Sentence examples for direct allusion from inspiring English sources

That fairly direct allusion has been remarkably little noted, at least in print.

The water would also have been a direct allusion to Dr. King's "Dream" speech and his frequent invocation of the prophet Amos ("let justice run down like waters... ......)... ......

The first name is a direct allusion to the fact that George Llewellyn Davies now had another brother, Peter, born in 1897.

Shakespeare's direct allusion in "Henry V" to the Earl of Essex drew attention to the searching political reflections throughout his plays that were safer left in the shadows.

In his most direct allusion yet to the second intifada of the early 2000s, Netanyahu said the "current wave of terrorism is same that we saw 14 years ago".

But never is this more obvious than in season three, which begins with the destruction of the Baltimore towers as a direct allusion to the collapse of the twin towers in New York.

The direct allusions are few but telling.

The fourth is Hitchcock's Psycho to which there are several direct allusions.

True, the mosaics of loops, mazes, convoluted whorls and calligraphic writhings that characterize some paintings don't always make direct allusions.

There are lines which are almost, if not quite, taken from old movies and direct allusions whipped from everything from The Searchers to The Triumph of the Will.

Miller did all kinds of fashion work for British Vogue, including regular columns like "Bargain of the Month," and there are many with direct allusions to World War II — a 1942 photo of a model in tweeds peering into sacks marked "tins" and "rags" for salvage drives.