Sentence examples for allusion the from inspiring English sources

The word is rich with allusion: the Classical world, the British public-school system, the linguistic architecture of class difference.

And both, extremely well-read, made classical myth and allusion the subject of much of their work.

The passing allusion, the spry rearrangement, the trust placed in his sidemen: all par for the course.

Inasmuch as honnêteté stands for moderation and achieved simplicity and préciosité for the cult of artifice and allusion, the two phenomena may seem to be opposites.

Whatever Mr. Twohy's intentions and no matter how aspirational the allusion, the image works because it telegraphs one simple idea: Riddick is reborn, y'all.

It plays things with surprising subtlety – never making the pop culture allusion the focus of the sketch, but simply a means to an end.

One of them is the allusion to the controversial PISA reports and the other one is the reference to the transforming impact of information technology.

Connaughton disliked the allusion to the Kennedys, which seemed canned.

The allusion to The Merchant is deliberately placed.

I suspect that the allusion to the joys of Strat-O-Matic is entirely coincidental.

One cannot ignore the allusion to the women in his life.