Sentence examples for stylistic allusion from inspiring English sources
This is an eclectic, almost postmodern piece for a very large orchestra, full of stylistic allusion and dynamic twists, which somehow retains a unifying character and direction.
As much as he liked to design with buttons -- a stylistic allusion to the colorful constellations that his grandmother would sew on his shirts to disguise the fact that the buttons did not match -- Kelly also liked to push them.
Stylistic allusions loosen up, intermingle, and at times disappear in welters of paint that look improvised.
By calling attention to these surface tensions he de-emphasized the powerful expressive connotations of his wide-ranging stylistic allusions.
His music is just as dense, a thicket of instruments and stylistic allusions, in long songs — nine of them on this 58-minute album — that might veer off on tangents at any moment.
They have made stylistic allusions to its sartorial traditions - ecclesiastic and aristocratic - named one of their fragrances after it and used it as the backdrop for some of their most memorable advertising images.
The novels are not without pretensions: literary and historical allusions, stylistic devices and word plays, which some have compared to the works of Umberto Eco or Alexandre Dumas.
As ever in St Aubyn's fiction, the stylistic texture is literary, but allusion is comically distorted by the inclinations of his characters.
The allusive references used in Fun Home are not merely structural or stylistic: Bechdel writes, "I employ these allusions... not only as descriptive devices, but because my parents are most real to me in fictional terms.
We want the questions to encourage readers to examine evidence, note rhetorical and stylistic devices, investigate assumptions and claims, understand allusions, make predictions and consider context.
But Mr. McDuffie's program worked beautifully, not least because Mr. Glass's work is packed with allusions to the Vivaldi, refracted through his own stylistic lens.
