Sentence examples for conscious reference from inspiring English sources

The conscious reference to being Kshatriya, a characteristic among Rajputs, is a noticeable feature in post-Gupta politics.

This group of twelve mostly large-scale color photographs from China makes conscious reference to nineteenth-century travellers' albums but is at pains to avoid tourist clichés.

The majestic Madonna, with an austere frontal pose seemingly a conscious reference to an earlier venerated image, and the delicate, sensitive St. Francis are particularly noteworthy.

It wasn't a conscious reference to anything, but it is one of those fundamental spatial experiences, like the Campo in Siena, or the piazza in front of the Pompidou, the most gentle way to bring people from one level to another.

Only rarely does his prose slump into risible clumsiness ("Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible").As a polemicist Mr Mamet is impressive but at the cost of intellectual honesty.

The possibly conscious reference to images of the Holy Family's flight into Egypt adds to the poignancy of the painting.

The revolution in form that has become the normal state of affairs in filmmaking for the past fifty-five years is anchored in reflexivity — the overt and self-conscious reference to the making of the film within the context of the movie.

The masked killer, dressed all in black, towers theatrically over his victim, who is wearing an orange jumpsuit in a self-conscious reference to the uniform of the Guantanamo Bay detainees.

Its presence in the painting has been viewed as a visual pun on the word "nightmare" and a self-conscious reference to folklore the horse destabilises the painting's conceit and contributes to its Gothic tone.

These scenarios are skillfully integrated into the narrative through self-conscious references to comedic convention.

Occasionally, his method is overly self-conscious — references to Dante seem portentous — but his imaginative engagement with Haitian history produces hallucinatory vignettes that are memorable.