Sentence examples for layers of allusion from inspiring English sources

Her scenes, complicated by layers of allusion and multiple focuses not governed by perspective, can't be read in conventional landscape terms.

Hopefully, it will remind the viewer that, however truthful a documentary attempts to be, it is always subject to the editorial decisions of the film-maker". The use of actors enabled Barnard to introduce further layers of allusion to Dunbar's career.

Both works are based upon Davies's now familiar range of technical devices - the magic squares, transformations of plainsong fragments and carefully plotted harmonic progressions - but they also graft on further musical references and carry layers of extra-musical allusion.

At this point, given the layers of quotation and allusion, it seems silly to treat David's image as if it were, as Percy might have had it, some flimsy representation standing between himself and an unmediated world, or a private snow-globe reminder of that stretch of Interstate.

There are politics here – a dark photograph of an upturned Renault car references with an almost contradictory coolness the establishment-shaking student riots in Paris in 1968 – but to fully appreciate the layers of meaning and allusion at play here, one must be au fait with the postmodern art theory from which they emerge.

Part of the pleasure of watching a movie like "Welcome to the Punch" is peeling away the multiple layers of inspiration, isolating the allusions and figuring out if they're what works or whether the movie earns a little credit.

Some religious woodcuts were elaborate, with complex allusions and layers of meaning that would only have been apparent to the well-educated.

They've tumbled out in the weeks since the affair was discovered, each more knotty and elusive than the last, her true feelings masked by layer on layer of metaphor and allusion.

But while musicians such as Kanye West continue to layer increasingly jarring samples densely and awkwardly into a new work, for others this age of allusion is materialising in another form.

"Every Man for Himself" is more approachable than much of Mr. Godard's recent work, with its dense layers of sound and image, epigrams and allusions.

As he does in most of his more than three dozen plays, Stoppard piles allusion on top of allusion in this work.