Sentence examples similar to a light allusion. from inspiring English sources

Some works make feather-light allusions to the artist's roots.

A lighter.

Another showed Wells and Squires held aloft by a broomstick, an obvious allusion to witchcraft.

The word quisling has since become a synonym for traitor, an allusion to the very poor light in which Quisling's actions were seen both at the time and after his death.

Adams often begins a new work with an allusion to an existing one, and his nod toward Sibelius's moody, enigmatic late style immediately puts the fairy tale in a different light.

A misplaced gesture, a too specific allusion, and it will be a media scramble".

A serious literary allusion, or a snickering joke?

There are at least four possible explanations for Featherbed Lane, including "a sly allusion to the ladies of easy virtue" who lived in an 1840's red light district.

The reference to Gould is both an apt allusion and a telling contrast.

I wonder whether this choice was merely aesthetic or instead was an intentional allusion to a dreaded disease.

That bible of meaning was an allusion, a reference frame that could not be circumvented; it nonetheless needed without fail to be gone through again and rediscussed from a less Italian viewpoint and in the light of attention more in harmony with the particular qualities of our specific situation.