Most of the show leaned on that kind of pop-culture mockery without allusions to the terrorist attacks.
When such concepts were replaced by precisely defined alternatives without allusions to space, time or motion, our intuitive expectations turned out to be unreliable (Hahn 1933).
Paranoid and yet (even without any allusion to America post-9/11) utterly plausible.
It can certainly be argued that no appraisal of his multifaceted achievement, like the Balanchine 100 celebration now under way at Lincoln Center, would be complete without some allusion to his showman side.
(What would a trade secrets case be without an allusion to Coke's secret formula?) Kevin Marino, the defense lawyer for Mr. Aleynikov, spent much of his opening statement acknowledging that his client undoubtedly -- and foolishly -- violated Goldman's confidentiality policy in downloading code from the firm's computers.
They genuinely blend cultures in their observations, with the insights available only from a new vantage point, literally neither black nor white; or, they specialize in art and sports, fashion and firearms, without any allusion to their lineage.
Even without the allusions to the old days, his speech seemed strangely reminiscent of that first campaign, and not necessarily in a good way.
Without the allusions and nods and winks and endless circling back most of us would be left with a corrosive silence that'd suck the foam off every pint on the table.
For another inspired pairing, "Monarchs and Queens," the poet Aaron Shurin writes an exquisite essay on emerging gender identity, coupled with a map of "Butterfly Habitats and Queer Public Spaces"; in someone else's hands, the wing-spreading metaphor could have been cloying, but Shurin acknowledges the obvious allusion without belaboring it.
