His first book, Dreams of My Father, was lyrically written, and heavy with allusions and references.
Did the movie's version of that scene feel like a satisfying final twist, or a heavy-handed allusion to the previous boozing?
Mr. Biden's coming-out speech in Springfield, Ill., was heavy on allusions to his Irish-Catholic roots in Scranton, Pa., and to the "cops and firefighters, the teachers and the line workers" with whom he grew up.
Her very name — a heavy-handed allusion to Beatrice, a symbol of divine inspiration in Dante's "Divine Comedy," and perhaps to the high-spirited heroine of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" — comes to feel like a bad, ironic joke.
Throughout, Pusha sneers his dense allusions.
No heavy-handed allusions and allegories to weed through.
Tom Leykis, whose syndicated show is heavy on comic allusions to female body parts, invited callers sympathetic to the aims of radical Islam to explain their side.
Paul has been sly about positioning on this, however; at the Value Voters conference earlier this month, Paul gave a rousingly xenophobic speech heavy on Biblical allusions to Muslims' perfidy… he just declined to say we should bomb them.
The fourth movement, "appassionato," develops that first kiss into an extended love scene, replete with evocations of heavy breathing and allusions, set off by quotation marks in the published score, to a phrase from Alexander Zemlinsky's "Lyric Symphony".
A conversation with this man is like nothing else on earth; in a heavy patois, he dances from allusion to allusion, rhyming words on-the-fly like a mystical poet and erupting into cheeky giggles.
