Sentence examples for literary allusion from inspiring English sources

— and also making a literary allusion.

A serious literary allusion, or a snickering joke?

Literary allusion or not, if we're using Elizabethan English, it should be grammatical.

Don't lose your head looking for an avian complement to Crane: it's a literary allusion.

The book makes a fetish of literary allusion; it is brilliant and joyless.

Nothing comparable to it is known from any ancient scientific text or literary allusion.

Nothing comparable to it is known from any ancient scientific text or literary allusion," he wrote.

While stylistically austere or self-limiting, Ishiguro's fiction revels in literary allusion and generic playfulness.

Informed by lightly worn research, her books were intelligent and full of literary allusion.

A different chancellor would have milked the literary allusion for a few cheap laughs.

Heiner Goebbels's music theatre is a world of literary allusion, knowing intellectualism and avant-garde glamour.