- language. In
discussing the
richly allusive poetry of Virgil's Georgics, R. F.
Thomas distinguished six
categories of
allusive reference,
which are applicable...
- The
Allusions were an
Australian rock group,
which formed in late 1965. They
released a self-titled
studio album in
January 1967 via EMI/Parlophone. Their...
- Tories, and the
character referred to as
Flimnap is
often interpreted as an
allusion to Sir
Robert Walpole, a
British statesman and Whig
politician who Swift...
-
wrote of "the
elegant fluency of a
practised Lothario".
Because of the
allusive use the name
sometimes is not capitalised.
Giacomo Casanova Don Juan Lotario...
-
outline general moral lessons. The
style of the
Quran has been
called "
allusive", with
commentaries needed to
explain what is
being referred to—"events...
-
Glory is a 1940
novel by
British author Graham Greene. The
title is an
allusion to the
doxology often recited at the end of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine...
-
unclear and can
cause confusion. It is
possible that
foobar is a
playful allusion to the
World War II-era
military slang FUBAR (****ed up
beyond all recognition)...
-
shelves for
holding china, ornaments, trifles, or "what nots",
hence the
allusive name. In its
English form, it is a
convenient piece of
drawing room furniture...
- Neo took the red pill in The Matrix." The 2023 film
Barbie contains an
allusion to the dilemma. In one scene,
Barbie is
given the
choice between continuing...
- 1973 with EMI
staff engineer Alan
Parsons at
Abbey Road. The
title is an
allusion to
lunacy rather than astronomy. The band had
composed and
refined the...
