Sentence examples for drop allusions from inspiring English sources

Spinning their deadpan tales of sexual disaster, Witkowski's queens drop allusions to Rimbaud, Almodóvar, Villon, Gombrowicz and Pasolini as often as they drop their cheap and often-washed underwear.

It gave the critics an opportunity to drop arcane allusions instead of having to pretend to sound like teen-agers, while the academics could loosen up a little.

The tight web of allusions dropped away, and what was left was mostly straightforward, sad, and essentially simple.

The tight web of allusions dropped away, and what was left was mostly straightforward, sad, and essentially simple..

It will help the first sort to know snatches of prison songs, coded name-dropping or historical allusions scattered in the music.

Similarly, it was smart enough to wear its intelligence lightly: however many intriguing sonic ideas it bore, however meticulous it all sounded, however many references to Seurat or Hagia Sophia the lyrics dropped, however many allusions to the short stories of Lorrie Moore the titles carried, St Vincent never sounded like a dry scientific experiment or a smartarse intellectual exercise.

Some names and cultural allusions are dropped too briskly for readers under the age of 50 to grasp them.

"Zeroville," with its dizzying, in-the-know, name-and-place dropping (and its incessant allusions to famous movies and their stars, both cryptic and explicit) is a kind of novelistic refutation of Biskind's book — without an index.

They worked with collegial efficiency, pairing modern harmony with blues inflection and dropping the odd allusion to the gospel church.

He eventually dropped the Holocaust allusion and some Jewish leaders came to see him as an opponent of anti-Semitism.

His prose hops with dropped names, compulsive puns, learned allusions, winks at the reader, and repeated bows to popular culture.