Sentence examples for indirect allusion from inspiring English sources

It's an indirect allusion to my father, but it shows how inescapable he is!" Richardson's biography argues that the purpose of Picasso's art is exorcism, the casting-out of evil, achieved by the black magic of his deformations.

In one or two places in the story, most notably with his discussion of suicide and of syphilis, Flaubert makes indirect allusion to his celebrated "Dictionary of Received Ideas" (or "Accepted Ideas").

All that was required was for Obama to make an indirect allusion to race — his remark that he doesn't look like the Presidents on the currency — in order to trigger McCain's charge that Obama is the one who's "playing the race card".

Only indirect allusion was made to legal, institutional and economic topics.

They had personal tacit knowledge of the usefulness of the forested environment, as opposed to abstract, generalised ideas, but only indirect allusion was made to legal, institutional and economic topics.

They kept it secret until 2011, when a lawyer for the agency made an "indirect allusion" to the data centre.

Some might complain that it's already out of date with its indirect allusions to Tessa Jowell and Tony Blair.

But the Nazis' persecution of the Jews is clearly on her mind, and the book is full of indirect allusions to it.

In his homily to an invited congregation of area church leaders and lay dignitaries, the pope delivered a traditional holy day message venerating the memory of the Virgin Mary and avoiding even indirect allusions to religious divisions here.

It's a whole galaxy of indirects, cloaked pot-shots, allusion and lyrical dexterity.

Perhaps not so indirect as Ms. Warner's sometimes cryptic allusions, but nowhere near so obvious as the latest computer-manipulated filmic wizardry.