The result, in the case of "A Christmas Tale," is a movie that is almost indecently satisfying and at the same time elusive, at once intellectually lofty — marked by allusions to Emerson, Shakespeare and Seamus Heaney as well as Nietzsche — and as earthy as the passionate provincial family that is its heart and cosmos and reason for being.
Though it proved to be in a highly incomplete state, the text was nevertheless marked by Nabokov's celebrated facility with allusion and wordplay.
Yet Calvino's writing was already marked by a fabulous gothic undertow, with allusions to medieval artists such as Hieronymus Bosch and Albrecht Atldorfer.
"Fenix," with its spectacular, rocklike backdrop marked with crevices, hieroglyphics and pictograms, is typical of his allusions to ancient times, an echo of the past to resonate in a universal view of the present.
Miller did all kinds of fashion work for British Vogue, including regular columns like "Bargain of the Month," and there are many with direct allusions to World War II — a 1942 photo of a model in tweeds peering into sacks marked "tins" and "rags" for salvage drives.
First of all is a laurel wreath marking the figure out as a writer – being an allusion to Apollo, god of poetry.
In an allusion to commercial tensions, Xi told former senior US officials, including Henry Kissinger, at his first meeting in Washington: "This year marks the election year of the United States.
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(Note Woody Allen allusion).
The fourth movement, "appassionato," develops that first kiss into an extended love scene, replete with evocations of heavy breathing and allusions, set off by quotation marks in the published score, to a phrase from Alexander Zemlinsky's "Lyric Symphony".
The star pattern on the carpet is a clever allusion to the taped marks that dancers use as reference points.
