Sentence examples for indirect allusions from inspiring English sources

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There are more indirect allusions in Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo.

Some might complain that it's already out of date with its indirect allusions to Tessa Jowell and Tony Blair.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

Mr. Mapfumo and his bands (the Acid Band from 1976-78 and the Blacks Unlimited afterward) disseminated protest messages cloaked in metaphors or indirect allusions; his records were outlawed and at one point he was jailed, but he continued to make records.

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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").

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.

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.

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