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allusively

adverb

In an allusive manner; in a manner characterized by allusion.

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Some of Mao's allusively poetic dialogue, in particular, is beyond parody: "At the approach of the rain and the wind the swallows are busy".

Mr Kristof is correct to identify work as a linchpin not only of material but also emotional well-being, and he's right to recognise, if only allusively, that the disability insurance system can hurt people, such as Mr Green, by making it harder for them to feel the impetus to find work.

Ink was used more sparingly and allusively than, for example, by the Kanō painters.

Among the most notable novels of 2014 was former NBA winner Denis Johnson's The Laughing Monsters, a darkly comic book about global exploitation and the men who get rich off of what one character allusively describes as "things falling apart".

Its first part provides three methods of assigning the powers of 10 up to 104,096 to traditionally established terms for "large numbers" and allusively mentions a method of indefinite generation of even larger numbers, which has led to comparisons with Archimedes' The Sand-Reckoner (3rd century bc).

Wore it irreverently, allusively, because he and his people were attached to one of the little allegorical towns out there in Pennsylvania German land.

Rather, what he found in Jackson Heights is, as the film meticulously, intellectually, allusively, yet ardently shows, a crucial aspect of American experience, a working-out on film of the American democratic ideal.

This is central to the Sachet family story, it seems; although Steavenson deals with it allusively, she leaves us in no doubt that one of the Sachet daughters was thus brutalized — a terrible fact that hung like a shadow on the hearth of their family home.

In an earlier post, I suggested as much, somewhat allusively; it's worthwhile to be more explicit about it, because the dichotomy is at the heart of the way things are done in Hollywood.

I'm writing allusively to avoid spoilers, but what's already clear from the trailer is that, in Volume II, Joe gets involved in a physically masochistic relationship.

His book is thus acutely displaced: it had to have been written with an audience outside of Iran in mind, but in a language that this audience would mostly not understand; it depends on translation for its being, yet its being is thoroughly Iranian, lovingly and allusively so, dense with local reference.

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