Sentence examples for allusion about from inspiring English sources

Bespectacled players – Zaheer's gold rims were among the most famous of all cricket's glasses – always exude a vulnerability, as the Sun's Clive Taylor noted in his evocative allusion about David Steele being "the bank clerk who went to war".

Van Egmond blows her lips at the prospect of facing the Japanese, under no allusions about the quality of her opponents.

His tired, weary baritone chews over biblical allusions about lost faith and fleeting redemption, mixing religious lifelines with sexual healing and relationship battle-scars.

It led to Cilla Black recording a song called Abyssinian Secret in 1968, full of nudge-nudge, wink-wink allusions about what she'd smuggled back from the far east.

But to the extent that ministers have addressed it, it's been simply to make vague allusions about the importance of personal responsibility and familial duty, without being upfront about the tradeoffs involved, and what they might mean for older people without family in their lives who can pick up the pieces.

He did not directly address his intentions here Saturday, but he made several allusions about the country needing new leadership and said at one point in his 35-minute speech, "We're going to cut some new ground over the next year or so".

The episode, which the text itself indicates is just one in a series of Nichifor's conquests among his female clients, highlights the seducer's verbose monologue, which covers accounts of his unhappy marriage, allusions about the naturalness of physical love, and intimidating suggestions that wolves may be tempted to attack the wagon (prompting the young woman to seek refuge in his arms).

She wrote 26 novels, in shimmering prose full of mystical allusions, mostly about upper-middle-class intellectuals like herself caught in a net of romantic affairs, and five books on philosophy.

Whitehead's own first novel comes up for a parodic allusion: "It's about two warring groups of chiropodists.

And the worst thing would be having to explain everything, every reference, every allusion, every joke about your own past or your own era.

Large blue letters projected over the entrance to the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Monday night read "Pay Trump Bribes Here," an allusion to questions about President Trump's business affairs with foreign governments.