Sentence examples for double allusion from inspiring English sources

The presentation was quite effective: it was like a big nest, and there was a double allusion to fragility, that of eggs and that of artifacts.

The most poetic, with a double allusion, comes from John F. Andrews, president of the Shakespeare Guild, who suggests the Great Fall, based on Humpty Dumpty, who had one from his seat on a wall, as in Wall Street: "The moral implicit in the protagonist's fate (with its suggestions of both cluelessness and hubris) is peculiarly apt".

Reading and listening to Doniger, one expects that the bemused audience is privy to all of her clever inside-jokes, double-entendres, allusions to popular culture, Freud, self-deprecating humor, and references to Great Books, Great Thinkers, and Great Ideas.

(Whatever his successes and failures, Schwarzenegger has at least nourished California politics with endless opportunities for movie allusions, double entendres and overall goofiness — some of it occasionally clever).

The double ribbon is an allusion by Longacre to the denomination of the piece he was designing.

Double entendres and suggestive allusions, chilling in their refined detachment, segue into bedroom brawls.

In many ways, Smithers represents the stereotype of a closeted gay man, and numerous overt allusions and double entendres concerning his homosexuality are made, though some of the show's producers instead interpret him as a "Burns-sexual".

And a double whammy of artless literary allusion, in response to some early idiocy of Trump's: "The episode was silly, but also an early warning: we were in a 'brave new world.'" Line break.

"Twenty" derived from the Roman numeral XX, which itself was an allusion to the "Double-Cross System," run by the Committee, of turning enemy agents in place and fabricating intelligence deceptions to employ against the Axis powers.

His best-known poem, Marienleich ("Mary's Song"), is an impressive display of virtuosity in which the Virgin is praised in complex language that combines traditional religious imagery, double meanings, and esoteric philosophical allusions.

"Mad Men" loves to double up on themes and allusions: In recent years especially, the show has been fascinated by duality and people who are on parallel tracks.