Sentence examples for highly allusive from inspiring English sources

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The costumes were, if not naturalistic, highly allusive accumulations of objects that recalled the dema and their creations.

Frequently combining haiku and tersely brushed images, Buson offered the viewer jarring, highly allusive, and complementary readings of a complex emotional matrix.

Tom McCarthy's Satin Island is a hard diamond – highly allusive and infuriatingly intangible, it is at once rare, of tremendous clarity and very much look-but-don't-touch.

Indeed, the combination of striking illustrations and highly allusive narrative makes the book read like an episode of "Tintin" as written by Umberto Eco.

The book is misanthropic and highly allusive — with the addled but endearing tone of "Notes from Underground," and a clear nod to Kafka (during break-ins, the protagonist is transformed into the insect of the title).

These references seep out of his highly allusive, often poetic forms in waves, evoking the earlier Modernism of Brancusi, Arp, Noguchi and Duchamp, but also carpentry, basket weaving, African sculpture and the building of shelter and ships.

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Although written in a highly literary, allusive style, the editorial includes several phrases clearly reminiscent of Ai's work.

The transition, for an exquisite craftsman of a poet such as Muldoon, from the world of his tightly controlled, highly elusive and allusive poetry, to the rough and tumble of rock and song-noir, would not have been traumatic.

The looming piece stands alongside the rest of the Capote's highly symbolic and allusive show, containing many years of works including a gilt bronze hammer and sickle, cast bronze hands spelling out "Freedom" in sign language, and silver prints laid in porcelain urinals. .

It's densely worked, highly varied and intriguingly allusive, though never likely to reveal its secrets easily.

The poem's style is highly complex, erudite, and allusive, and the poet provided notes and references to explain the work's many quotations and allusions.

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