I encourage you, as an elected official, in the future to be respectful and not lightly reference what to you may be a chapter in a history text book but to others, never-forgotten family horrors.
Like him, he is a novelist and playwright, and there are lightly coded references to actual Storey works.
It blamed the reports on "certain satellite stations that are complicit in the shedding of Syrian blood", a lightly coded reference to the Qatar-owned al-Jazeera or the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television networks.
Historical novels run a constant risk of lurching into costume drama, especially when they employ 'real' people, and are as well-grounded as this one in historical sources: connoisseurs of the Irish revolution's profuse memoirs will hit upon countless lightly disguised references and incidents.
In a lightly veiled reference to the poem In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, the torch is passed from one comrade to another in an effort to keep alive the memory of the war dead.
Often when discussing the advent of a new era in nuclear power generation, advocates for nukes, like Stewart Brand, who I referenced in my previous post, tread lightly over certain subjects, such as waste disposal and security issues.
Paris 1919 wears its literary and historic references lightly.
But she translated these heavy references lightly, with more sweetness than arty significance, and it helped that her lines were long and lean.
Mr. Lacroix may be too old-school to treat the references lightly, but he was, in a deliriously demented way, on the right track.
Resting lightly on the floor, its airy fretwork of orange blades and beams referencing only itself, "Orangerie" needs neither history nor pictorial imagery to make its laconic point.
