Sentence examples for allusive points from inspiring English sources

But a first novel doesn't land blurbs from James Patterson and John Irving — as Harbach's has — if its primary reason for being is to score allusive points.

Sinclair is an endlessly oblique writer, erudite, edgy, sometimes allusive to the point of free association, and poetic in the broadest sense.

A student of American prose could hold up Adams's Grant-bashing memoir against Grant's own memoir to define the two furthest points of American recollection: one discursive, mordant, allusive, and hyperbolic — exaggeration of affect is the key to Adams's "education" — the other pointed, reduced, and understated.

The subject matter is comparatively slight, but the formal structure points toward the possibility of a more richly allusive visual poetry.

Everyone knows Buck Mulligan is "stately" and "plump," but by the time Stephen Dedalus' allusive stream of consciousness gives way to Leopold Bloom's humanist point of view in the fourth chapter, many readers have given up.

The key to Mr. Moore's "League" -- the thing that makes it more than a clever, allusive comic-book thriller -- is that the fun has a point to it: that, as one character puts it, "The British Empire has always encountered difficulty in distinguishing between its heroes and its monsters".

The point is not that Ms. Kim and Mr. Bahrani are being cleverly allusive or doggedly imitative.

Roth's allusive abstraction may sound like a case of having your cheese and eating it, but then that is rather the point.

Nevertheless, they are richly allusive.

The visuals are tellingly allusive.

Things can get frighteningly allusive.