Sentence examples for allusive term from inspiring English sources

Charon's obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial.

It is small wonder that a term as broadly allusive as humanism should be subject to a wide variety of applications.

But none of this enmity is reflected in the poetic and densely allusive text of "Unearthing".

How to follow a labyrinthine, philosophically allusive text like Donne's without veering toward the precious?

Lou managed to film the protests and the crackdown with minimal, allusive methods which leave much to the imagination; it's their devastating long-term effects that he films in painfully full detail.

There's a certain degree of truth in this, but I'd argue the sort of images literature trades in are more allusive than visual ones - the figuration and the thing figured bleeding into one another, except in what I term "constructed metaphors", the kinds preceded by "as if", "like" and other signposts.

Nevertheless, they are richly allusive.

The visuals are tellingly allusive.

Things can get frighteningly allusive.

"Allusive Form: Painting as Idea".

The dialogue, too, is aphoristic and allusive.