Sentence examples for clever allusions from inspiring English sources

On his previous work he has sometimes come across as one of those men in his song, out to dazzle with clever allusions and involuted forms.

Mr. Scott's "Venus Rising" theme made clever allusions to sex on a half shell, but also to what was supposed to be fashion's final frontier.

What was interesting was that, although the delivery was far from standard (most Reith lectures are very "read", with dry literary jokes and clever allusions; Perry was far more freestyle), his conclusion was surprisingly conservative.

Whether evoking the hunger of would-be kingpins ("We need it now, we need a town/We need a place to pitch — we need a mound") or bragging about his product ("Hero'n got less steps than Britney/That means it ain't stepped on, dig me?"), he packs his wordy stanzas full of unexpected syllables, clever allusions and unpredictable rhymes schemes.

The New York Times writer Kelefa Sanneh commended Jay-Z for his lyricism, stating "he packs his wordy stanzas full of unexpected syllables, clever allusions and unpredictable rhymes schemes.

Warhol is an ingeniously clever allusion for Simons to alight upon.

The star pattern on the carpet is a clever allusion to the taped marks that dancers use as reference points.

Or was the smile just a clever allusion to the fact that the lady's last name, Giocondo, means "cheerful"?

He went on to the project of "raising" a robot "child" named Cog a clever allusion to cognition and gears that would learn from its interactions with humans.

That's a clever allusion to a beloved Broadway classic, but "Striking 12" is by no means a traditional book musical.

His own rubric is "The 5th Wave," which he thought of as a clever allusion to the futurist Alvin Toffler, until he realized that Toffler had identified only three previous waves (agrarian, industrial, informational).