Allusive

A Cloudy and rainy Day, staid at home; spent the day Writing, Reading and Chatting -- I think it observable that our Language is more and more sliding into modes of expression allusive and allegorical, approximating to the eastern stile -- Professional Men, Lawyers, Seamen, Soldiers ❋ Unknown (1922)

The second species of accommodation, called allusive, is often a mere play on words and at times seems due to a misunderstanding of the original meaning. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

He's in a Gotham City (the very name allusive of the word gothic, if not outright derived from it) graveyard, in fact, at the grave of Batman, the mainstream superhero of the DC universe most easily associated with horror--from the very concept of his character and its association with vampires (an association made literal in comics from Red Rain to Nosferatu), it's hardly an accident that he's the superhero who appeared in Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson's macabre early issues of Swamp Thing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

DreamWorks, in particular, has made the kind of allusive, parodic cultural self-consciousness that used to be called postmodernism safe for the whole family. ❋ By A. O. SCOTT (2010)

Jarmusch is the director who puts the loose in "allusive" and the lipstick in "elliptical"; I fully recognize his movies aren't to everybody's taste. ❋ Unknown (2010)

'prays in aid of similes,' -- that this is a specimen of what he calls elsewhere 'allusive' writing. ❋ Delia Bacon (1835)

It did so again on Monday, when the Israelis went to the Bayreuth festival fringe and played the Siegfried Idyll, an allusive chamber orchestral piece written by Wagner to celebrate his son's birth during the writing of his opera Siegfried. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Time is simultaneously the star and an extra, protagonist and antagonist, the crescendo and the anti-climax, the narrative and an abstraction, the subject and the subtext - it's tangible and yet allusive. ❋ Rebecca Taylor (2010)

I absolutely loved the other books of his I've read; The Book, The Writer contains a story that every reader should read, while The Last Book was just allusive enough to make me feel smugly educated while still entertaining with an enjoyable genre plot. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You can't hide behind an elaborate form or allusive obscurity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Unlike other far more lyrically explicit works from Dylan's brief but cataclysmically influential "protest song" period – a term that he always hated – such as The Times They Are A-Changin', Masters Of War or With God On Our Side, both songs are oblique and allusive, dealing in metaphor, imagery and allegory rather than any issue-based topical specifics. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the "name game," being allusive can be a powerful attribute. ❋ Tom Grasty (2012)

While the poetry is cryptic, allusive and ambiguous, the prose is lucid, oracular, loftily self-assured. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Who else has Wolfe's hand at style-that almost immediately recognizable Wolfean style, intelligent, complex, allusive, and above all meticulously phrased? ❋ Unknown (2010)

The simplicity of Crichton Smith's verse belies its intellectual rigours and allusive range. ❋ Unknown (2011)

While Mr. Eliot's early poems, most notably "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), had brought him considerable attention in literary circles, it was "The Waste Land" (1922), a fragmentary and highly allusive verse epic, that gave him his central position in British and American poetry. ❋ James Zinsmeister (2010)

This game is highly allusive and drops constant references to other works like its Gaiman's Sandman. ❋ Unknown (2009)