Sentence examples for obvious allusion from inspiring English sources

The mischievous denial of his title's obvious allusion is consistent with Mr. Naharin's playful humor.

The designer said the title was an obvious allusion to Burberry as a rainwear company.

Vermeer is the obvious allusion, obvious from the poise, the silence, even from the pearls, like the ones Vermeer painted.

The obvious allusion in the title of Ross Douthat's new book, "Bad Religion," is to a veteran Los Angeles punk band.

This is the tendency to refer to "the pope's silence," with its obvious allusion to the Shoah, and apply it to Pope John Paul II.

"It ruffled some feathers of some people I have a good relationship with," Jackson said, in an obvious allusion to Steinbrenner.

Yes, Bradbury packed the story with futuristic technology and rather obvious allusions (Peter and Wendy as in "Peter Pan"…) but he was really writing about people, not gadgetry.

It is surely pushing it, though, to include Samantha Sweeting's stop-motion film of a dead bunny being manipulated into "movement" by a pair of disembodied hands, with its obvious allusions to the pioneering photography of Eadweard Muybridge.

So, Mighall contends, a book that contains no obvious allusions to sex - apart from one use of the word "voluptuous" - has been used to prove how much energy the Victorians invested in their programme to police sex into silence.

Stewart was originally cast in the role of Jo-Ann, which may have made for some all too obvious allusions.

And there are obvious allusions to Jesus: Superman comes into his own at the age of 33, and his adoptive parents are named Jonathan and Martha, a nod to Joseph and Mary.