Sentence examples for allusion which from inspiring English sources

If that doesn't seem to work in the context, consider forgoing the allusion, which is probably overused anyway.

The allusion, which is less obtuse than it might have sounded when Capello put it, is that there can be many routes to success, each dependent on the players at your disposal, and that overhaul is not always a requirement.

In his "Cantos", Pound seldom bothered to mention whose fusty trunk he was happily ransacking.Where, then, does honest allusion, which authors want readers to catch, stop and sly thievery begin?

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.

Some critics found the style of Too Far Afield rambling and too full of historical allusions, which impede the flow.

Like the classics of its genre, "Tad Hamilton" runs on hints and allusions, which can elude detection the first time around.

In turn, that music was followed by John Wesley Harding, the pared-down Dylan album full of biblical allusions which led on to Nashville Skyline and the music Dylan recorded with Kooper and Bromberg.

As HuffPost's Emma Gray pointed out, Trump's statement removed all allusions, which had been made in his predecessor's statement, to the culture of victim-blaming that harms women who speak out.

In addition to the literary allusions which are explicitly acknowledged in the text, Bechdel incorporates visual allusions to television programs and other items of pop culture into her artwork, often as images on a television in the background of a panel.

His works are dense forests of allusion through which you hack, sentence by tangled sentence.

Mr. Scharf taps into a high modernist tradition of mythic allusion, to which he adds his own element of the phantasmagoric.