The danger in so relentlessly referencing historical markers, however, is that they can trick us into looking backward over our shoulders when we ought to be focused on the unpredictable path ahead.
Salonen abandoned his flowing style and carved the air with angular beat indicators against which the concentrating players could reference their relentlessly intricate parts.
"Reference" and "privilege" are used relentlessly as verbs, as in "referencing late capitalism" or "privileging the male gaze".
In a fascinating turn, Dudgeon offers the most successful refutation of forgery to date by systematically verifying the diaries' contents, relentlessly revealing and cross-referencing new sources to pull together loose ends and flesh out identities from cryptic references and last names, such as that of Casement's alleged boyfriend: "Millar".
Everything about the new series – from the surreal film references to the relentlessly transgressive plotlines and the coarse, preachy tone – spoke of a frantic desperation to be meaningful.
This slender novel lacks the kaleidoscopic frenzy of Wagner's "cell-phone" trilogy, and its more limited range gives his relentlessly up-to-the-minute pop-trivia references a somewhat airless feel.
The show cross-references current art with the relentlessly valorized Conceptual-leaning art of the late 1960's and early 70's, viewing the United States, land of the interstate highway, with unmistakable discontent.
"It's like Colette for grown-ups," my friend zinged, a tart reference to Paris's most famous (and relentlessly youth-centric) fashion emporium.
He references a 15-year period to which one studies relentlessly to achieve this milestone.
That's probably in reference to those two decades of 'Street Talk' segments in which he's relentlessly mocked guileless, intellectually vulnerable, down-and-out strugglers for his own amusement.
