Part of the pyrotechnics is Phillips's range of reference.
The author's range of reference is frighteningly vast, and is played, always, for bitter laughs.
What comes strongest off it, instead, is a cosmopolitan range of reference.
The breadth of thinking and the range of reference in The Anatomy of Influence are astonishing.
Bubbles is every bit as vagrant and curious in its range of reference as the volumes still to be translated.
Edna O'Brien apparently researched this novel carefully: it shows in the variety of stories and range of reference and facts.
So the range of reference deployed by Mr. Scogan, the accredited philosopher, can be imagined; or, rather, it can't.
Considering its prepubescent target audience, the breadth of T3's range of reference is impressive, albeit kinda redundant.
There is a potentially fatal unwillingness to trust the reader to get the point or the full range of reference.
The range of reference here is dated, but then so is Mr. Johnson.
I think Bruno Tonioli is very intelligent – he talks well, and has a very wide range of reference, and he uses very good similes.
