Their suffering is alluded to with a most delicate indirection; to speak of it straightforwardly would reveal it as bathos.
There is another advantage to using stories, and that's something that Hewitt alluded to with his reference to the Bible.
That ruthlessness has been repeatedly alluded to, with, naturally, Darren Aronofsky's 2010 film, "Black Swan," and its lurid portrayal of the ballet world, repeatedly invoked.
The beginning of Wan Li's decline is alluded to with a portrait of Zhang Juzheng, the minister who mentored him through the early years of his rule.
Scott has helped to create the problem he was alluding to with his "Bonfire of the Vanities" collection: too much fashion, too fast.
Judy's teenage breakdown and her brother David's psychosis are not mounted as dramas but alluded to with sad, startling casualness.
Gender-neutrality is also a trend designer Craig Green alluded to with his autumn-winter 2014 show, which he describes as "romanticising" (among other things) "his signature for masculinity".
Like George Lucas's "American Graffiti," "Animal House" is set in 1962, the year before America officially lost its innocence with the Kennedy assassination (an event that "Animal House" quietly alludes to with a "New Frontier" float in the homecoming parade).
Now soy-lime-chile sauce is an area staple, and Tijuanans typically meet for Sunday lunch at Chinese restaurants, a ritual that Plascencia alludes to with a rich, punchy dish of roasted pork butt and belly, wrapped in a paper-thin masa crêpe and seasoned with tamarind hoisin.
There's a certain randomness here, candidly alluded to with the dart, but fairly good balance, too.
Here the possibility of forward redescription alluded to with time travel is salient, in that the defender of the temporal order may hold that forward redescription is always possible, and always preferable.
