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a statement that refers to something without mentioning it directly
The lyrics contain biblical allusions.
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Other radical allusions appear in works like Kounellis’s untitled 1969 piece, which features a candle and a plaque with the words LIBERTÀ O MORTE W MARAT W ROBESPIERRE, referring to the Jacobin martyrs of the French Revolution.
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Wilson Tarbox, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Musical theater is the most American art form that exists, all dazzle and jazz hands, but Fitzgerald’s novel draws its power from the lightness of its allusions.
—Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Materials, too, break from neutral modernist tropes, with allusions to the lapis lazuli and bronze of artifacts.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2024
His novels are filled with allusions to books, poetry, music, art.
—Charles McGrath, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
However, these vague thematic allusions are about the movie’s only truly concise facets.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Oct. 2024
There are some things that work wonderfully about Folie à Deux’s take on Harley and Joker as a couple, like its many allusions to the way that her star has often eclipsed his in the grand scheme of DC Comics IP.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 4 Oct. 2024
The exhibition lays claim to the body as the superintending conceit of Warhol’s corpus—an argument often strained by inclusions here of the Hammer & Sickle (1976) works or allusions to the film Sleep (1964).
—Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Wilson Tarbox, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Musical theater is the most American art form that exists, all dazzle and jazz hands, but Fitzgerald’s novel draws its power from the lightness of its allusions.
—Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Materials, too, break from neutral modernist tropes, with allusions to the lapis lazuli and bronze of artifacts.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2024
His novels are filled with allusions to books, poetry, music, art.
—Charles McGrath, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
However, these vague thematic allusions are about the movie’s only truly concise facets.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Oct. 2024
There are some things that work wonderfully about Folie à Deux’s take on Harley and Joker as a couple, like its many allusions to the way that her star has often eclipsed his in the grand scheme of DC Comics IP.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 4 Oct. 2024
The exhibition lays claim to the body as the superintending conceit of Warhol’s corpus—an argument often strained by inclusions here of the Hammer & Sickle (1976) works or allusions to the film Sleep (1964).
—Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Allusions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allusions. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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