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Recent Examples of allusive
Their plots were complex, nested, allusive, the sort of TV that demanded activity and attention rather than passivity.
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Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
Style often allowed a filmmaker to set a mood in an allusive way.
—Hazlitt, 9 Aug. 2023
Aside from the text on that bottle, O’Brien’s work is allusive and indirect.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
But by choosing literalness over ambiguity, ‘The Boogeyman’ doesn’t quite stick the landing like that richly allusive 2014 Australian film did.
—Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
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Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
Style often allowed a filmmaker to set a mood in an allusive way.
—Hazlitt, 9 Aug. 2023
Aside from the text on that bottle, O’Brien’s work is allusive and indirect.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
But by choosing literalness over ambiguity, ‘The Boogeyman’ doesn’t quite stick the landing like that richly allusive 2014 Australian film did.
—Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allusive
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The vote is indicative of Asian Americans’ rightward shift toward tougher crime policies like much of the state, analysts say.Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Each frame in the animation covers two days, and the black circle is indicative of an expanding area that sees no sunlight as winter progresses.Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
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For example, bullet journaling, reflective journaling, junk journaling, gratitude journaling and freewriting.Noma Nazish, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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That’s reflective of the current Pope Francis, who’s been largely commended for his liberal viewpoints.Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 Nov. 2024
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Semantic bleaching is another linguistic process whereby the denotative content of a word is stripped away.Brandon Tensley, CNN, 10 July 2022
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The paragon of such an attempt is something like Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror, a work that stands as a denotative record of the social media shift, yet still falls to the same difficulties that characterize other cultural criticism of this type.SPIN, SPIN, 8 Feb. 2022
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My films are really expressive about people’s lives.Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
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Yamada’s color direction is deeply expressive from start to finish.Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
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He was reportedly discovered by an employee of Russia's foreign intelligence agency, the SVR, with injuries characteristic of a fall.Harriet Marsden, The Week UK, theweek, 22 Oct. 2024
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The people wear regular clothes, including the women and girls, who were dressed in blue jeans or leggings, not the prairie dresses that are characteristic of the polygamist sect.Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2024
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These hernias can be both symptomatic or asymptomatic.Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024
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In any case, whether or not the crisis persists, the movies that have been its symptomatic victims will endure and be remembered.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2024
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These subtle symbolic and rhetorical shifts suggest that North Korea is dissatisfied with China.Sungmin Cho, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
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However, any change in Puerto Rico's status requires U.S. Congressional approval, making this vote largely symbolic for now.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Allusive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allusive. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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