His style unfortunately defies poetical translation, and his complicated fabric of plain and inverted images, of hidden and overt allusions, is well-nigh impossible for all but the initiated Muslim reader to disentangle.
And, back in the states, roughly a decade after Disney's 1951 animated production of the film, the book was again met with dismay this time by parents in culture-changing America during the 1960s, as they believed that it, along with the movie, encouraged the evolving drug culture with its "overt" allusions to hallucinogenic drug usage.
In many ways, Smithers represents the stereotype of a closeted gay man, and numerous overt allusions and double entendres concerning his homosexuality are made, though some of the show's producers instead interpret him as a "Burns-sexual".
You don't have to recognize this film's overt cinematic allusions to be aware of its indebtedness.
Gone is a fair amount of the overt sexuality, the allusions to cannibalism, a sexual relationship between Riff Raff and his sister Magenta, and, saddest of all, Rocky's glorious gold Speedo that's so skimpy even Tom Daley would think twice about wearing it in public.
On Fox News, Hitler allusions are less overt, but crazy talk about Obama — dating to a 2008 suggestion that Michelle Obama's playful knuckle bump with her husband may have been "a terrorist fist jab" — is the stock in trade.
The promotional ramp-up for Rihanna's 2009 release "Rated R" didn't shy away from allusions, both covert and overt, to her assault at the hands of the R&B star Chris Brown.
Different styles of argumentation, flights of rhetorical fancy, numerous puns, intertextual allusions, un-sourced citations, and overt appeals to faith all compete for the reader's attention.
D'Angelo's self-described landscape is filled with as many subtle allusions to politics as it is with overt indictments.
Much too overt for Europeans, whose alarm at George W. Bush's presidency has been fed by his allusions to divine guidance — "the hand of a just and faithful God" in shaping events, or his trust in "the ways of Providence".
