Sentence examples for in copious references from inspiring English sources

In their Matrix triology, the filmmakers Andy and Larry Wachowski lobbed in copious references to Baudrillard to give their work a little philosophical heft.

They killed the former US Army Ranger Peter Kassig in Dabiq, the site of a key end times battle in some apocalypse tales, while making copious references to the Day of Judgement and our nation's role in their vision.

They killed the former US Army Ranger Peter Kassig in Dabiq, the site of a significant end times battle in some apocalypse tales, while making copious references to the Day of Judgement and our nation's role in their vision.

The women as a whole come strongly out of this production; Sandra Duncan's Duchess of York treats her insanely ambitious son with aristocratic distaste as if she can't quite believe he sprang from her womb, and Paola Dionisotti's Queen Margaret haunts the action like a vengeful bag lady (making good sense of the copious references to past events in the text).

Filled with philosophical ruminations and copious references to literature, art, film and music, the book is in many ways as much of a surprise hit as its publisher.

Wisely or warily, he avoids taking sides in the great controversies; a good teacher, he presents the "on the one hand" along with the "on the other," copious references included.

The play's idiosyncratic imagery, which includes copious references to birds and wind and fish, often defies clear interpretation.

The copious references to iPod Touches and plasma TVs don't so much ground Theo's narrative in a recognisable contemporary setting as make the whole structure seem oddly artificial; there is a sense almost of an over-researched historical novel, in which period details have been crowbarred in more or less at random.

At New Wimbledon Theatre, Dallas star Gray gives an utterly charming, if at times tentative performance as the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, well served by a script by Eric Potts (the most prolific of today's panto writers) that makes copious references to Texas, oil and Southfork – and she channels Sue Ellen, swigging from a hip flask on a chain (bejewelled, of course) around her neck.

(For a recent defence of causalism about motivating reasons with copious references to relevant literature see Mele 2003, esp. chapter 2).

Simpson's creator Matt Groening is also the creator of Futurama which also has copious references to various Kubrick films.