Sentence examples for make subtle reference from inspiring English sources

Many of the works make subtle reference to Ai's situation.

His cookbooks make subtle reference to the canned foods and unhappy aunts and grief of his childhood.

She went on to make subtle reference to an argument Galloway picked with a brewery in his former constituency.

Tiny circles that pattern the off-white background make subtle reference to the invisible microballoons as well as to the archetypal soccer ball's patchwork of black pentagons and white hexagons.

Even Miuccia Prada, in her sprightly Miu Miu show in Milan, made subtle reference to the iconography of surfers, whom Timothy Leary once called the evolutionary "throw aheads" of mankind, since they aspired to a purely aesthetic state of being.

Because he also makes subtle reference to history.

Still, her most recent record makes subtle references to more adult relationships, including lines such as "There's a drawer of my things at your place".

Robert Schumann recast a lovelorn rhapsody as the passionate Fantasy in C (Op. 17), which quotes a Beethoven song cycle and makes subtle references to other works.

He made subtle references to his own life and set these autobiographical records in public spaces to challenge the boundary between private and public.

Miller was Truffaut's production manager on several occasions and made subtle references to the older director's work in many of his own films, almost always mentioning him in interviews.

"I wonder," says St Louis, "do they slam doors and run up their parents' phone bills?" There's a painting by Holbein in London's National Gallery called The Ambassadors which makes subtle references to the more colourful events of the court of King Henry VIII.