Sentence examples for allusive name from inspiring English sources

And Fanny, the deus-ex-machina and friend who brought the couples together in the first place, keeps getting things wrong (her scatologically allusive name is, after all, Fanny Assingham).

Their contributions differ in this regard: four chapters are ascribed to Mr. Green, four to Mr. Swan, and only one, the last, to "both equally". The Green style is bustling and busily allusive; names drop like rain, often blurring the outlines of the subject.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's four-measure phrase "Così fan tutte" ("Thus do they all"), in his opera of the same name, is allusive, but it appears as a recurrent motto rather than as a true leitmotif.

Tom Grasty: "In the name game, being allusive can be a powerful attribute.

In the "name game," being allusive can be a powerful attribute.

Again, most of these references — whether allusive or satirical — are signaled by characters' names.

In the end, the House of Names, at once allusive and blank, seems all too apt a symbol for the novel that shares its mysterious name.

Mark Linkous, a singer and songwriter whose music, released under the name Sparklehorse, was renowned in indie-rock and alt-country circles for its haunted, allusive themes and fragile beauty, committed suicide on Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn.

Nevertheless, they are richly allusive.

The visuals are tellingly allusive.

Things can get frighteningly allusive.