How To Use Allusiveness In A Sentence
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There are kinds of subtlety and metaphorical allusiveness that are easier to achieve in comics than in novels.
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Paglia (correctly) emphasizes the way in which English is constantly changing -- which makes it an ever-renewable source of new kinds of writing -- but she ought to consider this when elevating the Romantic poets '"living speech" over "dense allusiveness and preciosity.
Poetry
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Here, the estranging inexplicability of the actual is most viscerally approached, not through any feeble attempt at representation, but through the bizarre allusiveness of the fictive.
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I direct students to the rich allusiveness of his work, his careful craftsmanship, and his often hidden meanings.
Interview With Professor Jeanne Campbell Reesman
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She uses non-realistic devices from fairy tale and a playful allusiveness to other texts in both dialogue and third-person narration.
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Great Regulars: In my experience, pastiche, hyper-allusiveness and associative logic contribute just as much to the texture of everyday communication as they do to making up postmodern literature and "Simpsons" episodes and Mitsubishi commercials.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Any poetry removed from popular diction will inevitably become as esoteric as 18th-century satire (perfected by Alexander Pope), whose dense allusiveness and preciosity drove the early Romantic poets into the countryside to find living speech again.
Poetry
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The allusiveness requires us to attend to the internal structure of the text, and at the same time asks us to step outside it, to other texts.
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If you can stand the obliqueness, the allusiveness and the tension-inducing pace, you are in for an experience that is disturbing, revelatory and poetic.
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The heavy-handed allusiveness may just be an aesthetic mistake, a secondary flaw we have to countenance while otherwise acknowledging the narrative power of the novel as a whole.
Translated Texts
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What tends to happen instead is the kind of coy allusiveness coupled with total transparency of motive you meet, for example, in The Black Star, where our heroes most improbably find a light aircraft in which to escape the overrun city:
A Great Disturbance in the Plot « Gerry Canavan
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There is something about the style of these thinkers, its gaps, its allusiveness, its suggestiveness, and so on that makes it highly fit for cultural circulation.
Archive 2009-07-01
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If you're going to take on an author as indirect and allusive as James, then it might be good to try for indirection and allusiveness.
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Any poetry removed from popular diction will inevitably become as esoteric as 18th-century satire (perfected by Alexander Pope), whose dense allusiveness and preciosity drove the early Romantic poets into the countryside to find living speech again.
Poetry
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Paglia (correctly) emphasizes the way in which English is constantly changing -- which makes it an ever-renewable source of new kinds of writing -- but she ought to consider this when elevating the Romantic poets '"living speech" over "dense allusiveness and preciosity.
Poetry
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What tends to happen instead is the kind of coy allusiveness coupled with total transparency of motive you meet, for example, in The Black Star, where our heroes most improbably find a light aircraft in which to escape the overrun city:
A Great Disturbance in the Plot « Gerry Canavan
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Another, less-remarked problem, is that the extraordinary allusiveness of his prose is the product of a kind of education which no longer exists.