Sentence examples for this allusion from inspiring English sources
This allusion to the magic of music was not haphazard.
As someone who wrote recently about the "Truman Show" delusion, this allusion gives me pause.
Sellars gave Finley an indication of what this allusion might mean: "It's like, 'Oh, really, Edward, you're worried about losing your soul?
This allusion to the circumstances of Williams's own accidental death is tasteless in itself, but it also has the effect of suggesting that the play to follow, presumably the playwright's last dream, represents the confused outpourings of a poisoned, disordered mind.
In one instance, he evokes the biblical tale of the infant Moses and the pharaoh's daughter to describe his own cultural adoption by the guardians of the "alien palace" that was the British Empire, but then quickly retreats, calling this allusion the "sheer effrontery" of "the glowworm comparing itself to the full moon".
This allusion led the author of the Letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament to translate the name Melchizedek as "king of righteousness" and Salem as "peace," so that Melchizedek is made to foreshadow Christ, stated to be the true king of righteousness and peace (Heb. 7 2).
And yet, more often I see comedians apologising for being intelligent, faux-mocking their own presumption, lest this or that allusion to ballet or opera or art alienate their mainstream crowd.
"It cannot plausibly be maintained that this vulgar allusion to the Selective Service System would conjure up such psychic stimulation".
He did not show her the text until after it went to press, because, "I know that you would forbid this public allusion to your labors and sacrifices".
Many people assumed that this coy allusion was to Justice Byron White, one of the 4 dissenters in that case, who was seated on the dais.
The significance of this particular allusion (if it is one) is less arresting than a larger problem: How analytically should a reader interpret a work of art when it feels unfinished or unpolished?
