| 单词 | allusive |
| 例句 | The story told by myxotricha is as deep as any myth, as profoundly allusive. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Emphasizing the personal, Goldstein neglects the allusive, mythological and abstract dimensions of the works. 1922: The Year That Transformed English Literature 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Mirza also deploys allusive juxtapositions to suggest that there are additional forces of order at work that are subtle, and perhaps not fully of this world. An Artwork for an Age of Anxiety and Ayahuasca 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Walcott’s densely allusive poetry has always shown, as well as an attachment to his home in the Caribbean, a love for the mores and meters of the Classics—and a deeply visual approach. A Trinidadian Friendship: Derek Walcott and Peter Doig 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z As a style aestheticism was elaborate, allusive, extravagantly literary, infused with a love of the medieval, going overboard for the exotic and outlandish. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z While the military subject matter differs markedly from that of the fêtes galantes, there’s an allusive, bittersweet poetry about these early works that looks forward to the later scenes of pastoral dalliance. Watteau’s Peacefully Bittersweet War Scenes 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z “The Waste Land”, a difficult and richly allusive work that first came out in 1922, had been hailed as one of the finest poems of his generation. Time present and time past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z His sentences are long, allusive and sometimes deliberately flat. Opposites Attract: Paul Auster Meets Stephen Crane 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z A poem is the opposite, it’s something allusive or complex that’s being communicated, or attempted to be communicated, in the simplest way possible, which sometimes isn’t that simple. Matthew Zapruder explains how you learned poetry wrong (but that's easy to fix) 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z He explored the allusive structures and elusive ambiances noted by Messiaen, with the technical intricacies of the multilayered “For Octaves” and the cascading runs of “For Eight Fingers” revealed with crystalline articulation. Music Review: Finding Poetry in Schoenberg?s Hurdles 2010-08-29T23:13:00Z It is worth following his progress in his latest exhibition which includes surreal pastiches of portraiture and allusive scenes out of some Bloomsbury era memoir. Nan Goldin, Tony Cragg and Robert Rauschenberg ? the week in art 2011-07-22T12:06:33Z Reached by way of doors concealed from view on the store’s main sales floor, the windows were, at less than four feet, surprisingly shallow for all their weird allusive depths. We Need a Miracle on 34th Street 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z His answer: “Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information.” Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Getaway Car,’ a collection of Donald E. Westlake pieces Nunez’s dry, allusive and charming new novel has the makings of a broad comedy. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z To enter the beguilingly allusive and elusive “Correspondences” is to again be a child holed up under the kitchen table, straining to hear the grown-ups murmur. Newly Released: ‘Communion Town’ by Sam Thompson, and More 2013-12-25T20:57:22Z The term is appropriately open-ended, since the participants devise pieces that are minimalist and mysteriously allusive. Review | In the galleries: Photos capture a fleeting moment, leave an indelible impression 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z It is written in Banville's customary prose, rhythmic and allusive and dense with suggestive imagery, prose that deliberately slows you down and frequently wrongfoots you. Ancient Light by John Banville – review 2012-06-22T21:55:04Z The effect is suggestive and allusive; it’s as if you’ve been transported to a place and time you can’t quite identify. A Far-Ranging Thai Menu That Started With a Slurp 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Irony does not work well on book-spines and her titles are mostly too low-key, too allusive, to seem worth remembering. The other Elizabeth Taylor's Complete Short Stories 2012-07-06T21:55:05Z As Mr. Malick’s films grow increasingly allusive and amorphous, he seems more than ever to find them in the editing. Without Ever Showing Up, Malick Is Talk of Cannes 2011-05-16T20:16:10Z The limb-rearranging double duet sustained a bit of interest, as did some of the hopscotchy barefoot tap dancing, but these were surrounded by weakly parodic or allusive sections and only one decent joke. Dance Review: The Barnard Project at New York Live Arts - Review 2011-12-03T00:27:28Z Even more than his flowing, fragmentary, allusive methods, it’s his transcendental world view that renders him grandly untimely, that makes critics who are smitten with television’s cynical “darkness” repudiate the cathedral-like sublimity of his vision. “Song to Song”: Terrence Malick’s Romantic Idealism 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The trio blends the divide between listener and performer with more quiet power than almost any other band in rock, pulling from across eras and genres without sounding allusive. Yo La Tengo: Indie rock’s standard-bearer is still changing the formula, 30 years in 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The allusive, somewhat inscrutable “Pictures at an Exhibition” project is a kind of activity he continues to explore with the Kremerata. Gidon Kremer: A Violinist on a Mission, or Several of Them 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Washburn renders Genji’s brief, allusive line thus: “I saw a spider spinning away when I got here, but I never believed that spiders could foretell a lover’s visit — until now!” ‘The Tale of Genji’: The work of a brilliant widow 1,000 years ago 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z But none of this enmity is reflected in the poetic and densely allusive text of “Unearthing.” Alan Moore Celebrates a Real Person in ?Unearthing? 2010-07-26T22:10:00Z A sense of intricacy, of allusive layers within layers in the work, is constantly present in Richafort's homage. Richafort: Requiem, etc – review 2012-07-19T20:58:01Z It was an exemplar of this festival’s aesthetic: high-tech, allusive and not to be pinned down. 2010-02-06T05:36:00Z For many years, Zeroville had the reputation of being one of those allegedly “unfilmable” novels, owing to its densely allusive nature and unorthodox structuring and occasional flights of surrealist fancy. Zero stars: is James Franco's starry Zeroville the worst film of 2019? 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z But a closer look reveals how Mr. Wa Lehulere’s art offers allusive, layered references to his own complex personal history and its deep entwining with that of his country, South Africa. Kemang Wa Lehulere Constructs a History From South Africa’s Shadows 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Much of the research for this graceful and allusive biography of one of Britain's most beautiful birds was conducted while he was in German custody. Birds in a Cage: Warburg, Germany, 1941 by Derek Niemann - review 2012-12-20T08:00:01Z Wright’s body of work combines a Southern sensibility with an allusive expansiveness, for moments of singular musicality.” Charles Wright named new U.S. poet laureate 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Shot in the Atacama Desert in Chile, this ending — with its inky pauses and allusive, speeding gray shapes — suffers most from the extreme limitations of home viewing. ‘Cemetery’ Review: Elephant Walk 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The film succeeds, he added, because it is “directed in a patient, easygoing style, without any of the displays of allusive cleverness or formal gimmickry that so often masquerade as important filmmaking these days.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Take Two’ and ‘The Great Food Truck Race’ 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z She gave her daughter the allusive surname Johnstone and brought her up in London and Norfolk. Gwyneth Johnstone obituary 2011-01-06T19:02:23Z At the beginning, I was planning to write something allusive, as in my past works. In rare appearance, Murakami talks about new book 2013-05-06T18:31:05Z A few chords, a clear melody and succinct verse-chorus-bridge structures are filled with darkly allusive lyrics and floated amid gauzy, sweeping guitar effects. New Music: Dum Dum Girls, Peggy Sue and Helen Sung Release Albums 2014-01-27T22:37:10Z Rather, what he found in Jackson Heights is, as the film meticulously, intellectually, allusively, yet ardently shows, a crucial aspect of American experience, a working-out on film of the American democratic ideal. Finding the American Ideal in Queens 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z These kinds of touches are gently allusive, suggesting more of an atmosphere than pretending to some grand interpretation. Review: A ‘Tristan und Isolde’ Plays Out in Shadows and Light 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z DreamWorks, in particular, has made the kind of allusive, parodic cultural self-consciousness that used to be called postmodernism safe for the whole family. Film: In Line at the Movies, Hoping for Good Enough 2010-11-20T19:14:00Z In the past, Costello has allowed his songs to be more loosely allusive, so why the sudden specificity? Elvis Costello 2010-10-16T23:04:00Z Each story in “Paper Lantern” builds around some allusive idea, with Dybek then layering over it again and again. ‘Paper Lantern’ and ‘Ecstatic Cahoots,’ by Stuart Dybek There is also a section called “Connections,” in which staff members present distinctive video essays about their aesthetic passions, with allusive titles like “Magic” or “Dark Energy.” Web Site Review: The Metropolitan Museum?s New Web Site 2011-10-06T22:45:35Z Marías’s novels are cerebral and allusive, long-winded in the best sense. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Again hewing to the darker side, the Dutch animator Jorn Leeuwerink’s deceptively childlike “Flower Found!” creates an allusive pastel nightmare of mistaken identity and mob injustice. ‘The 20th Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Charming, Safe Collection 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z He’s a difficult poet — allusive, riddling, satirical, strange. Paul Muldoon Collects His Poetic, Allusive, Satirical Thoughts 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The emotional idea was sound, and it connected with a broader aesthetic of the building, which avoids the magisterial and transparent in favor of an allusive and mediated form of history. Perspective | The African American Museum a year later: Still the hottest ticket in town 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z She appears to resent “Lolita” for depicting cruelty with charm, allusive style, and psychological acuity—for being beautiful, when its subject matter is not. The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z It shows freed slaves as slovenly, frivolous, and lazy, and it twists history allusively by naming a mixed-race man “Lynch.” The Black Activist Who Fought Against D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z There is much that is allusive and elusive in this show, which as you soon discover, is very much in the nature of Taoism. A Dazzling Look at the World of Taoism 2010-04-09T11:55:00Z There is too little context for what we hear; the allusive layers of text, music and image that are such a feature of his output seem far less rich than usual. Walden – review 2012-06-25T17:20:42Z The documentary’s mystical sensation, after all, springs from choices by the director, Jessica Beshir, particularly the allusive style and monochrome black-and-white photography. ‘Faya Dayi’ Review: A Dream State 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z It slowly occurs to the reader that Hardwick is developing her own sharp vision of a female narrative mode in her work: fragmentary, allusive, shifting in its layers of time, sharp as a Fury’s whip. In Praise of Elizabeth Hardwick 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The tale McClenon allusively recounts is speculative but not entirely abstract, as she demonstrates with the blue-yarn map of Mid-Atlantic waterways. Review | In the galleries: Face to face with a world both beautiful and horrific 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Five years in the making, Ms. Newsom’s new album, “Divers,” offers a heap of her densely layered songs, joining multiple musical traditions and highly allusive lyricism. What to Do This Weekend 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Puccini’s sumptuous music, potently allusive and ideally flowing as if unspooled in an endless thread, is the most obvious and unshakable asset in any account of “Butterfly.” Music Review: ?Madama Butterfly? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-12-08T22:28:07Z The lyrics ponder time, mortality, love, war, nature, cities and the elusive joy of life — often cryptic and allusive, sometimes utterly transparent. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Both the novel and the poem are notoriously challenging, obscurely allusive and highly uneasy about their modern time and the rubble of tradition astride which it stood. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z The allusive character names and the absurdist spectacles of the depicted auditions suggest that the proceedings constitute an elaborate inside joke, which they do. Review: A Godard Film About Making Movies Arrives in New York 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Jonathan Miller’s production of Debussy’s seductive, allusive opera returns, but unfortunately for only five shows. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Captive to Handler’s cleverness, to his allusive play and lack of rigor, the reader tries to make sense of the proceedings, to no avail. A Series of Unfortunate Events 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Whether being allusive, ironic, aphoristic or downright playful, Eliot shows the full power of her intellectual arsenal. Epigraphs: opening possibilities | Toby Lichtig 2010-03-30T12:00:00Z The poems from “Talking Dirty” are chatty, profane and allusive, describing a teeming, seething, exuberantly chaotic world populated by gods, historical figures and animals. Review | Yusef Komunyakaa again brings his distinctive music to the page 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z His style is eloquent, allusive and elusive, and he urges us to read Heidegger's essay on boredom which the philosopher considers "the basis of existence". Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow ? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z They are both allusive and elusive; and absolutely meticulous in their detailing. Mike Nelson to represent Britain at Venice Biennale 2011 2010-03-30T15:16:00Z But Amalric has form when it comes to projects with diffuse plots and allusive meanings. Cannes film festival: Mathieu Amalric 2010-05-17T20:35:00Z She took an allusive approach toward observing her environment, and even when her songs were bluntly political, she painted scenes; she did not shout slogans. On the Hypnotic “Room 25,” Noname Comes of Age 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Baroque imagery, bizarre humour and labyrinthine plots made his elusive and allusive oeuvre unlike anything else in contemporary cinema. Ra?l Ruiz obituary 2011-08-19T14:53:12Z Shakespeare's last play, which turns 400 this coming year, has always been deep and allusive enough to provoke the freest interpretations. Barney, The Tempest and Casino Jack: Warming Up for Oscar 2010-12-31T07:00:00Z What follows is an extraordinary dream sequence, allegorical and allusive, in which the minister is Gabriel. Lois Weber’s Vital Films of the Early Silent Era 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Some scholars have compared “Macunaíma” to James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” another totemic modernist novel from the 1920s whose allusive, wide-ranging play with language is as central to its identity as its plot. New Translations Explore Brazil’s ‘Endless and Unfinished’ Character 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z It was a fitting preface to Luna Pearl Woolf’s “Après Moi, le Déluge,” a strikingly allusive concerto for cello and chorus that movingly reflects on the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Music Review: Julian Wachner’s Trinity Choir at Zankel Hall 2012-06-03T22:24:45Z Some curious listeners might wonder why Boards of Canada inspire such intense adoration; others will find the album's allusive beauty keeps triggering vivid new images and tremors of emotion months from now. Boards of Canada: Tomorrow's Harvest – review 2013-06-06T20:15:01Z But he prizes allusive poetry and musical exploration above politics. | Pop: Putting Poetry Above Politics 2013-08-30T21:33:06Z Her songs remained long, labyrinthine and allusive, but they also had moments of plainspoken intimacy. The Week Ahead: NOV. 21 ? 27 2010-11-20T19:34:00Z Compared with previous works, “Echo 3” is more allusive about regional tensions, shifting much of the intrigue to the complex interpersonal dynamics and shared histories of its protagonists. With ‘Echo 3,’ Mark Boal Stays in His Comfort Zone: Danger Abroad 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z These details are prelude to announcing that the unnamed heroine of Nunez’s dry, allusive and charming new novel, “The Friend,” is a writer and a cat person. Mourning With the Help of a Great Dane 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Strangely, “The Black Cat” is an allusive masterwork of political cinema. My Favorite Halloween Movie 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The exhibition’s argument is difficult and sometimes too allusively made, but the impact is considerable. Exhibition Review | Yale Center for British Art: It Took Tools to Build a Revolution 2010-02-26T23:50:00Z It’s also far more calculated than “Volume One,” which hinted at vintage pop and country music with a fondly allusive air. Critics' Choice: Alan Jackson?s ?Freight Train? Erykah Badu?s ?Return of the Ankh? She and Him?s ?Volume Two? 2010-03-29T04:58:00Z Picasso famously started working faster and faster, painting in a kind of allusive shorthand, his brushwork more sketch-like and gestural as he rushed against the clock. Does “Late Style” Exist? 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z It was music that couldn't easily be defined or pinned down, elusive and allusive, much like Plant himself. Robert Plant in ghost dance with roots 2011-04-11T00:28:26Z The writer developed a distinctive theatrical argot — an earthy, allusive, profuse expression that flows in banter, pensive monologues, storytelling sessions. Seattle Rep builds 25th-anniversary run of Wilson's 'Fences' with Tim Bond 2010-03-24T23:18:00Z Principal bass Jordan Anderson offered “Traction,” a subtle and allusive piece, mysterious in manner and highly effective in its quiet and understated virtuosity. New symphony series is [untitled], but not unwelcome 2013-04-27T17:40:33Z “Observations” begins with short addresses to animals—“To an Intramural Rat,” “To a Chameleon”—and builds to complex, allusive meditations on art and the natural world, such as “A Grave” and “Marriage.” The Marianne Moore Revival 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z All of his best work is allusive, steeped in research and context, materially creative, humane. An Ice Factory From the 1900s Is Now a Spectacular New Bronx School 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z In Stoker, thematically a cousin or nephew to , Park switches his method from romantically demonstrative to allusive and elusive. Stoker: Gloom with a View 2013-03-01T04:30:31Z How beautiful, indeed, for the lovers in the opera’s title, as well as for lovers of Debussy’s score: murky, wispy and allusive, yet somehow also touching, penetrating and direct. Review: Debussy’s ‘Pelléas,’ but This Time All Boxed In 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps best known for “Fates and Furies,” her vivisection of a marriage, Groff is a heavily allusive writer whose narratives typically carry a freight of sophisticated references. In Lauren Groff’s New Novel, Nothing — and Everything — Is Sacred 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z The result was a richly allusive way of painting which flourished after he settled in Rome and immersed himself in the history of the Eternal City. Cy Twombly's late works alongside Turner and Monet – the week in art 2012-06-15T11:47:02Z He cultivated a style that was often called difficult and allusive, as he borrowed phrases from ancient and modern languages to write poems that seemed to be hewn from stone. Geoffrey Hill, often hailed as Britain’s greatest poet, dies at 84 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Murakami is far too playful and allusive an artist to be restricted by a banal criterion like that one. Books of The Times: ?1Q84? by Haruki Murakami - Review 2011-11-09T19:28:08Z They all belong to the world outside “Tár” — our world — and their presence inside the movie is more than merely allusive. One Indelible Scene: the Master Class in Ambiguity in ‘Tár’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z The protagonist is a judge, retired from Brooklyn Supreme Court, whose allusive, wandering mind we’re invited inside. Review: Colum McCann’s ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking,’ Stories Linked by Unease 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z I’d give up many of my possessions to keep that tortoise, the few exceptions being things that have their own allusive power, like my wedding ring. J.K. Rowling on the Magic of ‘Things’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z On my reading, this is one of the best titles of the year: witty, allusive and inviting in just five words. Fiction in a flash 2012-10-08T15:17:42Z A willingness to abandon certainty in the theater and to embrace mystery and paradox, earthy British slang and allusive poetry, are also essential. 'No Man's Land' at ACT: Pinter without a map 2012-08-23T17:55:05Z Between you, you have come up with one very blunt one and one that is both elusive and allusive. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z I had wondered ahead of time if Ms. Leonard’s austere, allusive, intensely personal work would be able to cast its spell in the Whitney’s wide-open reaches. The Best Art of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Many great symbolic masterworks arose as a result of the Code—such directors as Howard Hawks, Ernst Lubitsch, and Berkeley himself managed to express the inexpressible with allusive and ironic ingenuity. Busby Berkeley’s Personalized Beauty 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z It is comic and allusive, this outsize rebus: the pencil as well as the sharpener. Thomas Scheibitz – review 2013-07-26T15:00:00Z But individually and in aggregate, all four drinks speak to how cleverly allusive cocktails can be and illustrate the kind of thought processes that go into their making. The Tipsy Diaries: A Toast to the Nominees, With Drinks They Inspired 2011-02-24T15:56:45Z And the show’s very slipperiness turns against itself: Being hard to pinpoint can be allusively mysterious, or it can come across like obfuscation. Review: In ‘California,’ a Road Trip and a Detour Into Darkness 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Her novels and stories are discussed in a nuttily allusive manner, with the title of the work in question often being the last thing supplied. Ir?ne N?mirovsky: the life of and new work by the author of 'Suite Fran?aise' 2010-05-05T22:07:00Z One is the public history of Argentina, which is full of omissions and silences that are dealt with in an allusive, glancing way. Martín Kohan's powerful prose is both public and intensely personal 2013-03-19T14:23:49Z Although the plays are grandly declamatory and, at times, abstracted and allusive, the script for “Losing Ground” is terse and compact; it’s a tale that doesn’t call attention to the telling. Kathleen Collins’s “Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary” Contains an Extraordinary Unmade Movie 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Apart from its comedic delights, this playfully allusive novel, with its echoes of Joyce and Homer, offers eloquent meditations on family and the fracturing of identity. Reviews: New Books From Steven Millhauser, Per Petterson and More 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Some cleave close to memories of the day itself, others are more allusive; the only stipulation was that each had to be set some time during the last decade. Rupert Goold's Decade: can 9/11 work on the stage? 2011-08-24T20:31:01Z Its first readers praised the poem in varying, even opposing ways—where one heard Anglo-Saxon grit, another heard refreshingly plain speech; where one found heartfelt expression, another found allusive mastery. The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Known for his allusive abstract works that fuse organic and geometric forms, Mr. Puryear will employ rough-hewed versions of his signature materials that nod to urban life. Mapplethorpe Print at Center of Culture Wars Returns to Public Eye 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Sewn together from pieces of canvas, batting, tarp and other pliable materials, with acrylic applied in places, they’re big and roughly geometric, purposefully imperfect and allusively abstract. New York Art Galleries: The Virtual Experience 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z The original novel is still visible, but now there's a mad, allusive tale of life on top of it, filled with gnomic, haiku-like texts and paintings. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z Similarly, their script, with its loose and allusive dramatic construction, conveys the theme without realizing it fully. “Pitch Perfect 2,” and Two Other Movies About Money 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Much like that book, “Hard Like Water” is dizzyingly allusive. Cheat on Your Partner or Change the World: In This Novel, It’s All the Same 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z He’s grown more transparent as a narrator, still brilliant and endlessly allusive, but less nervous about mugging for attention. With ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen tackles the Web, mothers, the truth 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z The existence of a debut as confident and allusive as “Columbus” is almost as improbable as the existence of Columbus, Ind., where the movie is set. Review: Modernism’s Promise and an Auspicious Feature Debut in ‘Columbus’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z She has pursued the central mystery tangentially and allusively in a clever, skilfully woven, teasing and compelling story "inspired by Lewis Carroll and Alice". After Such Kindness by Gaynor Arnold – review 2012-08-10T21:55:02Z The Second Violin Concerto is in four movements, each with an allusive title, another evocative common trait in Williams’ concert pieces. Review: John Williams, at 90 and with a new violin concerto, is celebrated at L.A. Phil gala 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z West’s dotting of allusive “Wizard of Oz” touches becomes memorably twisted when Pearl’s playful dance with a cornfield scarecrow suddenly turns hot and bothered. Review: Mia Goth is enjoyably demented as 'Pearl' in half-mad/half-funny 'X' prequel 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z In poetry, Seuss won for her National Book Critics Circle Award-winning “frank: sonnets,” an “allusive, haunting, kaleidoscopic, and life-encompassing” collection according to the judges’ panel. Rep. Adam Schiff, Véronique Tadjo and Paul Auster among winners of the L.A. Times Book Prizes 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z The former president claimed a double standard about media outrage, referring allusively to the two … having an online history. Trump threatens to divulge ‘the real facts’ about ‘wacko’ Bette Midler 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z And often, this awe shines through in charming, allusive, whimsical sentences. Book review: Demystifying the idea of consciousness 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Other strange and wondrous things occur in this richly allusive, poetic tapestry, which is not always easy to untangle, but it’s worth trying. Review | ‘The Green Knight’ casts a magical spell, full of pleasures and perplexities 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Both poets used enigmatic, allusive imagery and are considered part of the Symbolist movement, influencing artists from Debussy to Picasso to Bob Dylan. Poets and Lovers: Do Rimbaud and Verlaine Belong in France’s Panthéon? 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Variety calls the film a “haunting and allusive exploration of the cultural impact of the country’s most spectacular geological feature: its snowcapped mountain spine.” New movies to stream this week: ‘Deerskin,’ ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ and more 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Over the decades of his obsession, there emerge connections and conjectures, “ad hoc causalities” and “small allusive folklores” — an “entire complex of representation” Review: César Aria, a novelist of obsession worth obsessing over 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z The centerpiece of “I Was at Home, But …,” Angela Schanelec’s beautifully elusive and allusive new movie, is an argument between a woman and a man on a sidewalk. Review: 'I Was at Home, But ...’ is a brilliant, elliptical German drama about family and loss 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z These bits of information pepper Offill’s conversation as they do the book, connecting ideas and hinting at the research underpinning its allusive style. Jenny Offill: ‘I no longer felt like it wasn’t my fight’ 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z He constructed songs so that each one is a drama in itself, with an allusive, erudite verse leading to a simpler storytelling refrain. The Pleasure and Pain of Being Cole Porter 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Lowell had always been something of a magpie, an allusive poet keen on incorporating the voices of literary predecessors and contemporaries as well as the utterances of family and friends. Marriage, Betrayal, and the Letters Behind “The Dolphin” 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z But nothing in this richly allusive play is exactly as it seems at first glance. A Play About the Nuances of Conservatism in the Trump Era 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Then there’s the fact that Pepper’s eclectic, allusively titled body of work tells a complicated story, one that imprecisely adhered to the rigid tenets of Minimalism, with its anti-referent stance and self-justifying manifestoes. Woman of Steel 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z His final work, the typically allusive life story of one man, charts the Jewish disapora and lost 20th century with heartbreaking power. The 100 best books of the 21st century 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Eboi’s recent album included a glossary of lyrics for Swedes who might not understand his allusive mix of slang and dialects. In Sweden, ASAP Rocky, and a country's identity, stand trial 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Once the reader accepts this more expansive and sombre definition of the aphorism, much of interest follows, written in that dense, allusive, and largely non-aphoristic style which is called good writing in academia. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z “The Waste Land,” Eliot’s allusive masterpiece about spiritual aridity, initially sprang to mind. ‘Prufrock’ puts a new dance spin on T.S. Eliot 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Of all the #MeToo stories this year, my favorite was the one that barely showed, peeking from the corners of “High Maintenance,” on HBO, the dreamy, allusive pot-dealer series set in Brooklyn. TV’s Reckoning with #MeToo 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z The result is a densely allusive, mind-bending novel of ideas that plays to our acute sense of foreboding about where technology is leading us. Ian McEwan spins a sci-fi love triangle with a man, a woman and an android 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z One way that Cuarón avoids solipsism is to keep his own most consequential experiences to the story’s margins — his parents’ split is portrayed obliquely, through allusive moments and eavesdropped conversations. Review | No, the movie ‘Roma’ isn’t as good as you’ve heard. It’s even better. 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z In place of the raw archaic potency of Homer’s epics, which seems to dissolve the millennia between his heroes and us, Virgil’s densely allusive poem offers an elaborately self-conscious “literary” suavity. Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z His sentences puzzle out their purposes in allusive phrases that hold the attention briefly before the next phrase takes to the floor. How to write the perfect sentence 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z “You can be much more opaque and allusive on the page,” Waters agrees. Sarah Waters: ‘Some of my readers really did hate me. They felt let down’ 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z It is written in precise, refined, allusive prose. ‘Submergence’: Once lovers part, romantic thriller sinks 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The action ratchets up considerably in the final 45 minutes, when the monsters that Krasinski has wisely framed in brief, allusive blurs of movement come into more frightening focus. Review | ‘A Quiet Place’ stars Emily Blunt in an ingeniously inventive horror-thriller 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z This allusive complexity would have flattered the sophistication of the original audience, but today it can leave everyone except specialists flipping to the endnotes. Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z But mainly, she liked to remain mysteriously allusive. Cue the mermaids, it's Esa-Pekka Salonen's 'Wing on Wing' 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z The group was a favorite across Canada for its mix of hard-swinging rock and Downie’s allusive lyrics that remained focused on Canadian identity and issues even as the band saw international success. Gord Downie, singer for Canadian rock band the Tragically Hip, dies at 53 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The book unfolds – and succeeds – as a deftly choreographed dance of words and pictures, with Cole’s characteristically allusive style of writing here condensed to what he calls “fragments”. Teju Cole: ‘My camera is like an invisibility cloak. It makes me more free’ 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Where the voice in The God Of Small Things was subtle and allusive, her non-fiction writing and political activism have often been criticised as strident in tone, and simplistic. ‘Fiction takes its time’: Arundhati Roy on why it took 20 years to write her second novel 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z The young, dauntless South African artist aced his first American museum show, an allusive, melancholy infilling of the erasures of history. The best American art of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Sherman-Palladino rivals Aaron Sorkin or Quentin Tarantino in her talent for densely allusive, rat-a-tat dialogue, and some performers are more naturally suited to her manically loquacious style. 'Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life' is a welcome slice of smart holiday escapism 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Dylan's lyrics - ambiguous, playful and allusive - lend themselves to furrowed-brow study in a way that the vast majority of song words do not. Can song lyrics ever be poetry? - BBC News 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The title of the book is taken from another beautiful, allusive, sometimes even mystical writer – Walter Benjamin. Rabih Alameddine: 'I think we lose something once we get accepted' 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Unexpected travel routes, allusive jokes, sudden interruptions and emotional outbursts upended me, and sometimes I needed to ask questions or even protest. After a brain bleed, I picked through scattered memories for months 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z “The Complete Essays” comprises 68 texts, most of them brief, in which he presents an allusive, fragmented and recursive account of his photographic philosophy. Luigi Ghirri’s Brilliant Photographic Puzzles 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z All of that connecting allusively to the logic of the world’s spatial conundrums. 'The Last Guardian' Explores the Power of Bonds Forged Without Words 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Lovely, allusive passages like that suggest a much better, more subtle adaptation nested inside this one. Six Episodes of Sinister 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z In fact, the best-loved American puzzles are constructed around themed answers, clued with precisely the allusive wit for which you need a human – or another human to copy from. The great US crossword 'plagiarism' mystery 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z It is a silvery, allusive, restless piece of art – death or no death. I thought Lazarus was David Bowie’s latest guise… 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Some of it is rough and naive; some of it expert and allusive. TV Picks: 'Star Wars Wars,' 'Star Wars Uncut' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Deliberately taken out of context, the objects are made precious – worthy of placement behind glass – and their allusive qualities are further enhanced by the artist’s inscrutable classification and juxtaposition of materials. Better Than LSD? Trip Out On Joseph Cornell's Mind-Altering Art At This London Exhibit 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Barker’s photographs portrayed something considerably more nuanced and allusive: the intensity, fear, weariness, tedium and determination that registered on the faces and in the body language of Selma’s brave foot soldiers. Documenting Selma, From the Inside 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z It was moving and different and allusive of a charisma that Mr. O’Malley’s backers hope he translates to the presidential campaign trail. Martin O’Malley, a Hillary Clinton Loyalist, Is Now a Potential 2016 Alternative 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z The libretto adds to his difficulties; a self conscious and not particularly successful effort to achieve a high poetic tone through allusive language and extended soliloquies often comes across as awkward and long. 'Death of Klinghoffer': Private Grief Turned Into Public Entertainment 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s a real treat to be offered insight into the ordinarily camera-shy Cave’s songwriting, which is notable not just for its allusive eccentricity, but for a tone that is at once passionate and cerebral. ‘20,000 Days on Earth’ movie review: Getting to know a version of Nick Cave Eventually, demoralised by reading Joyce, he gave up his artistic ambitions and became a sportswriter, turning in eccentric articles that were "dense and allusive and saddled, at times, with what could be called pedantic humour". Blood Horses by John Jeremiah Sullivan – review 2013-03-21T10:01:01Z "Very attractive, ... full of sweet wisdom—allusive, stimulating, encouraging." A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z The plates abound with allusive suggestion and covert humour; but it is impossible to attempt any detailed description of them here. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z The inns, past and present, of Waterlooville, have all been named allusively—the “Waterloo” Hotel, the “Wellington” Inn, the “Belle Alliance.” The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z This checked something allusive about the class and he said instead that he supposed she was glad to be having her holidays now. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z May we regard them as allusive to the Serpent God and the Serpent Goddess of the Aztec mythology? Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World 2012-03-01T03:00:28.303Z The cross-corded, borne by the roper who became a “nobull man,” spoken of by that lady, belongs to the other class of allusive arms, as conveying a hint at his former menial occupation. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z This article was entitled What Is Wrong With Our Drama? and was signed with some obscurely allusive pseudonym. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Over each print, passages from scripture, allusive to the subject, in Latin, and at bottom the substance of them in four French verses. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z It is a difficult work — allusive, allegorical, at times surreal. | Anxiety: It's Still the 'Age of Anxiety.' Or Is It? 2012-01-14T23:21:03Z Lola Montez made her début on 21st September, in a short drama allusive to her own Bavarian transactions, but the piece might well have borne curtailment. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z New York Times: "Apt, happily allusive, finely informed essays on the dramatists of our own time—his essay style is vigorous and pleasing." More Portmanteau Plays 2011-11-11T03:00:27.887Z His conversation was, in the highest degree, pleasing; it was lively, allusive, full of anecdote: his manner of expressing himself was at once forcible and easy; his judgment was discriminating, his temper gentle and equal. Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z In the back ground groups of small figures allusive to the last judgment. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z They are mainly allusive, without any connected narrative. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The danger for a later public of allusive reference clear enough at one time is shown by the verses sung when the Helstone Furry, or Flower Dance, takes place in Cornwall. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z It was his pleasure in all his books to give his characters allusive names by which you were supposed to recognise their attributes at once. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z "These carefully directed pictures tell solid truths - about toil and communality and marginal economic survival - in a splendidly allusive way." Sony photographer prize announced 2011-04-27T19:00:33Z She rose with an air of dismissing the subject, though she continued to speak of it allusively. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z The literary essay, as it is actually constituted, is in subject-matter too abstract and remote, in mood too complex and intricate, and in style too allusive and evasive. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z With a pen and alone he felt the boredom of the job unendurably, and, to be through with it, became more and more terse, allusive, and compactly technical, after the style of his original papers. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Profoundly eccentric and tiresomely allusive in his form, and working in the short rhyming couplets thenceforth called “Hudibrastics,” Butler founded a small and peculiar but long-lived school of satire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z For a number of pages you are quite unable to tell whether this is a ghost or a legend or a foreboding or simply old-fashioned dreams that are being allusively placed before you. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z “Scriblerus’” account of the sessions of the dunces is more allusive and particularized than the rest of the poem and consequently calls for somewhat more detailed comment. The Scribleriad and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue 2011-01-05T03:00:54.800Z Of course, they are not ready for the indirect and allusive manner, nor for the lyric egoism, of the pure literary essay. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z Nobody ever tackled “Jeopardy!” because experts assumed that even for the latest artificial intelligence, the game was simply too hard: the clues are too puzzling and allusive, and the breadth of trivia is too wide. | Smarter Than You Think: I.B.M.'s Supercomputer to Challenge 'Jeopardy!' Champions 2010-06-17T05:11:00Z In short, they’re garish, clumsy, erratic, dirty and densely allusive; they seem to come from the margins, back alleys and black markets of commercial culture. The Medium: Music Videos Make a Web Comeback 2010-05-29T04:00:00Z Such direct personal references are not in keeping with the allusive style in which he writes of himself and others. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil But it is clear from the allusive manner in which the Scandinavian tales are told, that they must have been familiar to the poet's audience. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn This exactly answers to the literary language of ancient Ireland, which is curt and allusive to a degree. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race Computer scientists I spoke to agreed that witty, allusive clues will probably be Watson’s weak point. | Smarter Than You Think: I.B.M.'s Supercomputer to Challenge 'Jeopardy!' Champions 2010-06-17T05:11:00Z The old sacred name Yahweh is never pronounced; even “God” is avoided for allusive titles like “heaven” or “place.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Though he still adheres to an indirect and allusive treatment of his subject, these poems possess the interest of being based on real experience. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Indeed, it is extremely questionable whether our author too does not refer allusively to the same truth. The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews Both kinds are usually ornamented with elaborate and sometimes allusive designs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Their allusive arms were, Or, on a bend sable, three horse-shoes argent. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West Can any one doubt that it is allusive to the myth of which we have been treating in this chapter? Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning The reserve with which all his personal relations are indicated, and the allusive way in which the story of his fortunes is told, are in keeping with the delicacy and modesty of Virgil’s nature. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil From the merely allusive in literature, we proceed to the bibliography of Willenhall, which, though not extensive, is of fair average interest. The Annals of Willenhall The ceiling was stuccoed, somewhat similarly to the hall, with various subjects allusive to the Drapers' trade and to the heraldic bearings of the Company. Old and New London Volume I Angels support the cushions on which her head rests, and an animal, probably intended for a boar, as allusive to her family, is at her feet. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West He wants editing, for his allusive fashion of writing probably makes a great part of him nearly unintelligible to those who have not from their youth up devoted themselves to the acquisition of useless knowledge. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The series which Professor Hales is editing aims at being that very difficult and important something between the text-book for schools and the gracefully allusive literary essay. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Since the day when it began to have significance for them both it had scarcely been pronounced by either otherwise than allusively or of necessity. The Side Of The Angels A Novel A plant extends along part of another compartment, possibly allusive to their medical virtues; and, to show that Bacchus was not forgotten, beneath lies a thyrsus with a double head. Old and New London Volume I It is singular that no armorial alliance allusive to his wife appears on the tomb, but only his own family achievement with its proud distinguishment conspicuously displayed, finds place thereon. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West The casual and allusive manner in which he advances his information would seem to show that it was not of his own getting. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare At all events, one of Pushkin's utterances containing the words, "I hate thee and thy race, Thou autocratic villain," does not lack in allusive clearness. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 It is remarkable for the extraordinary richness of allusive extracts from the Roman classics, almost every maxim being immediately followed by an apt Latin example. Raleigh Some persons grow angry with him for a certain tone of half-gay, half-sad, allusive tenderness, when he speaks of Oxford and the country round Oxford. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Under this section are collected also the personal notices yielding their testimony to the genuineness of the letters in a manner not less striking, because incidental and allusive, than the testimony of the geographical section. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 There was nothing delicate about her—nothing spirituelle—on the contrary, she was markedly full-veined, cheerful and humorous, and yet she had responded several times to an allusive phrase with surprising quickness. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range The Mark and the motto are equally allusive: the former is an axe of the 133 kind known as doloire, held in a hand which is issuing out of a cloud. Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography Fancy not, reader, that this tumult of images, illustrative or allusive, moves under any impulse or purpose of mirth. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 On the carved mantelpiece is the date, 1629, and the owls which constitute the punning, or allusive, arms of Bishop Oldham. Exeter A Fish borne as an allusive device by the family of De Barre: No. 162. The Handbook to English Heraldry These are specimens of a great many allusive mottoes. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I An Allegorical subject, allusive to the demolition of a statue offensive to the Low Countries. Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. Nothing could be better than the way in which the haughty and allusive conversation between Miss Twinkleton and the landlady illustrates the maddening preference of some females for skating upon thin social ice. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens For the allusive and fragmentary style of the Giaour, The Voyage of Columbus, which Rogers published in 1812, is in part responsible. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 They are borne as allusive charges, and also as types of some connection between those persons who bear them and the sea or lakes or rivers. The Handbook to English Heraldry The book is full of acute perceptions, fine judgments, felicitous epigrams—but it is too allusive, too fantastic; neither has it the balance and justice required for so serious and comprehensive a task. Ionica Fortune Reversed, an allegorical subject, allusive to some hero upon whom Fortune has turned her back. Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. The generality, however, of the devices of that reign were fulsome flatteries, allusive to the Maiden Queen; such as—the moon, with the words, Quid sine te cœlum? Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 He was between them as an awesome presence, never mentioned otherwise than allusively. The Letter of the Contract As a matter of course, allusive mottoes, like allusive arms, afford curious examples of mediæval puns. The Handbook to English Heraldry They are plain and simple, as different as possible from the allusive brevity of the Northern poems. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature "Now, would you not say that a contemporary of Shakespeare's would be a better judge of his poetry and its allusive and natural meaning than ever so learned a linguist, after an interval of change?" My New Curate He was genial and jocose, sunburnt and romantically allusive. The Tragic Muse This was a long, explicit speech for Mrs. Burrage, who dealt, usually, in the cursory and allusive; and she may very well have expected that Miss Chancellor would recognise its importance. The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) The old mythology, when it was kept, was used allegorically and allusively. Romance Two Lectures The poems of Widsith and Deor's Lament show how the allusive and lyrical manner of referring to heroic legend was kept up in England. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature Once started on this sort of allusive nonsense it was difficult for us to head off the Skeptic. A Court of Inquiry His wealth of detail is amazing, but never wearying, and he is happily allusive to the nature-lore of the poets, and to the legends and myths of the woodland. Some Spring Days in Iowa The one desires the downright, the concrete, the real; the other is titillated by the subtle, the allusive, the half-spoken. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin Nay, with certain early writers—say Chaucer or Dunbar, as with certain highly allusive ones—Bacon, or Milton, or Sir Thomas Browne—some apparatus must be supplied from the start. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 There is one class of poem that represents a single action with some detail; there is another that represents a long and complex story in a summary and allusive way. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature It is characteristic of its author in its reality of feeling, in its seeking an unusual point of view, in its parenthetic and allusive style, and its occasional high felicity of expression. Browning's Shorter Poems When Fontenelle became an Arcadian, they baptized the new Pastor by their graceful diminutive—Fontanella—allusive to the charm, of his style; and further they magnificently presented him with the entire Isle of Delos! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Some deemed the very name of Sunday profaned the Christian mouth, as allusive to the Saxon idolatry of that day being dedicated to the Sun; and hence they sanctified it with the "Lord's-day." Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions The difficulty, not to say obscurity, of the "Divine Comedy"; its allusive, elliptical style; its scholasticism and allegorical method; its multitudinous references to local politics and the history of thirteenth-century Italy, defied approach. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Karissima will try, to please Madame, and with painful effort achieves a half-dozen clumsy steps till unconquerable habit and Mr. Arnold Bax's allusively witty music lift her on tiptoe again. Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. With this, an indirect, allusive way of telling the story, which Goethe mentions in his prefatory note to "Des Sängers Fluch," as a constant note of the "Volkslied." A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Single phrases embodying a notable image would remain with him, and remain ready for use as allusive colour or pointed epigram. Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch The same defect was made the subject of a caricature particularly allusive to critical prejudices in his "Lives of the Poets," in which he is pictured as an owl "blinking at the stars." Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Their teaching is less complete and uncompromising, more veiled, tentative and allusive, and sometimes cumbered by material notions. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 She had, as a matter of fact, told us little enough and that rather allusively, but I felt that I knew the whole history of the unhappy Claire Sévérac. The Jervaise Comedy His answer was that Robinson Crusoe was an allegory, and that the telling or writing a parable or an allusive allegorical history is quite a different case. Daniel Defoe They were pungent, pertinent, allusive, succinct, supplementing, as with meat, those others. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay I'm afraid we were too allusive for him. Second Plays "To think of her," replied Septimus, vaguely allusive, "is a liberal education." Septimus “I don’t know what your game is,” he returned allusively. The Jervaise Comedy Why convey the facts allusively in an allegory? Daniel Defoe The tone, however—allusive, intimate, patronizing—in which Harman had spoken, annoyed him, and he passed on without taking any notice. The Marriage of William Ashe Her tone, delicately free and allusive, once more drew Sir Wilfrid's curious eyes to her, and he caught also the impatient gesture with which the Duchess received the remark. Lady Rose's Daughter The arms and crest borne by the Oakdens were both allusive to the name, certainly without any reference to King Charles's hiding-place. Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850 A rapid dialogue passed between them, the dialogue of experts, sharp, allusive, elliptical, in the midst of which the host gave the signal for joining the ladies. Marcella It is divided into narrative, representative, and allusive or parabolical poetry. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy At other times a place-name is used with allusive interest, the suggested incident being meant, like certain stories alluded to in the Anglo-Saxon "Beowulf," to set off, by comparison or contrast, the present situation. The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai So I made such a collection, leaving out the more topical and allusive sketches, and including those with a more general appeal. The Sunny Side His style is so peculiar, so allusive, and so full of metaphor and quotation, and the work is luminous with "the sparks of so many sciences," that a good translation is a desideratum. Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 The manner is as natural to him as a man's physical voice, and it is abrupt, sketchy, allusive, and full of gaps. Robert Browning Of course letters enable you to evade some of the difficulties of the novelist's task, to be discursive, allusive and incomplete. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 14, 1914 The romance was, of course, highly topical in Spain, but, waiving the rather debatable point of Sidney's allusive intentions, it never appears to have been generally so regarded in this country. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England She always gives her directions obliquely and allusively, by the mention of something relative or consequential, without any other purpose than to exercise my acuteness and her own. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler They both signify the same thing; both are allusive to a purification of life. The Symbolism of Freemasonry The one was full of eager, dull questions; the other had never thought, had never troubled to see the thing as a single fact, and he was allusive and difficult to follow. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth He had a sheet or two of paper before him, to which he referred as he spoke, and he seemed to be summing up, in a very allusive manner, some earlier speeches of his. Dawn of All The allusive and allegorical features which had long been traditional in the pastoral likewise suited the topical and occasional nature of the masque. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England Mr Verloc was not a well-read person; his range of allusive phrases was limited, but there was a peculiar aptness in circumstances which made him think of rats leaving a doomed ship. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale He began to produce his knowledge of the world for her benefit, jerkily and allusively, and with a strong, rank flavor of "savoir faire." Ann Veronica, a modern love story Their little interview was like a picnic on a coral strand; they passed each other, with melancholy smiles and looks sufficiently allusive, such cupfuls of water as they had saved. The Ambassadors The thought of the ridicule struck deeper than any other sensation: Lily knew every turn of the allusive jargon which could flay its victims without the shedding of blood. House of Mirth These passages soon began to uncover the secret which Lucetta had so earnestly hoped to keep buried, though the epistles, being allusive only, did not make it altogether plain. The Mayor of Casterbridge No genuine Magazine reader cares for the elusive or allusive style in fiction. A Chair on the Boulevard When Austin explained Viviette's meaning to his mother, who had not an allusive habit of mind, she acquiesced placidly. Viviette There is a new couplet for Sheridan, allusive to his Monody2. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 Cleomenes, 1692, is a tragedy, only remarkable as it occasioned an incident related in the Guardian, and allusively mentioned by Dryden in his preface. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Let him be as allusive as he liked when there was no risky work on hand, and I was his lucky and delighted audience till all hours of the night or morning. Mr. Justice Raffles It is difficult to see the relation between these two allusive lines and the rest of the stanza. The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 It was but the vague, twilight, allusive talk which, coming readily to all men in love, came the more readily to one always a poet, and not merely a poet by being in love. Home Again But its style, while it bears the general colour of the Silver Age, has also large traces of that compressed and allusive manner which Tacitus later carried to such an extreme degree of perfection. Latin Literature He was not disposed to allow the prophetic or allusive character so largely as is done by Horne and others; but he acknowledged it in some instances in the fullest manner. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge But as soon as the talk drifted into anything allusive to war or books or art or politics, she manifested an ignorance abysmal in its profundity. The Mountebank These two lines are taken as allusive, the speaker being led by the sight of the weak plants supported by the trees, shrubs, and tombs, to think of her own desolate, unsupported condition. The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 Strikingly as the ballads differ from consciously "artistic" narrative in their broken movement and allusive method, the contrast is even more different if we consider the naive quality of their refrains. A Study of Poetry But the words go a great deal deeper than allusive symbolism of that sort. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke And so, says the Psalmist allusively, in a similar manner, the Divine Power surrounds the man who chooses God for his heritage, and nothing shall take that heritage from him. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms It is complex, varied, and allusive, but its extreme obscurity makes us suspect even when we cannot prove, inaccuracy. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius These allusive lines, probably, indicate the speaker's widowhood, Which left her like 'a boat floating about on the water.' The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 She had forgotten everything but that image of her helpless misery which she was trying to make present to Deronda in broken allusive speech—wishing to convey but not express all her need. Daniel Deronda He was silent long enough to suggest his fearing that almost anything he might say would appear too allusive; then at last once more he took his risk. The Awkward Age I suspect it is elliptical and allusive, and it occurs to me that it may be familiar to you; if so, I know you will have pleasure in explaining it to me. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman The third book, after a short and offensively allusive description of the labours of preceding poets, sketches the twelve athla or accidents of human life, to each of which is assigned its special guardian influence. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius In other pieces different stanzas have allusive lines peculiar to themselves. The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 He is coming in judgment upon Samaria and Jerusalem, the wicked capitals of wicked kingdoms, i. 1-9; and in the difficult verses, i. 10-16, the devastating march of the enemy through Judah is allusively described. Introduction to the Old Testament References to Aeneas crop out here and there in the Georgics, and the mysterious address to Mantua in the third book promises, under allusive metaphors, an epic of Trojan heroes. Vergil A Biography In the following table the quotations which are merely allusive are included in brackets:— Exact. The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' Adj. metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical†, typical, tralatitious†, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical†; ironical; colloquial; tropical. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Generally, the allusive lines convey a meaning harmonizing with those which follow, where an English poet would begin the verses with Like or As. The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 Johnson when he carried Mr. Langton to see him, professed that he could bring him out into conversation, and used this allusive expression, "Sir, I can make him rear." Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 So he is, but not all the adjectives allusive to his state are equally complimentary. The Century Vocabulary Builder In the Homeric sense, as allusive to the hurling of the ponderous _chermadion, the figure is correct and expressive.' Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Itinerant Windbags are rarely scrupulous about their facts, and the allusive style flavoured with stinging invective is far more telling than any historical narrative, however picturesque and eloquent it may be. The Coming of the Friars In leaving this subject, it is only necessary to say further that the allusive, the metaphorical, and the narrative elements sometimes all occur in the same piece. The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 Henry James himself shrinks from analysing it, even allusively and insinuatingly. Without Prejudice She listened to him, her eyes wide open, and then in her little allusive way suggested that she would like to copy something. Celibates We laughed, and for a time talk ceased to be allusive. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel It might have been as allusive as his fine propriety demanded, but surely the word should have been spoken! The Crown of Life It is difficult to trace the connexion between-these allusive lines and the rest of the piece. The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 The couple exchanged a glance, innocently allusive and amused on the wife's part, and charged with a sudden tragic significance on the husband's. Tales of Men and Ghosts The strong wine of allusive talk mounted to Paul's brain. The Fortunate Youth Everybody is trying the allusive style now, and wandering from the subject in hand to quote a book, or to refer to something very remotely connected with it. Mr. Hogarth's Will Sometimes her talk was brilliantly allusive; at others it was frothy chatter. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life Occasionally, it is difficult,. not to say impossible, to discover the metaphorical idea in the allusive lines, and then we can only deal with them as a sort of refrain. The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 For letter-writing, at its best, is an allusive art, something that suggests rather than describes. Love Eternal From that time on, more or less allusive notes appeared in the newspapers about my past. My Life and My Efforts There was something in this allusive change of epithet, that gave Julia a little more courage—"He was indeed, sir; and if I am very wrong, as I have often thought, I have some apology." Guy Mannering “Parallel, allusion, the allusive way generally, the flowers in the garden”—Mr. Pater charges heavily against these. How to Fail in Literature; a lecture I was mentioned at public prayer-meetings, not indeed by name but, in the extraordinary allusive way customary in our devotions, as 'one amongst us of tender years' or as 'a sapling in the Lord's vineyard'. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments In this heroic period love is only spoken of incidentally and allusively. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology And the following, recast in a less allusive and conversational manner, is the story that he told. The Man Who Knew Too Much Johnson when he carried Mr. Langton to see him, professed that he could bring him out into conversation, and used this allusive expression, "Sir, I can make him REAR." Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood The allusive style has its proper place, like another, if it is used by the right man, and the concentrated and structural style has also its higher province. How to Fail in Literature; a lecture For her, and for my Father, nothing was symbolic, nothing allegorical or allusive in any part of Scripture, except what was, in so many words, proffered as a parable or a picture. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments It had been a little absurd, he perceived, to expect these girls to leap at once to a complete understanding of the halting hints, the allusive indications of the thoughts that now possessed his soul. Soul of a Bishop It is indeed an allusive title, carrying the world back to the Wilhelm Meister of Goethe, a century and a half earlier. The World Set Free Knowledge has two good uses; it may be frankly communicated for the benefit of others, or it may minister matter to thought; an allusive writer often robs it of both these functions. Style |
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