Sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight' " (Amos 8 9).

The concluding words of her "Caligula" program — "When that group of disgruntled army officers decided to rid Rome of the monster, sure, they left him in bits on the palace floor, but all they got was more of the same" — were an oblique but unmistakable allusion to contemporary global affairs.

Wimsatt and Beardsley's warning that identifying an allusion does not amount to the same thing as understanding its significance has renewed urgency in the current age of allusion-­automation, for if the Web makes it that much easier for the allusion-hunter to bag his quarry, it does not necessarily tell him how to dress it.

Next, ask students to discuss this idea from today's essay: Wimsatt and Beardsley's warning that identifying an allusion does not amount to the same thing as understanding its significance has renewed urgency in the current age of allusion-­automation, for if the Web makes it that much easier for the allusion-hunter to bag his quarry, it does not necessarily tell him how to dress it.

Apple's 1984 Macintosh ad is a mesmerizing, direct allusion (and response) to the same fears expressed towards technology in George Orwell's 1984: cultural concerns about the personal impact of technology on identity and self-control.

The same is true of the myraid literary allusions in the book.