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- noun Plural form of
allusion .
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Examples
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The first of the three allusions is the First Amendment itself.
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One of my favorite allusions is in the title of the short story by Haikasoru friend and Otsuichi fan Briane Keene, author of “The King, In: Yellow.”
October « 2009 « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009
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One of my favorite allusions is in the title of the short story by Haikasoru friend and Otsuichi fan Briane Keene, author of “The King, In: Yellow.”
Who is the King in Yellow? « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009
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The lyrics contain allusions to black cats, walking under ladders, and spilling salt shakers.
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"[Clint] Eastwood does not generally traffic in allusions or visual quotations; his visual style is decidedly classical, rather than postmodern, emphasizing plainness, transparency and the efficient delivery of narrative information," writes AO Scott, selecting his from a point in Letters From Iwo Jima when two soldiers are brought to a cave.
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Baraheni is a Turkish speaker from Tabriz, and his poems, which lay a heavy emphasis on the material and the earthy, contain allusions to Ezra Pound, Walter Benjamin, and Charles Baudelaire.
The Persian Version 2006
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Baraheni is a Turkish speaker from Tabriz, and his poems, which lay a heavy emphasis on the material and the earthy, contain allusions to Ezra Pound, Walter Benjamin, and Charles Baudelaire.
The Persian Version 2006
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Arabic literature abounds in allusions to this unpleasant category of “damned ill-natured friends;” and Spanish and Portuguese letters, including Brazilian, have thoroughly caught the trick.
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The concluding stanza may have wandered as far in its allusions from the opening stanza, as the last from the first sentence in an essay.
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She called allusions to that effect "irresponsible."
latimes.com - News 2011
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