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Approaching the texts in a suggestive and allusive manner, they draw on their own poetic experience to elucidate the texts.
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.
Both make allusive abstract forms that can suggest seedpods, cells or constellations, and both work in a generous scale with a sensitive touch.
Designer Susan Benson imparts the allusive quality of a Japanese watercolour, and Michael Whitfield beautifully recreates changing natural light.
Graphite hits the retina in allusive ways, and in these drawings, broad tonal variety and the use of both white and buff sheets simulate chroma.
A fair portion of contemporary poetry over-relies on self-reflexive irony, tonal detachment, and an often irritating allusive erudition.
While the poetry is cryptic, allusive and ambiguous, the prose is lucid, oracular, loftily self-assured.
After the likes of such instruments as guitars, drums, bass guitar, and harmonica, the band whipped out the allusive Australian didgeridoo.
He is able to construct space through the juxtaposition of colors and to play with allusive reference.
Equally allusive is his palette, which, despite being dominated by green, looks completely unnatural.
Another sort of punning found in newspapers is the allusive re-using of nonce words from slogans.
Her allusive serial art makes use of pairings, sequences and minutes compositional shifts.
He enjoyed adorning his Latin poems with words and phrases that are sometimes ornamental in function, sometimes more meaningfully allusive.
In his strange digressive and allusive biography of Christ he presents him as the incarnation of the overwhelming mystery of God.
As an essayist, he conveys similar purpose, putting across his thoughts in a lively, questioning, allusive and often self-deprecatory way.
Again and commonly, physical beauty enjoys a symbolic and allusive function in these Anglo-Saxon texts.
Trying too hard to be symbolic and trendily allusive, it collapses under the weight of its ambitions.
Chopin's Preludes return independence to the hands in order to display a new kind of allusive dialogue between them.
Often his poetic imagination would transform a work into a richly allusive visual poem using just a few simple symbols and an apposite title.
Praising Jansenism or the products of its teaching remained an allusive way to proclaim the need for an animating conviction to invigorate liberal principles.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is divided into narrative, representative, and allusive or parabolical poetry.
When Austin explained Viviette's meaning to his mother, who had not an allusive habit of mind, she acquiesced placidly.
Henry James, Senior, dealt with such things in the most allusive and paradoxical terms.
He loved to come at the truth of things by allusive, far-off reflections, rather than by the sharp questioning of the witness-box.
It is indeed an allusive title, carrying the world back to the Wilhelm Meister of Goethe, a century and a half earlier.
It was allusive only, but knowing the dialect, Pierston and Marcia gathered its import easily.
Some, as Austria, instead of one Eagle, adopt two as their allusive emblazonry.
My indictment will be short, as some of the parties is not present to which you have been allusive.
Readers of lay Wright's poetry know him as a relentlessly allusive and idiosyncratic mythmaker who is always playing more games than one.
And the following, recast in a less allusive and conversational manner, is the story that he told.
These are becoming more and more common than the allusive intelligent person sightings.
He was genial and jocose, sunburnt and romantically allusive.
This is only book one, so the discoveries may be marginal, incomplete and, at times, allusive.
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