Sentence examples for allusions to them from inspiring English sources

Literary allusions to them are scarce, but 96 of the acta, or minutes, of their proceedings, inscribed on stone, have been discovered in the grove of the Dea Dia near Rome.

His allusions to them make it hard not to see this tune as a musical representation of the island nation's determination, a sung version of the patois saying "We likkle but talawah" – don't underestimate; Jamaica is determined and refuses to ever give up.

"Sinestro Corps War" introduced the Sinestro Corps in full after allusions to them throughout the post-One Year Later Green Lantern title.

"Up to the end of the 19th century, the bulk of people who read poems had mostly the same education, the same basic things in their head – and so you could make allusion to them.

Ross makes no further comment on the exclusion of more than a million young black women from the pageant, although her allusion to them was provocative for its time.

William Langland's famous 14th-century poem The Visions of Piers Plowman (1362) was inspired by the Malvern Hills and the earliest poetic allusion to them occurs in the poem And on a Maye mornynge on Malverne hylles.

Folk poetry, in the different languages spoken by Muslims, provides a popular representation of traditional material, be it in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, the Indian and Pakistani languages (Urdu/Hindi, Bengali, Sindhi, Punjabi, Balochi, etc)., or the Afro-Asiatic languages; in all of them allusions to myth and legend are found down to the level of riddles and lullabies.

It's a weakness of mine to forget what it is I've just been talking about so that when people make witty allusions to it I stare at them open-mouthed, not knowing what they're talking about.

When asked about their main motivation for being a counsellor, the most common response given was the ability to "help people" and serve their community, as well as allusions to how HIV/AIDS had touched them personally.

Would the screenwriter have made such subtle allusions to his criminality without ever paying them off in one of the sequels?

Mostly, though, the gauzy and indistinct "Signs and Wonders" is made up of oblique allusions to situations rather than actual renderings of them.