How To Use Allusion In A Sentence

The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ... "Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done."
It was written about B.C. 2, from the allusion, i. 171, to the 'naumachia' in that year, The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
He probably intended it as an exact classical allusion.
The allusions are swift, the collisions reminiscent of the ‘ply over ply’ technique of Ezra Pound's Cantos, but to more disjunctive ends.
He never uses allusions, elliptical expressions, never pretends to know what he doesn't.

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This allusion consists of two (fairly common) words embedded in a four-word phrase.
Use the term advisedly, as some find it an offensive allusion to the disabled. Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
It could be a hypocoristic or baby-talk form of hysterical, or it might be from the imitative word hiss; or perhaps it is a variant of another dialect term, jesse, meaning a ` severe scolding, 'which is probably from a Biblical allusion. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
Resolution I. -- That the Society be called the Fabian Society (as Mr. Podmore explained in allusion to the victorious policy of Fabius The History of the Fabian Society
Kidd makes much of a Miltonic allusion that he perceives in "woful" as spoken by Buck Mulligan. 'Making the Wrong Joyce': An Exchange
In Germany it is called the ruffle pigeon, in allusion to the feathers on its breast; and it has rarely any feathers on its feet. The Book of Household Management
But I am thankful to live in times when men no longer have the temptation to write so as to call blushes on women’s cheeks, and would shame to whisper wicked allusions to honest boys. Roundabout Papers
Many other trial records evidently contain allusions to fairies which have been cloaked with demonological definition, however only those which contain direct references to fairies will be used as evidence of popular fairy belief.
Without once explicitly citing Israel's scriptures, it contains more allusions thereto than any other New Testament writing.
There are many excellent moments of historical allusion, acting and scriptwriting.
He sprinkles his conversation with historical allusions.
The committee made no allusion to the former President in its report.
Here seems to be an allusion to the lamps which Gideon's soldiers carried in earthen pitchers, Jud. vii. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
did you catch that allusion?
Poems of other genre are replete with allusions to incidents and personalities drawn from jataka stories.
Great Regulars: For all his Hindu allusions, he Derek Mahon displays a resistance to the transcendental: eschewing good Karma, he sprays "Deet" at a mosquito, despite being reincarnated as "a mozzie myself once". Archive 2009-09-01
The book is packed with stimulating philosophical (and depressingly prophetic) allusion within the author's own field, but ends up as a bit of a rigmarole.
The play abounds in biblical and religious allusions, typical of Romantic works, and also prevalent in the comedia lacrimosa.
a figurative kind, as the word peacock, and furthermore the allusion to Nicholas's nose, which was not intended to be taken in its literal sense, but rather to bear a latitude of construction according to the fancy of the hearers. Nicholas Nickleby
The sensitive plant is too vulgar an allusion; but if the truth of modern naturalists may be depended upon, there is a plant which, instead of receding timidly from the intrusive touch, angrily protrudes its venomous juices upon all who presume to meddle with it: – do not you think this plant would be your fittest emblem? Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
The result is a game of spot the allusion, with the final mass exodus dictated more by Chekhovian precedent than any kind of political logic.
allusive speech is characterized by allusions
It's interesting to see how many references or allusions to these festivals remain in contemporary Britain.
The 1968 allusion is not superficial: the images these girls are summoning, just as much as the van-smashers did, are pictures of revolution ? the real thing, in its romantic and large-minded soixante-huitard form. Student protests: the riot girls
Gord Downie is one of the few songwriters whose lyrics still emanate the qualities of poetry and Downie's literary allusions are many.
From the repeated allusions to offering, oblation, and victim, it becomes clear that the action is a sacrifice.
The punning allusion to the Cubism of Picasso's eyes is exact.
Even if, like me, you tend to put the most personal details of your thoughts through a fine mesh of allusion and obfuscation, you're still putting your life online.
Nor can we close this article without some allusion to the translators of and adapters from the Irish, of whom two stand out pre-eminently, Lady Gregory in prose and Dr. Sigerson in verse. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
She would have been quite willing to shew to her mother all these expressions of her lover's love; but she felt that it would not be fair to him to expose his allusions to the "beastliness" at the stations. An Eye for an Eye
Some authorities, including Maspero, [285] are of opinion that the allusion to the Hatti which is found in the Babylonian _Book of Omens_ belongs to the earlier age of Sargon of Akkad and Naram-Sin, but Sayce favours the age of Hammurabi. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
Forby derives [cook-eels] from coquille, in allusion to their being fashioned like an escallop, in which sense he is borne out by Cotgrave, who has "Pain coquillé, a fashion of an hard-crusted loafe, somewhat like our stillyard bunne. Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850
The audible allusion is to the passage that records the sudden eruption of joy at the top of stanza IX in the "Intimations" Ode, more specifically a few lines on, when the poet says that it is not for the The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth
The allusion to clouds is anything but fortuitous, emphasizing as it does the link between the sound of drums and thunder.
The approach is primarily mythopoeic, recognising that spiritual truths are better understood by means of allusion and symbol rather than through doctrine.
The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ... "Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done."
This is an incidental allusion to him on the cartulary of Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate, which shows him in a more favourable light. Bedlam
But a television presenter declared -- half-joking, half-serious -- that "there will be no 'honey nor caramels' at the event this weekend... because they're bad for your teeth," in a clear reference to the likelihood of presenting the controversial rhythm with its direct sexual allusions. Yoani Sanchez: Cuba's Communist Party Worries About Our Tastes in Music
AOF had a lusher production than previous studio outings; the bleakness was gone, but other strengths came to the for, a wider pallet of musical meaning and allusion became available. The Blue Oyster Cult – A Lifelong Fascination With High Weirdness « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
With its emphasis on personification and topical allusion, allegory has a long association with political discourse.
For veteran IM Banks readers there are a lot of allusions to his Culture novels and their themes, and you will re-encounter Diziet Sma's arguments with Zakalwe about the "morality of intervention vs non-intervention" from Use of Weapons, or GCU's Grey Area' sense of justice and its implacable execution from Excession as well as quite a few other similar tidbits. Archive 2009-09-01
His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings.
If you speak of an acanthopterygian, it is plain that you are not discussing perch in reference to its roasting or boiling merits; and if you make an allusion to monomyarian malacology, it will not naturally be supposed to have reference to the cooking of oyster sauce. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
In some cases, the works were ‘updated’ with allusions to cybersex.
It's startling, difficult and rewarding: sometimes knotty with reference and allusion, sometimes woolly and vague.
Beginning by ridiculing Cunningham's numerous bookish allusions – nothing makes a novel seem more vulnerable, more naked, than an armour-plating of literary references. Review of The Hours author's latest book wins inaugural hatchet job award
Lowell's Psalm 137 allusion, the futility of his song, also has a counterpart in Ginsberg: Tho I am not there for this Prophecy, I am unmarried, I'm hymnless, I'm Heavenless, headless in blisshood I would still adore Yizkor
It is written in a unique and extremely difficult style, making use of puns and portmanteau words (using at least 40 languages besides English), and a very wide range of allusion.
While I have always been aware of hoodoo in the blues, via references to ‘mojos’, ‘black cat bones’ etc., I didn't realize just how many more obscure allusions existed within the genre.
He called to mind the peculiarities of the "tui" of the natives, sometimes called the mockingbird from its incessant chuckle, and sometimes "the parson," in allusion to the white cravat it wears over its black, cassock-like plumage. In Search of the Castaways
'As for amusement, I could kill rats as I used to do; or slaughter a hecatomb of pheasants at Babington,' -- here the old man winced, though the word hecatomb reconciled him a little to the disagreeable allusion. John Caldigate
Katy, who had "browsed" all through her childhood in a good old-fashioned library, had her memory stuffed with all manner of little scraps of information and literary allusions, which now came into use. What Katy Did Next
[813] An allusion to the proverb [Greek: Opse Theôu aleousi myloi, aleousi de lepta]. Plutarch's Morals
The committee made no allusion to the former President in its report.
And nowhere upon the inspired pages of the fourth Evangelist, nor in that great Epistle to the Colossians, which is the very citadel and central fort of that doctrine in Scripture, is there more emphatically stated this truth than here, in these incidental allusions. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
In a video-conference with relatives last week, Dario Segovia, a 48-year-old drill operator, made a not-so-cryptic allusion to troubles: "What happens in the mine, stays in the mine. Chile miners: Rescued foreman Luis Urzúa's first interview
Her poetry is full of obscure literary allusions.
The picture's allusions to great moments in cinema - a horse suspended in its harness, from Vertigo shot of a woman plummeting from a bell-tower; the Michael Caine at the height of what I call his blazer years, when he played a series of men caught up in international intrigue while looking smashing in navy sports coats. GreenCine Daily
Under the seal of confession he had been intrusted with a secret to which in his conversations with me he could make only indirect allusions, to bring me to understand that my pertinacity was a crime, and that the only honourable course was to yield. Mauprat
Your countenance, Miss Lake -- you must pardon my frankness, it is my way -- _your countenance_ tells only too plainly that you now comprehend my allusion. ' Wylder's Hand
(Southerners love to make much of the supposed fact it is always bad weather in the North and always good in the South) ‘Le ciel francais en tatin’ was how the report was tartly (forgive the pun!) headed-an allusion to a famous French dessert, the Tarte Tatin, which is an upside-down apple tart (and utterly delicious, I might add!). Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A love of words
In other words, many of the patterns covered have that Western 'bulkiness' which stems from use in waters that tend to be 'heavier' while still retaining a certain 'delicacy' consistent with older, traditional styling combined with a certain allusion to realism. Epinions Recent Content for Home
Some did so out of a desire for an unabbreviated expression of their African heritage that could not be mistaken or derided as an allusion to the afro hairstyle. Logan Nakyanzi Pollard: Black's Fine, Thanks: Writer Deborah Dickerson Pulls the Obama Race Card
With sense 2 cf. French morion punishment inflicted on soldiers (1605), so called in allusion to the hat suspended at the end of the shaft of the halberd which held the soldier while the punishment was inflicted. Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
This word means fiery ones, in allusion, as is supposed, to their burning love.
Long prayers follow, with allusions to St. Stephen and the diaconate; the bishop vests the new deacon, giving him an orarion and a ripidion. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
The distant modulation evokes the pastoral and, being thus an allusion, pleases those who recognise it.
Motto: “Or et fer” (no allusion to Ophir or auriferous). Modeste Mignon
In _Cur. _ 462 ff. the _choragus_ interpolates a recital composed of topical allusions to the manners of different neighborhoods of Rome. The Dramatic Values in Plautus
Sayanora, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking may not be as relentlessly intertextual as Ulysses, but this Japanese import is nearly as rich in puns, social commentary, pop-culture parody, and allusions to TV shows, novels, movies, and manga. 04 « March « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
Among them were 65 allusions to brand-name alcohols, cigarettes or prescription drugs. Branding For Beginners
The play abounds in biblical and religious allusions, typical of Romantic works, and also prevalent in the comedia lacrimosa.
Neither the handiwork nor the Classical allusions are readily apparent in her new paintings.
Full of allusions and caricatural aspects, the piece is difficult and challenging, but its rich and luscious orchestration more than makes up for its complexities.
Another source of spurious profundity is DeLillo's constant allusions to momentous feelings and portents — allusions that are either left hanging in the air or are conveniently cut short by a narrative pretext. A Reader's Manifesto
The sprawling story of how extraplanetary imperialists impose a mission civilisatrice on the dune-dwelling, sandworm-herding "savages" of an almost waterless world is rich in historic, anthropological and archaeological allusions. Any Drop to Drink?
Some may think that Jesus' allusion to picking up our cross daily is an anachronism since he had not yet been crucified, but the cross was already well-known to the Jews as a hated Roman instrument of execution.
It was a cruel _snouch_ in the Painter, a fine Girl having paid him seventy-five guineas for an hour's work, and being unable to pay for the other half of her portrait, to exhibit her with such a sarcastic allusion to her private life -- to call her Thais -- to put a torch in her hand, and direct her to set flames to the temple of Chastity. Highways and Byways in Surrey
He probably intended it as an exact classical allusion.
The simple ironic reading is based on the assumption that the high Shakespearian allusions are really inapposite.
Osirian cycle were born during the epagomenal day (cf.p. 247 of this History), and the allusions to the Osirian legend which are met with in the Pyramid texts, prove that the days were added long before the time when those inscriptions were cut. History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
Peruvians had mobilized from across the country for the latest protest, dubbed the March of the Four Suyos - an allusion to the four corners of the ancient Incan empire.
This disrespectful allusion to his calling ruffled the temper of the hospital attendant, and, growing profane, he insisted that he was as good as _Smith_, and better, and at once challenged "the bloviating mule scrubber to get down off his perch and stand up before him like a man. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
The word signifies such a worm as was used in dyeing scarlet or purple, whence some make it an allusion to his bloody sufferings. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Quarterly" and elsewhere have been noted; impressions of his manner and appearance at different periods of his life have been recovered from coaeval acquaintances; his friend Hayward's Letters, the numerous allusions in Lord Houghton's Life, Mrs. Crosse's lively chapters in "Red Letter Days of my Life," Lady Gregory's interesting recollections of the Athenaeum Club in Blackwood of Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake
If you speak of an acanthopterygian, it is plain that you are not discussing perch in reference to its roasting or boiling merits; and if you make an allusion to monomyarian malacology, it will not naturally be supposed to have reference to the cooking of oyster sauce. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
Besides allusions in the inscriptions to the various ecclesiastical ranks of bishop, priest, deacon, lector, and excavator (fossor), there are references to physicians, bakers, smiths, and joiners, often with emblems of the respective instruments. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
Her poetry is full of obscure literary allusion.
With allusions to the heavenly clutter of planets and stars, the artist gives his canvases a feeling of boundlessness.
One pleasure in the rereading of Marx is to savor the trenchancy and aptness of his literary allusions. The Revenge of Karl Marx
Do people not see Jackson's teasing yet reverential allusion to the reknowned 15th-century "Salting Madonna" by Robert Campin, the Master of Flemalle? posted by Eric 4: 07 PM | IsThatLegal?
There's only one allusion to it I can think of, in some obscure Renaissance manuscript on the practice of medicine. NIGHT SISTERS
Fifteen years are supposed to elapse before the curtain is again rolled up; and that this allusion may be rendered the more perfect, the audience is kept waiting about three times fifteen minutes, to amuse one another during the _entr'acte_. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841
The allusion is to that of a childlike state, in which faith is absolute and without contradiction. The Paradox Of Adam And Eve « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
His portraits already included classical allusions which gained him many patrons among the grand tourist gentry.
Full of allusions and caricatural aspects, the piece is challenging, but its rich and luscious orchestration more than makes up for its complexities.
If readers at times have difficulty in making sense, so did I: if they can decipher certain allusions, bravo!
Steinbeck's fiction as a whole, we can find Biblical symbolism and allusions common.
And there's what I'll call (in allusion to James Thomson's "Seasons") a "long ellipsis": three periods with spaces in between them to indicate when a sentence or more has been removed. Archive 2008-05-01
The allusions to a few recent works of sympathetic labor history in this piece are a genuine consolation.
All allusions, therefore, recalling his mortifying defeat were disagreeable to him. Frank's Campaign, or, Farm and Camp
This is an absorbing and often intense novel, which can be appreciated both by those with little knowledge of James, and by James experts who should relish the allusions to his fiction.
Variete de Variete is more decorated, filled with allusions to recognizable dance forms - a tango, an apache dance - with even the hint of a specific milieu.
Preconceived idea again uppermost, he took literally many of her sallies and allusions to her husband, which were purposely Brobdignagian in their dimensions. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
III. ii.89 (83,6) [Go -- to kennel, Pompey -- go] It should be remembered, that Pompey is the common name of a dog, to which allusion is made in the mention of a _kennel_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
The scientific name comes from the Latin 'auricula'-external ear of animals and' forma 'form, figure or shape', in allusion to the shape of the pod. Chapter 41
She was made uncomfortable by his veiled allusion to the previous night.
Allusion to the trio, as in some of Beethoven's symphonic scherzos, briefly turns up in the coda.
In his poetry we find many allusions to the human body.
His rough-hewn marble sculptures combine a deep feeling for the inherent beauty of the material with a penchant for subtle allusion.
This was an allusion to the most infamous murder committed by the two anti-heroines of the book as they are on the run through France.
Eliot's poetry is full of biblical allusions.
There are, too, a few allusions to the tackiest hits of acid house. Times, Sunday Times
The word choice and syntax are mine, the allusions part of my mental framework.
Allusion is here made to the rite of exsufflation which formed a part of the early baptismal service.
Mr. Blyth, who speculated on the origin of the name, in one of his able articles on the felines of India in the _India Sporting Review_ of April 1856, makes no allusion to the above nor to the probable confusion that may have arisen in the middle ages over the spotted Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
In any case it is a kind of prompter of the poetic allusions that occupied the boys 'hours at school. Vergil
He makes allusions to poetry, classical music and protest culture.
Stuffed with obscure allusions and historical minutia, his novels are not the type you take to the beach.
That sense goes back to Cockney rhyming slang, “to frisk a cly,” the allusion to which escapes me. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
After that Colin pointedly abstained from allusion to the Ideal Wife and to Joan Gildea's Typewriting-Correspondent, as he had called her. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
The infancy stories in Matthew contain quotations and more indirect allusions to the Moses birth story.
The Commedia's last allusion to Virgil occurs as late as the final canto, when the poet marks the dissolution of his own powers in the face of God's reality.
However well-intentioned that allusion might have been, it undercut the work's subtle emotional power.
Allusion to the trio, as in some of Beethoven's symphonic scherzos, briefly turns up in the coda.
The play abounds in biblical and religious allusions, typical of Romantic works, and also prevalent in the comedia lacrimosa.
Twentieth-century attitudes and sensibilities as well as contemporary slang pervade the lyrics, and ironic allusions to modern life are scattered throughout the political depiction of the events. BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
Well, many politicians and others use historical allusions, and they almost always are inapt because no two situations are the same.
Of the ornamental ducks the best known species is that with red wattles on its head and neck, which is generally called the Muscovy duck, but which is not, as its name imports, a native of Muscovy; for the name is a corruption of moschata or musk duck, in allusion to the peculiar smell of the creature. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
In the second part, I allow my fancy to play lightly with the suggestions this name arouses in me, and I make allusion very felicitously to the famous statue of the Wingless Victory, which the The God of Love
And for whom ‘there is no such thing as an author’, because ‘Every text is a product of intertextuality, a tissue of allusions to and citations of other texts’.
Manton knew well, when he made this allusion to mischief formerly done to the crew of the Foam, that he touched a rankling sore in the breast of Scraggs, who in a skirmish with the natives some time before had lost an eye; and the idea of revenging himself on the defenseless women and children of his enemies was so congenial to the mind of the second mate, that his objections to act willingly under Manton's orders were at once removed. Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific
But a television presenter declared -- half-joking, half-serious -- that "there will be no 'honey nor caramels' at the event this weekend... because they're bad for your teeth," in a clear reference to the likelihood of presenting the controversial rhythm with its direct sexual allusions. Yoani Sanchez: Cuba's Communist Party Worries About Our Tastes in Music
It begins in the middle of an epistolary lament from the father of the bride and ends with a subtle allusion to a ceremony whose express purpose is to make Byzantine imperial presence more real.
As a transparent allusion to the impresa of the Montefeltro ostrich, the egg emphasizes this conflation. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
In allusion to resultant milling of circumference distributing and circumgyratetion axes multi-angles surface, design and application for drum of curve knife-Edge milling Jig was good for imitating.
It provides a basis of fuller understanding of allusion, implication and inference.
If culture thrives under them — a very doubtful position — it is not because voters wish to understand the historical allusions of candidates, but because the general stir and life of public activity tends to commove the whole system. Voltaire
It seems to me that your observations about the need to use imagery, metaphor and allusion correctly are well taken.
But how can I explain these allusions or how can I translate these couplets without explanation?
With allusions to the heavenly clutter of planets and stars, Fukui gives his canvases a feeling of boundlessness.
She was made uncomfortable by his veiled allusion to the previous night.
One could spend hours untangling the skeins of etymologies and historical allusions Kinsella has woven together in these poems.
The stanza is written like the formulaic examples of wit and allusion in old-fashioned riddle books.
Such clever allusions in the original title must have been deemed too esoteric for potential buyers.
She was made uncomfortable by his veiled allusion to the previous night.
The production is propelled by the spirit of parody and irony, self-referential allusion, iconoclasm, the postmodernist and post-dramatic. The Times Literary Supplement
Why is much contemporary Western tonal music so droneful, so full of ancient quotations or allusions?
III. iii.276 (443,9) forked plague] In allusion to a _barbed_ or _forked_ arrow, which, once infixed, cannot be extracted. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
There's nothing wrong with allusion, or indeed, literary theft.
a pointed allusion to what was going on
Likewise the metaphors used in descriptive passages; and the extra-story allusions; and the very vocabulary. Mrissa: Structure: against Euclid
There were self-deprecatory references to losing his parliamentary seat after 13 years, allusions to the Cheeky Girls and corruption in parliament, a duff anecdote about his name – almost an anagram of "I like to be MP", he told us – and a small section about the Daily Mail, which had quoted the event's promoter, Robert Meakin, on the likelihood of Opik being bottled off the stage. Lembit Opik
Digital arithmetic of Hilbert transform is given in allusion to DRFM adopting single channel sampling.
But we trust while no blame is cast on the heroes of the day, there will be no allusion to any attempt to estimate the comparative services of that day in the spirit of a dispute which has lately arisen about it.
Her poetry is full of obscure literary allusion.
The two other colleges of Lupercales to which allusion is made were known as the Quintilian and the Fabian.] [Footnote 111: Compare Suetonius (Life of Caesar), chapter 52.] [Footnote 112: It is here, with this word, that one of the two most important manuscripts of Dio (the codex Venetus or Marcianus 395) begins.] [Footnote 113: Most editors have gotten over the difficulty of this Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
Allusion is to the custom of chewing betel leaves with catechu on such occasions of which the juice reddens the lips.
Illusions and allusions to concepts of truth and impartiality, far from indivisible concepts, have always figured prominently in British political propaganda.
Landor" isn't an allusion to the poet--he owns a cottage. The Pale Blue Eye
Jerome and other Fathers called the communion bread -- _little body_, and the communion table -- _mystical table_; the latter, in allusion to the heathen and early Christian mysteries, and the former, in reference to the children sacrificed at the Agapae. The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History
Everyday language uses a number of euphemisms, including polite formulas, circumlocutions, allusions, and stock phrases.
I tell you that because I´ve discovered birdman last week and I wonder if you use 'birdman' in your book for that reason and if hellion have similar allusions. More Lost in Translation
Chantilly, which appeared in yesterday's 'Musee,' the satirist, making some disgraceful allusions to the cobbler's change of name upon assuming the buskin, quoted a Latin line about which we have often conversed. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Well, do you think an invasion of a country should be based on allusion and assertion?
Parents will note with interest the satirical penny "pinchers" consistently getting the better of credit card, the allusions to Spinal Tap, and simply the shamelessness of the fart humour. Undefined
A little literary allusion, for another.
orated," invariably using a conversational tone; many of his points were driven home by humorous allusions or anecdotes rather than by didactic logic. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.
I'm making the really clear case that I know the difference between evidence and what is allusion and assertion and the rest.
The role of the analyst is to hear the voice of the unconscious, which makes itself audible through the censorship of consciousness in riddles, allusions, elisions, and omissions.
The distinctive area of the single television play has produced a surprising number of allusions to homosexuality.
It's an impressive, haunting work full of menace and obvious political allusion.
Indaba-zimbi drew his mark in the shape of a little star, in humorous allusion to Stella's native name. Allan's Wife
The constant punning and allusions through sampling naturally makes them literate in the most unpretentious manner I have heard and seen out of a group so avant-garde.
This is a new collection which gives background information for over 20,000 phrases and allusions in English.
The allusion to smoke and the smell of cordite after a massive explosion feels clear.
Mock droned on about how the Collins poem has an allusion to someone named Petrarch and how the poem plays on sonnet love conventions. Learning About Sonnets
Its intention, however, was, this time, merely to shew me the way, which was not the way of the sonata, for this was an unpublished work of Vinteuil in which he had merely amused himself, by an allusion which was explained at this point by a sentence in the programme which one ought to have been reading simultaneously, in making the little phrase reappear for a moment. The Captive
The committee made no allusion to the former President in its report.
Your false allusions to union-driven puppetry only serve to strengthen my resolve.
Oddly enough, there is no description or even allusion to these naoi, or house shrines, in the Hebrew Bible. Archive 2008-02-01
Subsequent Christian retellings of the story of Jesus's Passion repeat this pattern of indirect allusion and variation.
Shades of Mahler and Shostakovich flit through the texture in which dissonances set against a tonally referential idiom and allusions to earlier styles are set within absolute musical structures.
Like the cabalistic use of hints and allusions, it achieves results seemingly out of proportion to the measures employed.
It might exercise an able enigmatist to explain their allusions; for we must understand by "The Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
The writer's imagination tries to overcompensate for his creative block by riding roughshod over any possible allusion to reality in his domestic environment.
In this final section, I would like to explore Woolf's early revisions to received novelistic forms, particularly her allusions to romance and her use of fantasy.
The preacher can make good use of this material, but by making broad allusions to many stories rather than by exposition of a single pericope.
The regional intonations, like the period slang and cant and contemporary allusions of the time, are brilliantly captured.
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE: Nearly every profile of Redstone seems required to make a King Lear allusion, with the mogul frequently described as ailing and impulsive. Sumner Redstone: Vanity Fair
Next he contends that Iroquois orality and phonetic writing stand in equal relation; he supports this claim through his metacommentary on translation and literacy and through his allusions to the Bible.
Wallace has done his editing carefully, verifying the texts, dating the documents, explaining allusions, and seeking (often unsuccessfully) the sources of unattributed quotations.
One way or another, the party to which Tom belonged all got packed and paid, and sallied out to the gates, the cornopean playing frantically "Drops of Brandy," in allusion, probably, to the slight potations in which the musician and postboys had been already indulging. Tom Brown's Schooldays
There are allusions to Persia in Shakespeare cited here (the shah was the playwright's contemporary), and most notably there is a pair of small portraits of Robert Sherley and his Circassian wife, Teresia; Sherley, a British adventurer sent to Persia by Elizabeth I, ended up representing the shah on various foreign missions. Contemporaries a World Apart
Such Biblical allusion was in stark contrast to the welter of less printable comments being bellowed by the faithful.

How To Use Allusion In A Sentence

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