If intended, the allusion was apt: Disney Hall as a vessel from another world, landing at the corner of First and Grand.
Whether or not Hamilton intended this allusion to Masaccio, Swingeing London 67 is a brilliant example of a modern artist discovering inspiration in a photograph taken by a paparazzo.
Did the folks who decided that a Web site devoted to the Borden Cheese brand sold by the Dairy Farmers of America cooperative ought to be called friendsofelsie.com intend the allusion to "Friends of Dorothy," a slang term used to designate gay men?
As Gatiss puts it: 'Everything is canonical.' " Sarah Crompton, for The Telegraph, identifies some of the jokes and allusions intended for fans.
The band has said that the name was not intended to be an allusion to the Soviet Bloc or the Canadian political party Bloc Québécois.
No allusion is intended and there's certainly no racial subtext to the film but it's rather amusingly off-putting to see them help ranch hands and farmers while wearing such a vile symbol of hatred.
The affinities occurred outside the familiar realm of echoes and allusions, of intended references.
O.K., the allusion-happy Farrellys intended the scene, shot through the landlady's crooked leg, as an homage to a similar frame in "The Graduate" (in which Anne Bancroft, as the Ur-older woman, was actually 36 to Dustin Hoffman's real-life 30).
Pardon the religious allusion — no slight is intended — but talk about your immaculate reception.
Criticized for his recent message about Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Trump insisted that no allusion to Jews was intended and denounced reporters for drawing the connection.
