Sentence examples for allusion at from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "allusion at" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly; "allusion" is usually followed by "to" rather than "at."
Example: "The author makes an allusion to classical mythology in her novel."
Alternatives: "reference to" or "hint at".

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But even if it is an allusion, at some level, to the original Far Side panel, it is also markedly different.

To many British eyes, both president and country are too bombastic, myopically self-assured, lacking a properly tragic view of life and sometimes emotionally incontinent: Mr Bush's allusion at Camp David to the death of Mr Brown's baby daughter a tragedy, the president said, which had "strengthened [Mr Brown's] soul"—struck some listeners as unduly intrusive.

There are politics here – a dark photograph of an upturned Renault car references with an almost contradictory coolness the establishment-shaking student riots in Paris in 1968 – but to fully appreciate the layers of meaning and allusion at play here, one must be au fait with the postmodern art theory from which they emerge.

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Fluent in five modern languages, he had a vast repertory of literary allusions at his fingertips.

His prose hops with dropped names, compulsive puns, learned allusions, winks at the reader, and repeated bows to popular culture.

The Alice in Wonderland allusions hinted at when Danny swallowed what turned out to be an encryption device became explicit once Clarke Peters' man of mystery had offered Danny a blue pill inside a red sweet.

There is no allusion to allies at all.

One deep character question remains: the nature of David Cameron, slippery as silk, smooth as his airbrushed cheeks, adept at allusion yet elusive on everything.

The director Tjebbo Penning strains at allusion and staggered narrative, but the film is well acted and a visual marvel; it feels lived in.

This has something of Woody Allen movies like Sweet and Lowdown and Broadway Danny Rose; there's a playful allusion to Breakfast at Tiffany's and even a weird casting echo of Walter Salles's On the Road — and this movie is incidentally everything that dull film wasn't.

Such is the thrust of Aristotle's reconstruction of Parmenides' reasoning at Physics 1.3.186a34-b4 and, likewise, of his summary allusion to this passage at Metaphysics 1.5.986b28 31.

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