Sentence examples for real allusion from inspiring English sources

There is a vague facial similarity between Ms. Moss and Charlotte Rampling, who played a camp survivor in "The Night Porter," but the real allusion lies in their thinness.

"From back when there was a real driver," an allusion to Dale Earnhardt, who died in a crash at the Daytona 500 in 2001.

That raven perched above the Tahitian girl in Nevermore: is it a harbinger, a real bird, a heavy allusion to Edgar Allan Poe?

Gopnik weaves in allusions to real people and places.

No doubt other real names and personal allusions are secreted in this increasingly chummy text.

Real reverence for (and allusions to) Emily Dickinson figures in this novel, as does Annabelle's early admiration for Sylvia Plath.

That's our house built upon a rock," he said, mixing two of America's favorite things — Biblical allusions and real estate.

At the same time, Things to Come is a very concrete piece of work, filled with nods and allusions to real books, movies, and pieces of music a specificity that is the director's signature.

In the previous four novels, I had scrupulously avoided even passing allusion to my real relatives in fiction, and now I know why.

The record might be photographic, or it could consist of allusions to the real thing — circles of slate laid on the floor, for example.

Mr. Westfall's paintings have always been spiced with allusions to the real world; in this show the wide-spaced triangles of "Grand Opening" evoke the strung-up pennants of a new store.