Sentence examples for clear allusions from inspiring English sources
There's a bit of Gertrude from "Hamlet," along with fairly clear allusions to the story of Romeo and Juliet.
Despite its clear allusions to Shakur, the new production is a "non-biographical story about friendship, family, revenge, change and hope," according to the press notes.
This Henry V is played on an often largely bare thrust stage so that Oliver Ford Davies's fine, consciously schoolmasterly Chorus doesn't sound as if he's talking through his hat with those clear allusions to the Globe.
There are clear allusions to the onset of the slave trade, but the tale's origins lie, Okri says, in the myth of an ancestor who is captured or disappears, which he likens to the Pied Piper of European lore.
Also... Michael Haneke's distressing Funny Games (released in Europe in 1997 and again, in a diluted shot-by-shot US remake by the same director, in 2008) and Barbet Schroeder's Murder By Numbers (2002) carry clear allusions to Leopold and Loeb.
In the roundness of the opening coats and jackets, with a tracing of fur on the wool, in the gentle sweep of the longer coats, in the cap sleeves and the loose-back tops, there were clear allusions to Balenciaga's 1950s modernity, as well as '60s evening styles — like the pink gazar gown with a feathered underskirt now on display at a new haute couture exhibit at Hôtel de Ville.
It was a clear allusion to a prejudice that dared not speak its name.
It boasts as much, even warning that France and "French-speakers" – a clear allusion to Algeria's ruling military-bourgeois elite – must expect to be attacked.
"You want to hang him from an oak tree?" Black leaders pounced on Senator Bruno's comment, saying it was a clear allusion to lynching.
Still, the ballet's premiere over the weekend at the Academy of Music here opened with an unexpected scene: a clear allusion to a Degas ballet painting.
Unable to realise his ambition, the Emperor agrees to die if Death resumes his work, which he does as the quartet reassembles, stripped to their underwear in a clear allusion to Auschwitz.
