Sentence examples for brief allusion from inspiring English sources

There's a brief allusion to a dead young daughter.

He neglected American literature entirely, except for a brief allusion to Pearl S. Buck.

There was a brief allusion or two to the writer and her life and work.

Rather more tastelessly, Gaye makes a brief allusion to his father, at whose hands he would later die (but not in this upbeat musical, of course).

Tashlin's own brief allusion to Wilder's film (which came out the previous year) made me wish to see what he would have done with that film's script — and with its co-star, Marilyn Monroe.

Eurypylus' descendents rule the island, which is sacked by Heracles in a brief allusion to the great hero's adventures.

Schumann would insert brief allusions to works they both loved, creating magical moments in which time seemed suspended.

Last year, BBC1 screened a drama, The Outcast (adapted from a novel by Sadie Jones), which featured brief allusions to self-harm.

It seems, though, as if Banks can only imagine these people in filmic terms, in flashed images, name-checks and brief allusions that must do for character construction.

But he pays homage to Trisler in a ritual that ranges from elegiac to frisky, with brief allusions to her choreography.

There were brief allusions to his connections with the IRA, and to the terrorists' alleged involvement in both the heist and the murder (alleged, that is, by both the British and Irish governments).