Sentence examples for allusive on from inspiring English sources

Hints of Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, and Cy Twombly percolate in Dunham's canvases, yet they're in no sense wan salon pictures, richly but pointlessly allusive; on the contrary, their energetic vulgarity is unsettling.

Today, you can see the impact of 9/11, whether it is explicit or allusive on a generation of creative New Yorkers, from musicians like TV on the Radio to authors like Jonathan Safran Foer.

And a question mark at the end of the clue might indicate that the setter has combined a straight definition with a more allusive one, but I wouldn't count on it.

The blend is increasingly familiar, but Mr. Wilson puts his own delicate, allusive spin on it.

One of our readers, Anna, asks, To what extent is your novel an allusive commentary on Mann's work?

Performed without the Hal Hartley film that originally accompanied it, La Commedia, a gleefully allusive take on Dante, occupied that teasing borderland between concert hall and opera house.

These five haunting Gothic stories bear all the hallmarks of Byatt's style: they're carefully constructed, allusive meditations on art and its place in the world.

La Commedia, Andriessen's most recent stage work (a new one will be premiered at the Holland festival in June), is a typically wide-ranging and culturally allusive riff on Dante's Divine Comedy.

"Observations" begins with short addresses to animals—"To an Intramural Rat," "To a Chameleon"—and builds to complex, allusive meditations on art and the natural world, such as "A Grave" and "Marriage".

In the meantime, all credit to the very literary neo-folk band Mumford & Sons, whose allusive lyrics draw on texts from Mantel and Steinbeck back to Homer's Odyssey.

Meanwhile, Limen promises to be equally allusive, a meditation on the "threshold of life and death, darkness and light" that brings together the light-and-numbers installations of Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima with the music of Kaija Saariaho, a Fin.