Sentence examples for there were allusions from inspiring English sources

There were allusions to senninbari ("thousand-person-stitches"), belts made for Japanese soldiers that incorporate single embroidery stitches collected from 1,000 people.

Amid Mr. Lubovitch's weight-shifting style, there were allusions to ballet classics: "Apollo," "Fancy Free" and "Le Spectre de la Rose".

In the roundness of the opening jackets, in the gentle sweep of coats and in the cap sleeves and loose-back tops, there were allusions to Balenciaga's 1950s modernity, as well as '60s evening styles.

There were allusions to God but little evidence of his existence until Laurie Carlos spun slowly onto the stage of the Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church on Saturday.

In amongst the totalitarian paraphernalia there are allusions to witches and princesses, as well as to stage scenery.

There are allusions as well to troubling sensations.

It lasts three hours, the characters sometimes speak Latin, and there are allusions to Greek myth.

There are allusions to camera obscuras and other antique optical devices.

Nolan is occasionally described as the inheritor of Stanley Kubrick's mantle, and there are allusions.

And if there are allusions, they should be relevant to the restaurant, to the ingredients — to something concrete.

But there are allusions to empty and plundered homes, to businesses driven out and Orthodox churches abandoned.