Sentence examples for repeated allusions from inspiring English sources

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Rucker makes repeated allusions to his demographic — "76 million strong, slouching toward AARP status".

There are repeated allusions to weed and several samples of a 1971 record called "A Child's Garden of Grass: A Pre-Legalization Comedy".

Pagliacci, however, updated to the 1970s, allows Barlow's customary brilliance to break through, and repeated allusions to what we have already seen bolsters the complexity of a work that crisscrosses multiple boundaries between theatrical illusion and reality.

(There's a relevant wink along the way at Samuel Fuller's jangling masterwork "Shock Corridor".) The term that describes the link between the Wilsons and their doubles is called "tethering"—and that word, in its many grammatical forms, recurs throughout the film (not least, in repeated allusions to Hands Across America).

There are also more direct quotes sprinkled throughout: a passage from Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals," a clip of "The Ten Commandments" on television and repeated allusions to Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" (the 1935 film version and the Mendelssohn overture).

Socrates opens their debate with a somewhat jokey survey of how much the two have in common (481c-d); they later exchange speeches arguing for their diametrically opposed ways of life, with repeated allusions to the contrasted brothers Zethus and Amphion in Euripides' play Antiope (485e, 486d, 489e, 506b).

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"It's surprising" that the accord was not mentioned, it said, "while the judge takes his time, in a disrespectful way, to make repeated allusion to the president of Venezuela".

His evocation of the city's muscular girth, edged by distant Manhattan, the glimpse he gives us of the mumblers, and his repeated allusion to the drone of a single-engine plane flying across the swath of the city -- these are moments of pure perception.

And Mr. Martins makes repeated choreographic allusions to ballets by Balanchine.

I did impute to "Republicans and conservative commentators" an indirect responsibility, insofar as their repeated violent allusions constituted playing with fire in front of a frenzied public, and I stand comfortably behind that.

In addition to these techniques, he relied on repeated language and allusions to traditional works and to scripture for a source of authority in various works, especially in his Hymns.

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