| If you're going to take on an author as indirect and allusive as James, then it might be good to try for indirection and allusiveness. |
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| This cryptogram is typical of the allusiveness of the poem, part of which is now impenetrable. |
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| She uses non-realistic devices from fairy tale and a playful allusiveness to other texts in both dialogue and third-person narration. |
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| Another, less-remarked problem, is that the extraordinary allusiveness of his prose is the product of a kind of education which no longer exists. |
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| The allusiveness requires us to attend to the internal structure of the text, and at the same time asks us to step outside it, to other texts. |
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| There are kinds of subtlety and metaphorical allusiveness that are easier to achieve in comics than in novels. |
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| How is conscious irony to be distinguished from mere ambivalence, or allusiveness from allegory? |
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| Sturdy familiarity with country life goes along with delicate stylistic accomplishment and sophisticated literary allusiveness. |
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| If you can stand the obliqueness, the allusiveness and the tension-inducing pace, you are in for an experience that is disturbing, revelatory and poetic. |
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| Still trying to match form to vision, he expresses his longing for spiritual regeneration in pared-down verse forms that are almost abstract patterns of musical and symbolic allusiveness. |
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| Clay Smith has argued that this sort of allusiveness serves to situate Gaiman as a strong authorial presence in his own works, often to the exclusion of his collaborators. |
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