Sentence examples for allusions on from inspiring English sources

Spero, who died in 2009, made large, austere drawings and collages, laced with literary allusions, on themes of female suffering and pride.

As a performer of Coward's songs, Greenwell was unrivalled, as with his winks, nods and allusions on Coward's additions to Cole Porter's Let's Do It.

Elizabeth D. Samet's essay on failed literary allusions ("Grand Allusion," Feb. 5) was insightful and entertaining, but tracking down allusions on the Internet is only part of the problem.

Instead, he recreates the original's episodic nature, full of echoes and allusions, on his own familiar ground: a group of cultured, middle-aged New Yorkers trying to make sense of their lives in the face of an overwhelmingly pessimistic prognosis, on both the personal and political scale.

He made passing allusions on ungodly rulers which caused Darnley to walk out.

And while "Call me Ish-mail" is a fantastic network name, it's not worth your reputation of humility to blast literary allusions on Instagram, but it's a moment to savor when someone asks to use your WiFi.

Samsung's 20% market share is number one overall, but flash comes in two forms, identified by allusions to on-off logic: Nor (the older entry, dominated by Intel) and Nand (the newer, used in memory sticks).

As he does in most of his more than three dozen plays, Stoppard piles allusion on top of allusion in this work.

Now I shall lob my own cultural allusion on to the cerebral pile and say: Holy bejeezus, it's all gone a bit Anchorman, hasn't it?

David Byrne & Fatboy Slim David Byrne can explain every historical allusion on "Here Lies Love" (Todo Mundo/Nonesuch), a two-CD song cycle about Imelda Marcos, the notoriously gaudy first lady of the Philippines.

There's a lot of nonfiction, or a lot of writing that carries a spirit of non-fictional inquiry — scientific data, arcane historical lore, literary and theological allusion — on nearly every page of the book, which makes it a very rich read.