Given the profusion of religious references in many medieval objects, you wonder if the detailing had a related purpose — if captivating a viewer with such intricacy opens him to spiritual edification too.
More critically, Peter Cowie commented that the film "suffers from its profusion of cultural references and asides".
There, Moshiri's canvasses are a profusion of color, dotted with references to pop culture and Persian tropes.
The lyric is a reference to the profusion of flowers that blossomed from the hideously enriched soil of concentration camps, and its poetically charged irony inspired him to think of choreographing a comparable collage of imagistic fragments.
In fact, Mallon avoids rendering Watergate in the familiar and expected ways: there are only fleeting references to Woodward and Bernstein, and the eventual profusion of indictments and imprisonments aren't major plot points.
The passion for the inexhaustible possibilities of color is the strongest link here, but the profusion of dots to be connected, of shared interests, inspirations and references, is close to mind boggling.
There is a profusion of marble.
Hence our profusion of improbable excitements.
