Sentence examples for knowing allusion from inspiring English sources
He teams up here with Mr. Iverson, the pianist in the Bad Plus and a serious student of jazz history; their rapport is sure to make knowing allusion to Lacy's work with the pianist Mal Waldron.
He teams up with Mr. Iverson, the pianist in the Bad Plus and a serious student of jazz history; their rapport is sure to make knowing allusion to Lacy's work with the pianist Mal Waldron.
There is a skilful comment on why this is good for boys and men too, then a knowing allusion to Clinton's concession speech in 2008 when she referred to cracking but not breaking the glass ceiling.
He also threw in a digression about the Sicilian sources of the modern Italian novel, with a knowing allusion to Lampedusa's The Leopard (filmed by his mentor and lover, Luchino Visconti).
Even so, she has become a fixture, or at least an occasional ornament, in that culture, appearing in Woody Allen's "Zelig" and popping up as a knowing allusion in an early episode of "The Simpsons" and in the lyrics to Jonathan Larson's "Rent".
Given the amount of lurid media speculation about the Knowles-Carter union, you could have reasonably expected Beyonce to step discreetly around the subject of what you might call Hova's legova, for fear of giving the gossip mags further fuel: perhaps a knowing allusion here and there, the odd bitter reference to the press intruding on her personal life.
His conversation is peppered with knowing allusions to pop culture -- Britney Spears, Tori Amos, television sitcoms, rap and Broadway.
There are three-chord rock songs and chromatic wanderings, homages to Phil Spector and knowing allusions to the Beach Boys' own past.
They add layers of harmony and counterpoint, toy with meter and melody, make knowing allusions and take structural detours without forgetting the beat.
And I'm still trying to decide whether the best thing I got from the show was the introduction to Westermann's utterly unique art or the pleasure of Blake's clever and knowing allusions.
If Garlin fills his film with knowing allusions to old pop culture, such as Jackie Gleason, classic movies, and jazz LPs, he does it with a point: his modern world is a thin and lonely place.
