Sentence examples for deliberate reference from inspiring English sources

One of the aliens' weapons seems a deliberate reference to the anthrax scare.

The UN peacekeepers' noisy display is a deliberate reference to the Vietnam war, as depicted in the film "Apocalypse Now".

With deliberate reference to the civil rights era, Democrats defied the rulebook on Wednesday, speech after impassioned speech demanding a vote on gun safety measures.

I thought too about how Zion crops up occasionally in rock'n'roll, in reggae hits and Lauryn Hill songs, as a specific and deliberate reference.

For example the word "cruise" means something quite specific in gay culture, rather like the designer's "FUN NOW" jumper from his debut collection, which made a deliberate reference to the language of Grindr.

Danny Cohen, the BBC's director of television, said there was no evidence to support the allegation that the number plate on Clarkson's Porsche – H982 FKL – was a deliberate reference to the Falklands war.

And the show was punctuated by deliberate references to movies that had played well with ticket-buying audiences last year but were often not in the running for awards, the nominations for which went overwhelmingly to relatively little-seen movies.

Feminist psychoanalytic film theorist Laura Mulvey argues that Blue Velvet establishes a metaphorical Oedipal family—"the child", Jeffrey Beaumont, and his "parents", Frank Booth and Dorothy Vallens through deliberate references to film noir and its underlying Oedipal theme.

Crosby, who reportedly cried at the recording, later described Young's deliberate, withering reference of the president of the world's most powerful nation by name as the "the bravest thing I ever heard".

MGMT were born to synthesize (deliberate Todd Rundgren reference) psychedelia, electronica, progressive rock, pop and MOR, and that's what they achieve, quite successfully as we say, on their 2008 debut album, Oracular Spectacular, a title just crying out for plaudits or brickbats.

The song is 3 13 long — a deliberate numerological reference to frame 313 of the Zapruder film, the frame with Kennedy's fatal head shot and the point at which JFK became an American media martyr "because the production value of his murder was so grand; the cinematography was so well done".