Sentence examples for first allusion from inspiring English sources

The argument from expediency is rejected by Raphael, but his dismissal of all compromise leads him to make the first allusion to the Utopians and their holding of property in common, a practice he associates with Plato.

This was the first allusion to confidential emails the committee was not disclosing to the public.

If Wagner gave us the first allusions to high tech, the furniture designs of Koloman Moser prefigure those of Michael Graves, while the objects of Josef Hoffmann (which, happily, are presented in great quantity here) clearly have inspired Richard Meier.

(This is Bayard's second allusion to Darwin, the ultimate questioner of origins).

On the papal flight last week-end Benedict made a second allusion to the abuse scandal, and its devastating effect on the moral authority of the church and its pastors, describing the church as the body of Jesus Christ "wounded by our sins".

The second allusion is made when the second victim orders "a piece of cherry pie" at a diner, alluding to the Twin Peaks lead character Dale Cooper's own fondness for this item.

It was in this Freedom Square in Sophiatown that Nelson Mandela made his first public allusion to violence and armed resistance as a legitimate tool for change.

The first authentic allusions to the feast (apart from the Gelasian and Gregorian sacramentaries, in both of which it is mentioned) are in acts of the Council of Toledo (656) and of the Trullan Council (692).

Its building, by James Ingo Freed, was acclaimed from the first; its allusions to 1940s Brutalist architecture and evocations of an industrial enterprise going about its horrific work do not descend into cliché.

The second religious allusion occurs during a conversation between Ultron and Pietro Maximoff.

According to their own propaganda, the covert group is intent on the creation of the "Fourth Reich" an allusion to Nazi Germany's Third Reich.