Sentence examples for earlier allusion from inspiring English sources

Which means, regarding the earlier allusion to his mortal coil, that he doesn't plan to do any shuffling any time soon.

Mitchell is obsessed with eternal recurrence, and reprises earlier allusions and motifs in each book.

Probably the earliest allusion to Mary in Christian literature is the phrase "born of woman" in Galatians 4 4, which was written before any of the Gospels.

Two years later, with ample hindsight, it became apparent it was an early allusion to the narrative of the next game from Naughty Dog, the critically celebrated The Last of Us. 5 Gone Home – Mitten's Journal Cult indie game Gone Home was saturated with mysteries and secrets.

One of the earliest allusions to martial music appeared in a dance treatise by Thoinot Arbeau (1588).

William Langland's famous 14th-century poem The Visions of Piers Plowman (1362) was inspired by the Malvern Hills and the earliest poetic allusion to them occurs in the poem And on a Maye mornynge on Malverne hylles.

According to Rev. W. W. Skeat in his notes to the fourteenth-century The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman, In the present passage we have the earliest known allusion to the singular custom known as that of "the Dunmow flitch of Bacon".

This is one of the earliest known allusions to the solar corona.

Among the details Mr. Ashcroft provided that set this announcement apart from earlier ones were an allusion to Qaeda cells that he said were established in several South Asian countries and to their intentions to carry out "car bomb and other attacks on U.S. facilities".

The overlapping, scratchy recordings on the score (skillfully assembled by Ms. Rainer and Quentin Chiappetta); the snatches of songs the dancers warble; the allusions to earlier Rainer works — these all suggest the apparent randomness of memory.

It's fair to say Martin Scorsese is king of the film nerds; every movie he has ever made is packed with references and allusions to earlier masterworks, everything from The Red Shoes to King of Kings.