Sentence examples for making allusions to from inspiring English sources

The ad featured Pam making allusions to the story of her difficult pregnancy with "Timmy" while she and her husband, Bob, worked in the Philippines.

Secretary of State John Kerry is busy making allusions to Munich, and the skeptics in the Pentagon are keeping their doubts to themselves.

In December 2014 the information ministry was launched to counter Russian propaganda, and it was quickly dubbed the "ministry of truth" by those making allusions to its Orwellian nature.

Sandbrook tells the story of McCarthy looking down from his suite in the Hilton Hotel as the Chicago police beat up protesters on Michigan Avenue, and he repeats the reports that McCarthy was, at first, cool to the scene, making allusions to the Punic Wars and the like.

As well as making allusions to the death of George IV, outbreaks of cholera and the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832, its characters discuss the coming of the railway and the impact of industrialisation on a settled Midland English world.

"A fair few people started making allusions to Gregory Crewdson after those paintings were made.

He said he read extensively; he made allusions to Tolstoy and Pushkin, Hemingway and Gertrude Stein.

Friends expressed shock at their concurrent illnesses and made allusions to Greek tragedy.

But they've made allusions to the fact in our last two proposals that we have to discuss those issues.

He used Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" in one film and he makes allusions to "Brave New World" in another.

Though Falwell frequently makes allusions to sports, it is the military analogy that is central to his view of the church and its role in the world.