The comment, based on Hagel's lack of enthusiasm for war on Iran and his single allusion to advocates of Israel as "the Jewish lobby," was of a piece with last year's in-your-face Republican line that Obama, a strong supporter of Israeli security, had thrown Israel "under the bus".
The single allusion to Mīkāl in the Qurʾān (2 98) states: "Whoever is an enemy of God or his angels or his apostles or Jibrīl or Mīkāl, verily God is an enemy of the unbelievers".
Associations and allusions, of course.
It was all there in the allusions of her poetry.
The affinities occurred outside the familiar realm of echoes and allusions, of intended references.
The allusions of novelists and poets are different from academic citations.
Sir David Lindsay would have been well aware of the symbolic allusions of the carvings.
"The Windsor claim relies on a single, vague literary allusion in a work of fiction," concluded the report.
The first single, the "Boots of Chinese Plastic" — the title seems to be an allusion to Bob Dylan's "Boots of Spanish Leather," though the song sounds more like "Tombstone Blues" — can be downloaded for free from Spinner.com.
One theory speaks of an allusion to the name of the country: White Ruthenia.
