allusive speech is characterized by allusions. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Jarmusch is the director who puts the loose in "allusive" and the lipstick in "elliptical"; I fully recognize his movies aren't to everybody's taste. From Wordnik.com. [News & Politics] Reference
DreamWorks, in particular, has made the kind of allusive, parodic cultural self-consciousness that used to be called postmodernism safe for the whole family. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
'prays in aid of similes,' -- that this is a specimen of what he calls elsewhere 'allusive' writing. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded] Reference
His response was characteristically edged and allusive. From Wordnik.com. [Exit Olmert] Reference
It can be erudite and allusive, but it is also a folk art. From Wordnik.com. ['The Oxford Book of Parodies'] Reference
Let me be less allusive: It was vicious, cynical and ugly. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Barol: On Sarah Palin's Likability] Reference
The allusive Reggie the Gator finally behind bars this morning. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 25, 2007] Reference
Morandi created an art of surprising variety and allusive power. From Wordnik.com. [The Sights of Silence: Morandi's Enigmatic Vision] Reference
Stannard's affinity for the mandarin Waugh shows in his allusive style. From Wordnik.com. [ON PARNASSUS FOR 15 MINUTES] Reference
Eight-hundred-plus choked, allusive, erudite pages on The Faerie Queene!. From Wordnik.com. [Wandering in Wayes Unknowne] Reference
They both signify the same thing; both are allusive to a purification of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference
This is not a matter of "African writing" but of one learned and allusive poet. From Wordnik.com. [Gbedu and Oshugbo] Reference
Figure skater Michelle Kwan is getting another shot at the allusive Olympic gold medal. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2006] Reference
It was written in a cramped, allusive style: Koubatzes writing to himself, for himself. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
On the topic of "Blue's Clues," the CD is only faintly allusive -- and never disparaging. From Wordnik.com. [Do You Know This Man? Need A Clue?] Reference
Ernest Hemingway was one of the first prominent writers to use clipped, allusive sentences. From Wordnik.com. [Informed Reader] Reference
But even Muslim governments have engaged in the allusive connection to past military glories. From Wordnik.com. [Firas Al-Atraqchi: The Propaganda of 'Holy Warriors'] Reference
It's too soon to represent or even contemplate their deaths in any but the most allusive terms. From Wordnik.com. [The Banality of Fake Profundity] Reference
Had it discernible rhythm, it might be termed 'rhythm allusive' but my example lacks even that. From Wordnik.com. [Fractures of Unfamiliarity] Reference
The songs on "Widow City" maintain the group's slightly off-kilter quality and allusive lyrics. From Wordnik.com. [From Mr. Magoo to Baghdad] Reference
Mr. Buckley's responses are equally pithy, though slightly higher toned and always more allusive. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Mr. Buckley,] Reference
Should this hyper-allusive train of thought become too confusing to process, the invitation to just. From Wordnik.com. [Fractures of Unfamiliarity] Reference
This and other allusive sundries can be found in my weekly Mad Men recap, now at a laptop near you. From Wordnik.com. [It's Not the Heat, It's the Cupidity: James Wolcott] Reference
Fortune Reversed, an allegorical subject, allusive to some hero upon whom Fortune has turned her back. From Wordnik.com. [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.] Reference
Art must “evoke, in a deliberate shadow, the object which is silenced, be allusive, never direct.”. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Oakdens were both allusive to the name, certainly without any reference to King Charles's hiding-place. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850] Reference
The only way on earth such a sentence would likely get written is as an example of a null allusive set. From Wordnik.com. [Fractures of Unfamiliarity] Reference
The analogy may appear as an allusive phrase or it may provide the structure for an extended discussion. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Fancy not, reader, that this tumult of images, illustrative or allusive, moves under any impulse or purpose of mirth. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
"The repair sad mutthead forkbender orange in the how are you, did they?" is nonsense without reference, hence not allusive. From Wordnik.com. [Fractures of Unfamiliarity] Reference
Many of these, like those of the negroes in the United States, were extemporaneous, and allusive to events passing around them. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference
Liam Finn's album has a spare, melodic sound, with many of the songs addressing relationships and life lessons in an allusive way. From Wordnik.com. [Music: Liam Finn] Reference
Page 378, Volume 4 taste for allegory and the wit that delights in learned and allusive jests, such as inspired the ceiling of the. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
"You're Missing" could be a broken-home country song like "Four Walls"; what seems the least subtly allusive song, "My City of Ruins," was written before September 11. From Wordnik.com. [Report From A City Of Ruins] Reference
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