I added the links in service to Bissage's awesome allusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [In anticipation of Friday's debate, the NYT sizes up Obama and McCain.] Reference
She will just have to live her life in service to Bissage's awesome allusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [A late afternoon coffee break.] Reference
Luckily, their allusiveness escaped her; she knew nothing of the diversions of the ancient gods. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
I direct students to the rich allusiveness of his work, his careful craftsmanship, and his often hidden meanings. From Wordnik.com. [Interview With Professor Jeanne Campbell Reesman] Reference
When the semiotician suspects allusiveness without corresponding exact reference, he charges the poet with nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [Fractures of Unfamiliarity] Reference
This passage instantiates a general feature of East-Asian culture, which favors allusiveness over explicitness and completeness. From Wordnik.com. [Japanese Aesthetics] Reference
Gone are the subversive wit, the aching sense of a man falling out of love with his industry, the sly allusiveness and fierce moral power. From Wordnik.com. [Jargon Spoils Analysts' Prose] Reference
There is something about the style of these thinkers, its gaps, its allusiveness, its suggestiveness, and so on that makes it highly fit for cultural circulation. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
I was under the impression that very many African languages posess this quality of double meaning and allusiveness, although being no linguist I can't say for certain. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: QENE.] Reference
And the process of reading Emma does come to seem, thanks to this allusiveness, what Mitford said it was: a return to a neighbourhood in which we have long been settled. From Wordnik.com. [Social Theory at Box Hill: Acts of Union] Reference
The heavy-handed allusiveness may just be an aesthetic mistake, a secondary flaw we have to countenance while otherwise acknowledging the narrative power of the novel as a whole. From Wordnik.com. [Point of View in Fiction] Reference
The foreign language is the first thing to go, the very sound and order of the words, and along with them all the resonance and allusiveness that they carry for the native reader. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: HOW TO READ A TRANSLATION.] Reference
'Another feature of Lamb's style is its allusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Obiter Dicta Second Series] Reference
The mark of his style is an excessive and pretentious allusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Style] Reference
C he glories in the artificiality, the allusiveness, of his writing. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
I like the casual, playful allusiveness, Bellow's trademark mingling of high and low. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotal Evidence] Reference
Rosedale looked faintly puzzled, and she remembered that allusiveness was lost on him. From Wordnik.com. [House of Mirth] Reference
Why even did he not continue his disquisition on the philosophic value of allusiveness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Belovéd Vagabond] Reference
Mr. Robertson's lively style and happy allusiveness keep the reader interested to the end. From Wordnik.com. [Montaigne and Shakspere] Reference
Clever allusiveness was therefore imperative, if the penalties of the decrees were to be avoided. From Wordnik.com. [Folk Songs of French Canada] Reference
A knowledge of books ought to give a man a delicate allusiveness, an aptitude for pointed quotation. From Wordnik.com. [From a College Window] Reference
The tangled political dissensions of the time are set before us with the baffling allusiveness of the expert. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning] Reference
With such allusiveness as this I need not say that I have not meddled in my notes; its whole charm lies in recognising it for ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Obiter Dicta Second Series] Reference
Nothing escapes from the besom of his allusiveness, and the style is streaked and pied, almost to monotony, by the accumulation of lively details. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry] Reference
On the other hand we have the grand style, which exemplifies floridity, allusiveness, formal, sometimes abstruse diction, and rhetorical ornament. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3] Reference
All this polyphonic allusiveness, this intricate fuguing of ideas, is not to be confused, remember, with the hollow showiness of the academic soothsayer. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
In one point of view, however, "Samson Agonistes" deserves to be esteemed a national poem, pregnant with a deeper allusiveness than has always been recognized. From Wordnik.com. [Life of John Milton] Reference
In one point of view, however, “Samson Agonistes” deserves to be esteemed a national poem, pregnant with a deeper allusiveness than has always been recognized. From Wordnik.com. [Life of John Milton]
Delightfully engaging manner, with humor, allusiveness and an abundance of the personal note. ". From Wordnik.com. [Some Forerunners of Italian Opera] Reference
"I'm sure that the allusiveness, not that entirely outre in the '60's, is well lost here in the' 90's. From Wordnik.com. [Fractures of Unfamiliarity] Reference
Vernon Lee possesses the best gifts of the essayists -- the engaging turn, the graceful touch, the subtle allusiveness. ". From Wordnik.com. [Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life] Reference
It does not repeat the name Ishmael either, but that name’s meaning lies in its allusiveness and not in its pointing mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [Carver and authorial intention] Reference
He weighed that remark as if it might cover a snare, before he scored a triumph of allusiveness by replying, "Fellow called Carter. From Wordnik.com. [The Jervaise Comedy] Reference
The allusiveness was agonizing. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
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