Sentence examples similar to definite allusion from inspiring English sources
Not definitive, just definite.
An uncanny muscularity underlies this technical passage, with its knotted allusion to the "very definite" person who must transform himself if he wishes to be worthy of a dead lady.
In his last two chapters Rogers reviews my attempts to show from possible allusions that Theophilus had some definite ideas about Jesus, and concludes [End Page 309] that the connections are too vague to be useful.
He was described in diplomatic reports as shrewd and affable, deliberately slow of speech yet loquacious, expressing himself in an elegant Italian or Latin with learned allusions, and scrupulously refraining from tying himself down to a definite "yes" or "no" until the final settlement of an issue but then able to act with swift, uncompromising dispatch.
Allusion or empty threat?
The military allusion is telling.
Overview | What is an allusion?
The allusion was odd, perhaps.
The allusion to his turnovers was unmistakable.
