Sentence examples for subtle allusion from inspiring English sources

Its name, 67 Orange Street, is a subtle allusion to an even earlier era.

As the saint bleeds to death into the baptismal pool a subtle allusion to the belief that violent death in the name of faith represents a second and yet holier baptism, baptism by blood an angel descends to thrust the martyr's palm branch into his hands.

The addition of the words "the America we love" — rather than something simple like "Unleash the people, rebuild the country" — is a subtle allusion to the idea that neither his Republican rivals nor the Democratic president love the country quite as much as Mr. Gingrich does.

The most powerful, yet subtle, allusion is to Twain's Huck and Jim; though William and Morrison do not travel together, the structure of the novel places them on parallel tracks of revelation that converge as the action moves toward its climax.

At the opening of the devolved Scottish parliament in 1999, the SNP contingent wore white roses – a subtle allusion to a haunting lyric by the nationalist poet Hugh MacDiarmid: "The rose of all the world is not for me / I want for my part / Only the little white rose of Scotland / That smells sharp and sweet – and breaks the heart".

And not just because of the subtle allusion to film photography in the shape of the graphic.

Would the screenwriter have made such subtle allusions to his criminality without ever paying them off in one of the sequels?

"The Fence", with its subtle allusions to Robert Frost, echoes back to the literary allusions in the first half of the collection; Motion is always in touch with his poetic forefathers, conscious of the historical voices he is in conversation with.

Mr. Henze's music turns toward the fantastical in Act II, with fleeting hints of tonality, incursions of electronic sound fashioned by Francesco Antonioni, and subtle allusions to Britten and even Mozart.

He was dressed casually, with only subtle allusions to his trendy tastes — a Supreme x TNF baseball cap, rare Nikes — and was accompanied by his mother, his manager, and a couple of friends.

From these three symphonies onward, he ceased to adapt his songs as whole sections or movements, but in each he introduced subtle allusions, either to his Wunderhorn songs or to his settings of poems by Friedrich Rückert, including the cycle Kindertotenlieder (1901 04; Songs on the Deaths of Children).