Sentence examples for allusion with from inspiring English sources
Richard Strauss often used musical allusion with great subtlety, as in his opera Der Rosenkavalier.
The band later elaborated on that allusion with a set-closing rendition of "Whole Lotta Love".
She populates her exacting free verse with deft classical allusion, with food, with nature, with fellow human beings and with abject majesty.
The ludic and trickster elements in Kabir are emphasized in this collection, blending traditional Indian scriptural allusion with contemporary slang and colloquialisms: "bedroom eyes," "sucker," "dreadlocked rasta," "smelling of aftershave," "Faber poets".
Is the descending plane a 9/11 allusion, with the tractor and Mickey and the sleepy figures, like Adam and Eve, oblivious and innocent: the American heartland and American commercial culture with a somnolent populace on the verge of catastrophe?
The piece is rich in allusion, with tableaux echoing the Descents from the Cross of Caravaggio and Rubens, and swaying friezes of linked figures recalling Sargent's paintings of mustard-gas victims.
I read John McPhee's piece on alienating allusions with interest ("Frame of Reference," March 9th).
Mr. Albee is playing his customary mind games, mixing literary allusions with absurdity, being provoking as well as provocative.
They drop names from Nietzsche to Wittgenstein (tossing in Russ Meyer for good measure), but back their allusions with ideas.
(She doesn't shy away from liturgical allusions, with song titles like "The Host of Seraphim" and lyrics like "My precious love/Can only come from above").
Mr. Kurstin accesses those allusions with a wink, mixing in shimmering electronics, atmospheric noise and layer upon layer of Ms. George's breathy vocals.
