Allusions

Word ALLUSIONS
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What do we mean by allusions?

An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned

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The word "allusions" in example sentences

The first of the three allusions is the First Amendment itself. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of my favorite allusions is in the title of the short story by Haikasoru friend and Otsuichi fan Briane Keene, author of “The King, In: Yellow.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

The lyrics contain allusions to black cats, walking under ladders, and spilling salt shakers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"[Clint] Eastwood does not generally traffic in allusions or visual quotations; his visual style is decidedly classical, rather than postmodern, emphasizing plainness, transparency and the efficient delivery of narrative information," writes AO Scott, selecting his from a point in Letters From Iwo Jima when two soldiers are brought to a cave. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Baraheni is a Turkish speaker from Tabriz, and his poems, which lay a heavy emphasis on the material and the earthy, contain allusions to Ezra Pound, Walter Benjamin, and Charles Baudelaire. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Arabic literature abounds in allusions to this unpleasant category of “damned ill-natured friends;” and Spanish and Portuguese letters, including Brazilian, have thoroughly caught the trick. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The concluding stanza may have wandered as far in its allusions from the opening stanza, as the last from the first sentence in an essay. ❋ Unknown (1872)

She called allusions to that effect "irresponsible." ❋ Unknown (2011)

In a piece on pop culture references within The Sopranos, Mike Antonucci suggests that the net effect of the series’ many allusions is to complicate its central question: “Is this a show about them being like us, or us being like them?” ❋ Unknown (2001)

Reading the poems and picking apart the allusions is the stock-in-trade of a whole raft of China scholars in China and elsewhere. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In that same essay, in the paragraphs on the Puritans, the allusions are a multitude. ❋ Unknown (1912)

He recalled allusions in the press to one William Plummer, otherwise "King" ❋ Unknown (1890)

"Do you recall the allusions of Bertaud, monsieur?" ❋ ��mile Gaboriau (1852)

(allusions, that is, to the single book with whose language, from his church-going habits, he is intimate) are _not_ frequent on his lips? ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

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