Sentence examples for giving allusions from inspiring English sources

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His fans inferred the reason he and Thomas split is due to infidelity on his part, giving allusions to the lyrics of the songs.

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This dating makes sense given their allusions and opposition to Gnostic and docetic teaching, which denied the full humanity of Jesus, and which was gaining ascendancy at the end of the first century.

Note: trying to decrease the overwhelmed feelings by drinking or doing drugs may give the allusion of working temporarily, but the feeling will still be there in the morning, plus you'll have a hangover.

When applicable, make allusions to things that help explain a thought or idea, or that will otherwise give the listener a better idea of what you're trying to say.

The result is a sober costume drama of loosely strung incidents from the diary, with the author, on screen, filling in the blanks, elaborating on the allusions and giving a notion of how a scholar works.

If ever a president authored his own fate, it is Mr Sarkozy, whose anti-Islamic stance and racist allusions gave legitimacy to the public grievances amplified by Marine Le Pen, for whom one in five have voted.

Carax gives us cinephile allusions to Jean Cocteau, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Demy and Georges Franju in the course of the film; with a chilling mask, Scob reprises her own famous persona from Franju's 1960 film Eyes Without a Face.

The poet had to follow strict rules laid down by the masters of rhetoric, rigidly observing the harmonious selection of similes thought proper to any one given sphere (four allusions to Qurʾānic figures, for example, or three garden images all given in a single verse).

The Old Testament allusions gave Jeannie an odd feeling.

As someone who wrote recently about the "Truman Show" delusion, this allusion gives me pause.

If you'll forgive the allusion, given that sports sponsorship is of considerably less importance, it offers a good model to explain the recent behaviour of Adidas towards its partners.

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