Sentence examples for allusion lies from inspiring English sources

There is a vague facial similarity between Ms. Moss and Charlotte Rampling, who played a camp survivor in "The Night Porter," but the real allusion lies in their thinness.

A recondite literary allusion lies in the phrase "plurality of worlds": it comes from the title of one of the great books of the French Enlightenment, Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle's seventeenth-century "Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds," which is one of the first published works of popular science.

And there, with all its echoes and clunky allusions, lies the novel's nagging flaw.

And as Neo learns to perceive how hidden code shapes the apparently real world surrounding him, so too did fans begin to examine the coded allusions lying within the film itself.

For example, how many non-Brits could decode the irony (and literary allusion) which lies behind the expression "up to a point", which is used to mean "no, not in the slightest"?The problem is now so widely recognised that informal guides to what the French or the English really mean, when they are speaking their mother tongues, have been drawn up by other nationalities.

But then he ends his column with an allusion to lying by the President in the recent Washington upheavals.

Psychologists use the term gaslighting to describe this type of systematic lying -- an allusion to an old movie in which a man drives his wife to question her sanity by telling her odd lies and manipulating the level of gaslight in the house so that she keeps seeing lights dim for no reason.

The numbers nine and twelve referred to a checklist of principles and values, but their greater significance lay in the allusion to September 11th.

Actually, if you could ignore the cryptic subtitle, "My Lie Life" -- an allusion to the television series "My So-Called Life"?

On the original Forgotten Realms logo, which was used until 2000, small runic letters read "Herein lie the lost lands", an allusion to the connection between the two worlds.

There a Bob's Big Boy statue lies semiburied not far from an allusion to "Planet of the Apes" i.e., a peek-a-boo Statue of Liberty.