Sentence examples for with its overtones from inspiring English sources

"It was Extreme Archaeology (with its overtones of tokenism) meets Indiana Jones (cue the improvised flaming torch and the destruction of the most important archaeological find ever to be made minutes after its discovery)" said Julian Richards - while admitting that he was glued to the screen.

But as the film pursues the metaphoric link between cutlery and concupiscence, with its overtones of risk and domination, it loses some of its insouciant accuracy.

"Excellence" evokes Aristotle with its overtones of virtue.

The fish, however, with its overtones of honey and sesame oil glaze, was fine.

Hence the success of the torch relay with its overtones of a local summer carnival, its human scale.

He has Rachel Whiteread's melancholy cast of the underside of a bath, with its overtones of both headstone and sarcophagus.

Still, he tried to have his bike blessed last year, he said, but the attending priest balked at the "666" etched on it, with its Satanist overtones.

So it came as a surprise when, at a 2008 news conference announcing the current season, he said of Britten's "War Requiem," with its pacifist overtones, "It's a statement that needs to be made".

The mysterious quality of the music, composed by Kyle Olsen and Matthew Meade (who played it live), with its Japanese overtones of knocking percussion and high, bell-like resonances, contributes a great deal to "Fluster," as does another score by these composers for "Plot," an all-female quintet.

But it was that personality, with its Medusa overtones, that overshadowed all else, including her significant accomplishments as a hotel-chain builder and manager of portfolio assets.

A powerfully emotive work in which Jacob is being supported by an angel, it stands in contrast to the iconic Rock Drill, which, with its mechanical overtones, expressed the artist's revulsion at the carnage of the first world war.