The play's idiosyncratic imagery, which includes copious references to birds and wind and fish, often defies clear interpretation.
Filled with philosophical ruminations and copious references to literature, art, film and music, the book is in many ways as much of a surprise hit as its publisher.
In their Matrix triology, the filmmakers Andy and Larry Wachowski lobbed in copious references to Baudrillard to give their work a little philosophical heft.
Mashrou' Leila is known for its erudite, often enigmatic, lyrics, and "Ibn El Leil" is the band's most allusive effort yet, with copious references to Greek mythology, ancient poetry, and pagan ritual.
The copious references to iPod Touches and plasma TVs don't so much ground Theo's narrative in a recognisable contemporary setting as make the whole structure seem oddly artificial; there is a sense almost of an over-researched historical novel, in which period details have been crowbarred in more or less at random.
The women as a whole come strongly out of this production; Sandra Duncan's Duchess of York treats her insanely ambitious son with aristocratic distaste as if she can't quite believe he sprang from her womb, and Paola Dionisotti's Queen Margaret haunts the action like a vengeful bag lady (making good sense of the copious references to past events in the text).
At New Wimbledon Theatre, Dallas star Gray gives an utterly charming, if at times tentative performance as the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, well served by a script by Eric Potts (the most prolific of today's panto writers) that makes copious references to Texas, oil and Southfork – and she channels Sue Ellen, swigging from a hip flask on a chain (bejewelled, of course) around her neck.
(For a recent defence of causalism about motivating reasons with copious references to relevant literature see Mele 2003, esp. chapter 2).
Simpson's creator Matt Groening is also the creator of Futurama which also has copious references to various Kubrick films.
They killed the former US Army Ranger Peter Kassig in Dabiq, the site of a key end times battle in some apocalypse tales, while making copious references to the Day of Judgement and our nation's role in their vision.
Readers looking for sexy material will be disappointed by his 172-page volume, unless they get turned on by constitutional law and copious references to Jefferson, Madison and the 9th Amendment.
