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"allusion" Definitions
  1. allusion (to somebody/something) something that is said or written that refers to or mentions another person or subject in an indirect way (= alludes to it)

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No, that's not an allusion to the GOP primary. .
As for a date when the hydrophobic allusion began to
Censors scrubbed any allusion to it within the Great Firewall.
If anything, the allusion was a respectful avoidance of sensationalism.
Each song on the album is based on an allusion.
The allusion to Friedrich's painting introduces another current of meaning.
For Anderson, the allusion to lynching wasn't just a metaphor.
His dialogue was suffused with psychological subtext and literary allusion.
As for you, you should greet this news with hope, not allusion.
Any allusion to religion, violence, bad language, and sex are now undesirable.
But it's also hard not to see an allusion to a wharf.
There is much allusion (often to the Bible or to Jewish liturgy).
Left unspoken was his allusion to another coastal outpost for cabernet wines, Bordeaux.
Its promotional slogan, "Stronger Together" is a deliberate allusion to Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Sometimes its as simple as a name-drop or allusion to other heroes.
It's an eloquent allusion to the grueling labor of constantly performing one's identity.
While a fan might uncover a carefully concealed, laughable subtle reference or allusion.
Silverman's allusion to Pierce's Old Man Game, really hits it on the head.
Is Lodge 49 an allusion to Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49?
A cryptic clue would have to include a "definition," some allusion to aura.
Kerry James Marshall's inspired use of art historical allusion and the color black.
I also think the allusion to "booty call" is a bit of fun.
British building in India was for the most part an exercise in allusion.
A Rome episode of "No Reservations" made black-and-white allusion to Fellini.
There is also an allusion made to the character's previous service in the military.
The allusion comes when the vest's feedback control is set to a high level.
As it was, there was just one tiny, blink-and-you'll-miss-it allusion.
Was the head-to-toe white an allusion to the shade of the suffragette movement?
The BBC's royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell commented on the Queen's most recent allusion to Brexit.
An allusion to the fifth track and third single of the album, "The Archer," perhaps?
Bourgeois's iconic spider sculptures, the artist said, were an allusion to her thread-weaving mother.
Koehler concludes with an allusion to the Harvey Weinstein case on everyone's minds right now.
His mission is being called Proxima, an allusion to the closest star to the Sun.
"My commander stays," reads one scrawl, an allusion to Ortega, and others contain vulgar insults.
But I will say this: Yes, it is definitely a loving allusion to Mr. Pynchon.
Dense with allusion and impervious to any consistent interpretation, her work often invites contradictory responses.
Talusan has the instincts of a storyteller, teasing out her narrative through images and allusion.
"It concerns all cases where there's an allusion to a protected origin," Mr. Fammler said.
He suggested Léger, liking the allusion to lightness, for which the French word is légèreté.
It's an allusion to the epic poet Homer's work, which apparently contains errors in continuity.
Like the Picasso allusion, the Shakespearean nod feels like a name-drop without a purpose.
There are other clues as well, like the singer's allusion to his past playboy behavior.
The ambiguity here is queer, an allusion to ideas of self-love and shared love.
With or without the figurative allusion, like much of Smith's work, its emotional force is huge.
The segment also featured the sound of gunshots, an allusion to the Black Lives Matter movement.
In the end, no amount of banter or allusion to future riches could bridge the gap.
Omar brings together possibilities of allusion that the mainstream art establishment has yet to truly recognize.
This emphasis on family ties is "a possible allusion to the issue of defection," Lee noted.
Like Mr. Slimane's Saint Laurent (coincidentally or not), the allusion was to a traditional couture show.
This weekend, an allusion to Simpson pops up in an unlikely place: the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The allusion to Duncan's immobility is obvious, but, despite such catastrophic injuries, he is still living.
In an apparent allusion to the Trump administration's lack of interest in human rights issues, Mrs.
Are the cables a direct allusion to the Gordian Knot, hopelessly tangled, never to be unpicked?
Modi himself appeared to make a veiled allusion to Muslims resorting to violence during the protests.
The film's "temblores" — Spanish for "tremors" — are emblematic of the script's preference for allusion over depth.
His last words, an allusion to Schubert's "An die Musik," were simply "Holde Kunst": noble art.
It's in high school that boys' popularity is gained by the allusion of sexual prowess or experience.
Many see it as a simplistic description of his age, others an allusion to his spiritual maturity.
And not just because of the subtle allusion to film photography in the shape of the graphic.
An earlier version of this article misidentified the character who made a funny allusion to Ariadne's thread.
Whether or not those in the audience followed the allusion, they responded with wild whoops and applause.
Economists call this the "one-hoss shay" case, an allusion to a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
When it comes to metaphor and allusion, humans will always believe that they have the upper hand.
Vivian Morris, who's just flunked out of Vassar, probably doesn't get her own allusion; Gilbert surely does.
He loves this world so much, and that adoration suffuses every exchange, cinematic allusion and narrative turn.
When she's ranting, riffing and soliloquizing, a torrent of metaphor, allusion and alliteration spills from her mouth.
The large number of participants and the allusion to another sport became themes of the season. Sept.
Those three words convey no coy metaphor for passion or anger, no euphemistic allusion to military bombardment.
He appended the hashtag "DTS," an apparent allusion to his promise to "drain the swamp" in Washington.
There's something predatory about both the undisclosed allusion and the "life of privilege" it's made to illustrate.
For all its politics, the real pleasure of Mr Bartlett's garden is its dense thicket of literary allusion.
The lineup is an allusion to numerous Hitler-Trump comparisons made in response to the candidate's nationalistic ideology.
Just in case you don't get the allusion, he also sets up his bars in the same way.
" In an apparent Shakespearean allusion, he claims: "There is a rhyme to our terrorism, warfare, ruthlessness and brutality.
Sharee works at Hertz and dates a married man named Donnie, a kind of walking George Zimmerman allusion.
Clinton, Mr. Trump insisted that no allusion to Jews was intended and denounced reporters for drawing the connection.
Trump lashed out in a two-part Twitter statement Sunday, mixing a Watergate allusion with another McCarthy one.
A third suggested an explicit use for "dollars," an allusion to the recent American takeover of the team.
"Created equal," it says, a proud allusion to the Gettysburg Address and the Declaration of Independence before it.
A biological allusion that may surface with the red string, is that we all bleed the same color.
Raining fire down upon The Continent's thinly-veiled allusion to World War II-era Nazis classifies as stressful.
One student in the video told Jews to get in a shower, an allusion to Nazi gas chambers.
"Wait, you don't want the dribbler?" the TNT NBA analyst Charles Barkley quipped in an obvious allusion to Harden.
" (an allusion to Géricault's "Raft of the Medusa", which also meant "I'm dumbstruck"), became "We've been framed, by Jericho!
The acronym of Mr López Obrador's party is an allusion to La Virgen Morena of Guadalupe, Mexico's patron saint.
And of course, Matty-in-a-giant-phone thing is a pretty strong allusion to the idea that we're!
Artist Ardian Syaf included religious references and an allusion to recent Indonesian political demonstrations in an X-Men comic.
" And Toby, who is likely alive, makes an allusion to Spencer's angsty first-season maxim, "Hope breeds eternal misery.
Trump's ambiguous remarks that some interpreted as an allusion to violence prompted an enraged response from her via Twitter.
At the same time, it also becomes the artist's seal, an allusion to the signature stamps on Japanese prints.
Though he says he enjoyed the show, he claims it had too much "baggage" — an undeniable allusion to Trump.
The allusion feels particularly powerful in light of recent shootings at hospitals, schools, and other public-facing care centers.
Another issue is that, in the novel, Eggers could let allusion do a lot of the work for him.
Or was the smile just a clever allusion to the fact that the lady's last name, Giocondo, means "cheerful"?
The painting "Da Rita," stars Queen Victoria herself, an allusion to the choreographer Frederick Ashton, known for impersonating her.
The image could be an allusion to her son, or, perhaps, to some lost or misbegotten version of herself.
He said yes — and there was one allusion to him in the premiere in a joke by Dan Naturman.
Another salacious detail of the suit: There's an allusion to some photographic evidence of Trump and Clifford's alleged affair.
What it offers instead is manifold: the pleasures of allusion, of probing psychological insight, of extended bouts of wordplay.
Soon, "Rocket Man," an apparent allusion to Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, was trending on Twitter.
One member of the fraternity tells Jews to get in the shower, an apparent allusion to Nazi gas chambers.
"I repeat our rejection of totalitarian and genocidal ideologies, as well as any allusion to it," read the statement.
He also gives a great "kiss the ring" allusion, comparing his dad to both the Pope and the Godfather.
It was an allusion to a very sexual scene that comes on the very first episode of her show.
It was not immediately clear if the punches were an allusion to the episode or simply an awkward coincidence.
And He Built," in which she cites Jacob's Ladder as an allusion in Kiefer's densely packed photomontage "Sefer Hechaloth.
This is an allusion to Boys in the Sand, a 1971 pornographic film that marks the beginning of porn's heyday.
Swift made sure to thank Versace on Instagram, including a not-so-subtle allusion to one of her latest songs.
Its potency is so well known that it's often referred as "super-warfarin"—an allusion to the common blood thinner.
On the one hand, Ryder's Stranger Things casting is a perfect allusion to the decade the show holds so dear.
On the other is Tyrell as a black woman holding a papaya, a vague allusion to Caribbean slang for vagina.
Hannah rarely spoke about her fugue, but Barbara was touched by what she felt was an allusion to the experience.
The mystery is high-grade stuff, but this allusion makes one of the central messages of the book even clearer.
The band played a few bars of "Born in the U.S.A.," an allusion, presumably, to the fact that he wasn't.
It's bar trivia as plot, every eye-rolling Beatles allusion you've ever seen in film condensed into one aimless hodgepodge.
The most effective characteristic of 1 WTC may be its oblique allusion to the skin of the original Twin Towers.
The lyrics "takes you down" are written in bold black letters on the stairs — a playful allusion to the song.
Especially if you're a film fan, it's hard not to be just a little bit distracted by the frequent allusion.
The fight became known as the second Valentine's Day Massacre, an allusion to the storied 1929 gangland killings in Chicago.
The story has nothing overtly to do with Shakespeare, though its title is an allusion to Lady Macbeth's deadly plotting.
The hoax, called swatting in an allusion to SWAT teams, was never meant for the victim, Andrew Finch, 28, though.
French populists found hope, Mexican leaders expressed concern and Germany's vice chancellor offered an allusion to his country's dark past.
Even its glistening ingredient — crushed pearls — made a clever allusion to the earthy treasures — stones, shells — that so delighted Moore.
I often say that literature is the original internet — every allusion, footnote and reference is a hyperlink to another text.
"Talusan has the instincts of a storyteller, teasing out her narrative through images and allusion," our critic Jennifer Szalai writes.
The kind of profundity you find on social media feeds: an allusion to having a perspective, without actually committing to one.
The video is titled "BYE SISTER ...," a shady allusion to Charles's signature salute to fans on his own channel ("Hi, sisters").
Sarah!" and said in an allusion to the WHCA dinner: "Last year this night I was at a slightly different event.
But this allusion might be lost on visitors who haven't read the exhibition's press release or its small, attractive accompanying catalogue.
" And in an obvious allusion to Trump, she also praised Pope Francis for his "appeal that we build bridges, not walls.
The phrase made a clear allusion to the military dictatorship under Francisco Franco, when Catalan culture and language were systematically suppressed.
But for all of the trafficking in Nixonian allusion, does Trump's behavior measure up—or rather, down—to the 37th president's?
In an extraordinary allusion to the footage of Rodney King's beating, we see a woman's memory of Jeriko One's death, firsthand.
He added that Stone's common allusion to mafia figures and former President Nixon made him feel like he was being threatened.
Hispanidad itself was first introduced by Basque thinker Miguel de Unamuno as an allusion to the multiplicity of Spanish-speaking nations.
McCarthy's contribution is a comical caricature of women in the Wild West, an allusion to the industry that drives the city.
A different image shows a direct allusion to Zgierska's accident, portraying a tightly crumpled automobile reminiscent of a crushed soda can.
One member of the fraternity, Theta Tau, tells Jews to get in the shower, an allusion to the Nazis' gas chambers.
There will be no further mention of Swann until much later, but the allusion to Proust pervades this fine nostalgic novel.
The owners say the Hydrus name is an allusion to the Jet Star because it is the name of a constellation.
Denis district, but it is also an allusion to Victor Hugo's novel about the Terror of 1793, heyday of the guillotine.
Two years earlier, Plastic Jesus constructed a tiny wall around the star, an allusion to Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico.
There's no mention of President Trump, but an imagined movie pitch about a superhero who fights Mexicans might be an allusion.
The artist mixes pedagogy with allusion, image with argument, to celebrate the energies of this leveled playing field of the internet.
No hard liquor or drugs is present (absinthe, once a popular still life motif, served as a coded allusion to decadence).
But despite the Republicans' "mountain of debt" allusion, the White House proposals if adopted in full actually wouldn't add to the deficit.
On the trail, he referred to himself as "the prince of light and hope" – an obvious allusion to Trump's insults and rage.
The only allusion to his comments about slavery is in "Wouldn't Leave", where he packages his own flaws along with everyone else's.
For example, in the right panel, a naked man has his foot stuck in a jar, which is an allusion to sex.
Ron Johnson said, in an allusion to Patricia Smith's claim that Clinton lied to her about the cause of the Benghazi attacks.
Clinton condemned Mr. Trump's allusion on Wednesday to his intelligence briefings, where he suggested that officials were disillusioned with the Obama administration.
LOW Bratya Karavaevy, which means "Brothers Karavaevy" — presumably an allusion to "The Brothers Karamazov" — is popular with Moscow locals for a reason.
The allusion to phone sex underscores a framework central to the show: that "sex work" is not only cut-and-dry fucking.
This last item perches on a slope of earth littered with dead bees, forming an eerie and odd allusion to 9/11.
" In an apparent allusion to Fujimorismo's divisive image, PPK told supporters late on Sunday night: "We don't want a country in conflict.
Perhaps, in a pre-Game of Thrones, Law & Order: SVU universe, the allusion to rape would have been enough to shock viewers.
Trump often refers to Warren as "Pocahontas," an allusion to controversy about her heritage that she faced during her 2012 Senate campaign.
Their oeuvre — fantastically futuristic and layered with historical allusion — appeals in Europe more than America, where adventurous juxtaposition has never been popular.
It was left to Mr. Kaine to define this new, awkward role, with a sneering allusion to Mr. Trump's reality-TV past.
Mattis's call sign in the Marines is Chaos, and many people assume this is another allusion to battlefield mayhem, like Mad Dog.
Nabokov was a highbrow genre-changer, an originator of postmodern techniques: wordplay, stories constructed like puzzles, layers of allusion, tricks of misdirection.
"I think I'll wear red," McIlroy said in a humorous allusion to Woods, who has made that color his final-round signature.
That Sophia is here pronounced to rhyme with Mariah (Carey) may be interpreted as a jokey allusion to Ms. Wang's powerful soprano.
But then everything in the show can be interpreted as a jokey allusion, especially when Tom's servant, Partridge (Rene Ruiz), is around.
Netanyahu can be heard asking Pence how he's doing, and the vice president responds with an apparent allusion to the impeachment fight.
It has previously rejected the accusation of aiding and abetting a terrorist organization - an allusion to the Islamist insurgency in the northeast.
Brady says at the end, "I&aposm not going anywhere" in an apparent allusion to speculation about his future in the NFL.
Trump said Tuesday that he was "close" to having the Cabinet he wanted, an allusion that more news could be coming. Sen.
Skin and the body appears here a great deal, if not in the peeling layers of paint and fabric, then by allusion.
A 2007 U.S. diplomatic cable described the senior Choi as the "Korean Rasputin", an allusion to his perceived influence over Park Geun-hye.
Big Wave (2016) appears to be a clear allusion to the recent escalation of global warming—and to a surge in nationalist sentiment.
That's bleak, but the magic of Blackstar is its balance of these dense musings on mortality with cooling levity and wry literary allusion.
Still, the allusion suggested a new wave of vigilante deaths to come, on top of the more than 1,300 victims tallied so far.
It's a brooding allusion to Morrisroe's life, ended much too soon from AIDS-related complications, but lived to fullest on its own terms.
No, the problem with a Trumpified Caesar is that the conceit fails to illuminate our moment the way a good classical allusion should.
A new kind of zombie nicknamed the T-800 (an allusion to Terminator 2) has emerged, faster and much, much harder to kill.
To effectively torment and tease her, he now seems to feel compelled to throw in an allusion to shameful episodes from US history.
" She made a veiled allusion to the other agencies' process, noting that "major updates to the C.R.A. regulations happen once every few decades.
After the whistleblower's complaint emerged, Trump called the source "almost a spy," before apparently making a dark allusion to capital punishment for treason.
" He also said that the attackers made a reference to "MAGA country," an allusion to President Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again.
And the Kennedy allusion, fair or not, fanned complaints that Mr. Tunney preferred the companionship of elite Easterners over the company of Californians.
The allusion to a frame in "Untitled" (2004) is tweaked a bit with concave interruptions to the top right and lower left corners.
The descriptions 22010:20153 could be an allusion to another biblical verse or a potential release date for the album that no longer stands.
But when reminded that it was an allusion to the Nazi Party — which was officially called the National Socialist Party — she dismissed the comparison.
Harris's slogan, "For the People," which appears on all of her campaign signs and merchandise, is an allusion to her past as a prosecutor.
He also penned an episode of "Superstore" called "Labor" — a thinly veiled allusion to Walmart's efforts to discourage labor unions for its store workers.
That takes guts, if you'll pardon the allusion to a part of the body that for these women may never be the right size.
There's a graphic allusion to a terrible disease and suicide very early on that sets the tone, and things only get worse from there.
The snaking tape makes visual allusion to Michelangelo's "Fall of Man" in the Sistine Chapel, Satan's snake ensnaring Adam and Eve before their expulsion.
Offering his thoughts on love and marriage, Mr. Rushdie began with a wry allusion to his own oft-married life (four, but who's counting).
Ancient sculptures of figures who, as Elio's father puts it, "dare you desire them" recur throughout the movie, strengthening the allusion to the ancients.
" It's always the sort of allusion to "Oh, I would have I would have done something but you know, it's just like that sometimes.
Not many Post subscribers in 1961 were likely to miss the allusion to the child who'd gotten so much news coverage the previous autumn.
There's a mild but inescapable allusion to classical statuary, too, and in the surface's similarity to bone, an invocation of gleefully Surrealist grave robbing.
Taking the allusion literally, the judge, in his ruling, wrote that Mr. Ipek and a group of others conspired in "Smurf Village" in Ankara.
The tension between form and allusion can be felt most acutely in the disjunction between the smaller-scaled photographs and the even smaller videos.
Shrobe's odd, off-kilter assemblages often contain a figure in colonial period clothing (that's the Shonibare allusion), though their faces are almost always obscured.
"America has never stopped being great," she said at the Greater Imani Cathedral of Faith, her allusion to Donald J. Trump prompting a loud amen.
President Trump's much-criticized initial statement that "hatred, bigotry and violence" in Charlottesville came from "many sides" may have been an allusion to their presence.
Because of Taiwan's political status, the People's Republic of China considers any mention of or allusion to its independence as an offense against its sovereignty.
It was crafted by Democrats after Omar made comments that members of both parties interpreted as an allusion to "dual loyalty" stereotypes of American Jews.
The populists threatened for a moment to impeach him and even hinted at a march on Rome—an allusion to Benito Mussolini's blackshirts in 1922.
The Hamilton allusion is as much an argument for surrendering to Clinton as for preserving the purity of conservatism in exile should Trump ultimately win.
Yesterday, Trump tweeted a critique of social media in general, that is generally being regarded as a thinly-veiled allusion to his embattled supporter, Jones.
I mention these different echoes and associations because Haji Omar brings together possibilities of allusion that the mainstream art establishment has yet to truly recognize.
Bay also produced 2016's "The Purge: Election Year," a horror movie that featured an evil president that some saw as an allusion to Trump.
Its title is an allusion to Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, which told this history from the viewpoint of the oppressed.
One hawker claimed a button reading, "Bomb the shit out of ISIS" — an allusion to a Trump quote from last November — was his best seller.
The musical allusion in the work's title suggests that the assembled citations are meant as background for the dissonant solos of the poet's own voice.
Clinton was merely "pretending not to hate Catholics," an allusion to hacked correspondences from Clinton aides that appeared to include messages criticizing Roman Catholic conservatism.
But in an allusion to Mr. Christie's pugnacious style and the rancor of the Trump era, the new governor vowed to chart a different course.
Geometric cutouts perforate the restaurant's facade, an allusion to Dogon architecture in Mali, repeated indoors and on the ceiling over a semi-enclosed back garden.
The sculptural pieces have a reverent aspect — some by allusion, suggesting totems and altars; others literally, for instance a medicine bundle with sage and tobacco.
What Pound discovered in Noh echoed of his own developing Imagist aesthetic: suggestiveness, allusion, the static intensification of a single image that unifies each play.
Most often, Mr. Albarn's music has been a counterpoint to the rest of Gorillaz's presence: melancholy and introverted alongside Mr. Hewlett's antic, allusion-laced animations.
In his plays and screenplays, he became especially adept at skirting Communist censorship through allusion and metaphor, though less subtle means were not beneath him.
In a clear allusion to Edelman&aposs subsequent run-in with the law, one user wrote "Moments before disaster" in the comments of the post.
The phrase "great replacement" has been adopted by many in the white nationalist movement, although it is unclear whether Mr. Trump intended such an allusion.
" Waters also responded to Trump saying Thursday that the whistleblower and their sources are "spies" and his allusion to treason: "They're not spies, they're patriots.
In addition to its direct allusion to the god's deformity, the sculpture makes you aware of your own feet, negotiating their limited options in the space.
While most Japanese love songs hesitate to express emotions directly, this allusion to physical relationships encouraged women to take an active role in their own sexuality.
Although a direct view of the self-mutilation is apparently not shown, the allusion to such graphic self-harm upset many trans viewers of the film.
Worm killer Despite the preponderance of outdoorsmen in baseball, this is not a fishing reference but an allusion to pitchers who induce a lot of groundballs.
It's not making fun of Beyoncé and Lemonade, but it borrows its tropes and cadence in a recognizable enough way to make the mere allusion hilarious.
The ad made no mention or allusion to Mr. Sanders or a Democratic primary until the end, when it asked people to vote on April 19.
Other Gossip • Jamie's loss of the wooden snake he's held onto for years seems an obvious allusion to how he has lost important aspects of himself.
In lieu of feet, the piece has a tail, an assemblage of lumpen clay, perhaps an allusion to the demonization of the destitute and the displaced.
You could talk about faith in a sexy, metaphorical sense—it worked for Hozier—make a vague allusion, or if in doubt, chuck in that choir.
Both protagonists, the allusion suggests, grapple with the ghosts (du Maurier's literal) of first wives who they fear are more sophisticated and desirable than they are.
Mr. Sherman nods to the troubles migrants faced in cities; far upstage, three figures in mourning dress file by quickly, an allusion to a Lawrence painting.
The hat, which included a hidden cellphone pocket, was also sewn with a crown of thorns inside, an allusion to the president's assassination on Good Friday.
In an article last year, Roy referred to Kepel cuttingly as a "professional Rastignac," an allusion to a socially ambitious character in the novels of Balzac.
Despite its aspiration to topical relevance and the trendy allusion to Baldwin, this collage of dance theater is as thin as most postcards, and as banal.
The direct allusion to water in the top triangle's color and texture again raises the question of whether the title was the premise or an afterthought.
The actor's breast pocket was labeled, "VSKIJ," an allusion to the Russian director Konstantin Stanislavkij, the progenitor of what came to be known as method acting.
In the first debate, Trump questioned Clinton's "stamina," an allusion to her taking time away from the campaign trail to recover from pneumonia a few weeks prior.
Her cringe inducing allusion to, deep breath, "Trumped-up, trickle down" economics from their first round, on September 26 in New York, seemed so very far off.
Swedish people have taken to social media to express their confusion over President Donald Trump's allusion to a terror attack in their country that didn't actually happen.
"We support you in the face of the threats to sovereignty, to international law, or to the international order," he added in a clear allusion to Russia.
" (Uber calls its drivers "partners," an allusion to the fact that they are independent contractors and not full-time employees.) Stanard added, "Juno is for the drivers.
"People kept asking me, aren't you nervous about playing 11:30?" she said, according to Billboard, in a vague allusion to taking over for the pregnant Beyoncé.
We're not arguing that the show shouldn't address teen pregnancy, but if smoking is passé and a casual allusion to date rape is not, something is up.
The European Commission said Monday that "violence can never be an instrument in politics" but did not make any other allusion to the violence during the vote.
Their music video depicts a hapless man following the 44 rules of a tyrannical woman in a not-so-subtle allusion to life under Thailand's military junta.
Erdogan often refers to a "mastermind" in his speeches, a reference widely seen as an allusion to the West in general and the United States more specifically.
They're "Dursting" (you knew that Robert Durst stuff would come back, although Andrea jokes that it's Fred Durst — an allusion to the AP's mixing up the two).
By looking back at the past, and remembering its collapse, there was an implied allusion to the 16th-century's own religiously motivated mutilation of people and places.
The design wraps the building's facade in a six-story promenade — an allusion to the Mediterranean balcony — turning the museum's walls into indoor-outdoor spaces for art.
As if in allusion to that fact, her show this week was held in a warehouse adjoining the Prada Foundation, on the southern outskirts of the city.
The title completes the William Blake allusion of U21's 212 release, "Songs of Innocence," a subtle, poignant work whose music was overshadowed by an ungainly rollout.
In a sly allusion to the crude remarks Mr. Trump made on the tape, many marchers, women and men alike, wore pink "pussy hats" sporting cat ears.
"I just hope the pendulum is not going to swing entirely in the opposite direction," he said, in an allusion to the rise of the far right.
" In an apparent allusion to Syria, Putin said: "I think there are understandable reasons for these intensive contacts (with Israel), given the complicated situation in the region.
In a sly allusion to the crude remarks Mr. Trump made in the recording, many marchers, men and women alike, wore pink "pussyhats," complete with cat ears.
She carried a sign that read, "Russia will be free, whoever didn't understand will get it," the second half an allusion to a favorite phrase of Kadyrov's.
His farewell statement waxes rapturously about his love for the game, yet ends with a sly allusion to mental disabilities it may have already doomed him to.
He's what I call a cultural allusion, an easy reference to something that everybody will recognize so that you don't have to go into any kind of detail.
If the mouth enables the voice, and the voice is the carrier of personal agency and expressive will, these works invite an allusion to speaking truth to power.
In an allusion to Mr. Bloomberg's attempt as mayor to ban large sodas, the slide on his 2016 plans was illustrated with an image of a Big Gulp.
Now, this is now showing that Mueller&aposs original indictment was nothing more than an allusion to make it seem like there was some sort of Russia collusion.
Myanmar's constitution and the political power it enshrines for the military, he said, is "important for the security of the entire race," an allusion to the Buddhist majority.
In this case, the phrase offers little more than a nod and a wink, balancing the future of thousands of jobs on the allusion of back-door negotiations.
This is an allusion to Dorfman, a lawyer from Atlanta whose final two contestants were a Wisconsin boy (Nick Viall) and a beefy former baseball player (Josh Murray).
"Jerry has been generous enough to let me drive an awful lot of his collection," Mr. Feresten said, before finding himself unable to resist making a "Seinfeld" allusion.
Some saw a reference to the angels which hovered over the holiest part of the Jerusalem temple; others saw a symbolic allusion to Christ and the Holy Spirit.
Oh, and he killed his wife on a boat and got away with it, in a clear allusion to Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood's fatal excursion at sea.
Obviously the headline was meant to be clever, and the phrase has been in the news so much that surely Times readers understood the allusion to Trump criticism.
In the past films featuring Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, we get a general sense, an allusion to this character's pain, but in "Logan" we experience it far more viscerally.
The notion that flukes resemble an angel's wingspread is a troublesome allusion in the context of a subject that has borne more than its share of mawkish hyperbole.
Is the comment about women an allusion to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, or a rebuke of Trump, who has been accused by numerous women of harassment and assault?
Is the latter an allusion to the many Gospel stories featuring the sea, and is the lamppost a sign for the equivalence often drawn between God and light?
The sweet smarts of Mitchell's first movie, "The Myth of the American Sleepover" (treated to a bit of auto-allusion in "Silver Lake") aren't much in evidence here.
"The allusion to the clock is a really good reminder that we don't have to accept that something isn't working," said Kate Hogan, the Warren County district attorney.
There's no actual mention or even a vague allusion to Coachella in the track, but perhaps the reference is less a tribute to the festival than a clue.
This post is more than just shade, though; the allusion to the problematic phrase "go Black and never come back" and Unglert's seeming endorsement of it has fans upset.
She said her state's past, like the country's, wasn't only "rich" but also "complicated" — an unmistakable allusion to the racial hatred that has proved especially indefatigable in South Carolina.
The name — used by some of the ringleaders, may be an allusion to Basil Brush, a beloved glove puppet and mischievous red fox on a British children's television series.
The change comes after continued controversy, with the name's reported allusion to the addictive nature of crack cocaine, which decimated mostly African-American communities in the 1980s and '90s.
Given the circumstances, it's natural to assume that the allusion to a natural disaster is a metaphor for the current "weird time" (as he describes it) in Brad's life.
In a comical bit of allusion, the "Fresh" dance is a rendition of Alfonso Ribeiro's infamous "Carlton dance" performed on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air twenty years before.
The humans welcome them at first, but soon learn to despise them, separating them into a large, filthy slum zone—an obvious allusion to South Africa's history of apartheid.
They run a website that refers to Santa Fe as the "City of Holy Faith," which is a colonial allusion that invokes Santa Fe as a Spanish, Catholic bastion.
He first used the motif in the 2007 digital montage "Lemme Skool U," and the allusion to racist imagery takes on new meaning in our supposedly post-racial era.
The first statement, released Thursday, made no mention of sexual assault, and included a not-so-vague allusion to the language of a certain sexual assault-endorsing president elect.
Even a tactful allusion — one that said, essentially, he hadn't always been a model husband — could easily have seemed like he was building himself up by tearing her down.
That was an allusion to Israeli military strikes in Syria, carried out against suspected Hezbollah or Iranian arms depots or in retaliation for attacks from the Syrian-held Golan.
One float bore a canoe and a sign that read "Come Hell or High Water," an allusion to widespread and damaging flooding in parts of Wisconsin in recent months.
SLANT RHYMES (La Fabrica, $45) is their attempt to chart some of these cross-influences, although, as the titular allusion to Emily Dickinson suggests, in a decidedly nonliteral way.
President Trump's abrupt dismissal last week of the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, and his subsequent allusion to taped conversations with Mr. Comey continued to roil Washington on Sunday.
In the case of Michael Winterbottom's new movie, a satire starring a frequent collaborator, Steve Coogan, it's less an allusion than a direct, blatant and bitter statement of theme.
Though Bernstein's "Serenade" was inspired by his reading of Plato's Symposium, a dialogue in praise of love, he cautioned listeners not to read too much loftiness into the allusion.
The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, is expected to conjure his powers of allusion on Thursday with uncertainty over Brexit still looming large on the horizon.
It was a link to a YouTube clip of the infamous "jump the shark" scene from Happy Days, an allusion that requires pop-cultural knowledge and a measure of interpretation.
Though no plot details are given away, showing Doug with the shovel might be a cruel allusion to a rather dark scene from the last season — click here for spoilers.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei congratulated Soleimani on the defeat of Islamic State and said it was a blow against Israel, America and its allies, an allusion to Saudi Arabia.
That fervor broke into the mainstream media with the frenzy last spring began by President Donald Trump's apparent allusion to a terrorist incident "last night in Sweden" that never occurred.
The group—whose name combines both the Ottoman and the German empires in allusion to its many members with Turkish background—was virtually unknown to the public until very recently.
There was some allusion to that, but like I said, the movie is really whatever you want it to be, and I always try to not infringe on audience reactions.
Then, he would compose a 31-syllable poem on some aspect of nature, with an allusion to a classical Chinese poem and a hint at the depth of his passion.
Kavanaugh explained from the bench that the 1977 precedent was "not a get-out-of-court-free card for monopolistic retailers," an apparent allusion to the popular board game Monopoly.
The name of the series is an allusion to a line in the Bible in which the star Wormwood falls from the sky and turns waters of the Earth bitter.
" Asked if that was an allusion to Donald J. Trump's proposal to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, Mr. Tranter said, "That phrase is definitely on purpose.
He was making a muffled allusion to claims on the right that Saleha Mahmood Abedin, a sociologist who is a dean at at University in Pennsylvania, is a covert jihadist.
Andreas Nachama, the director of the Topography of Terror, said at the opening that the exhibit bore "a sad relevance," an allusion to the rise of right-wing populism today.
On occasion, he has worn a black cowboy hat and boots around the E.P.A. office, a move that some colleagues considered a lighthearted allusion to Mr. Pruitt's home state, Oklahoma.
It's a bit over complicated, and the allusion to Baba Yaga ends up putting the focus on the aging body rather than on simply how interesting and varied embodiment is.
Apart from a brief allusion to a possible love story, the show rested entirely on its technology, which grew less and less interesting as the 80-minute production dragged on.
"THIS is so unnecessary Trump-PENCE2020," Ms. Conway wrote, an allusion to the rumors that Ms. Haley had been positioning herself to replace Mr. Pence on the ticket in 2020.
On Thursday, left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore tweeted an image of The New York Times front page reporting the Clinton-era strikes, in an obvious allusion to Trump's current actions.
Jennifer Brock, 55, from Scranton, Pa., held a pink sign that read, "When they go nasty, we go classy," a hybrid allusion to Mr. Trump's "nasty woman" attack on Mrs.
It was a motif that appeared throughout his Off-White collection, in a nod to racing flags, an allusion to the tracks the designer grew up around in suburban Illinois.
Case in point: his bear hug of House Speaker Paul Ryan tonight, followed by a quick allusion to their agreement on expanding the earned income tax credit for childless workers.
There is a clear visual allusion to Christ, stretched out on an imaginary crucifix, and an overtone of sacrifice, perhaps indicating that we as a society have sacrificed our culture.
It is precisely this tense, uncanny leitmotif of repeated death — of intoxicating Pop, of emotional conditioning, of painting, of capital punishment — that permeates Warhol's best pictures and charges them with allusion.
"We found our fifty shades," wrote the airline in an apparent allusion to the Fifty Shades of Grey series, suggesting that this plane doesn't just have sex like a regular plane.
This is the "Red Queen" hypothesis, an allusion to a character in "Through the Looking-Glass" who had to run as fast as she could to stay in the same place.
Over the course of a few decades, the master filmmaker has shown us everything from giant robots and allusion-packed horror fantasies to gory, gothic romances and hulking, red-hued superheroes.
Back then the band was just him playing guitar and yawping into a boombox, telling vivid stories of weirdos and outcasts that were packed to the brim with metaphor and allusion.
A giant poster hung on the façade of the office of the journalists' union depicting a shadowy bin Salman carrying a chain saw, an allusion to the reported dismemberment of Khashoggi.
Reflecting the stakes and the tension about the outcome, the tone of the campaigning remained negative to the end, complete with invocations of economic ruin and an allusion to the Nazis.
In an ecclesiastical allusion, this saint holds a model of Al-Hadid's childhood home in Ohio; in typical religious iconography, saints might hold models of dedicated churches as offerings to Christ.
He caught up on gossip from home, talked about movies he'd seen, and sometimes, just barely and mostly via vague allusion, the pressure and terror he was subjected to over there.
The scene has been interpreted as an allusion to the Whitney controversy, but it conveys nothing either so pathetic as a plea for sympathy or so defensive as a petulant irony.
What gives Takenaga's work a deeper resonance than one encounters in much contemporary abstraction is her allusion to of a world under constant pressure and in a state of relentless change.
Hand-pistol signs became ubiquitous everywhere he went — an allusion to the candidate's draconian proposals to curb violent crime by making it easier for the police to gun down suspected criminals.
And her allusion to my French naturalization meant that I wasn't a 'true, good' French person, as if to be a 'true, good' French person you have to renounce your origins.
His exhortations and implications of blame were nonpartisan: conservatives might have heard their denial of science called out, while liberals might have been stung by the allusion to fair-weather activism.
Teachers and parents in Hauser's community were concerned over the contents of the book, which depicts Pepe and Pede fighting with a bearded alligator named Alkah, a seeming allusion to Allah.
The recent Christmas show included jokes about "making people go viral" (an allusion to "Be More Chill"), and managed to be at once ever-so-winkingly politically incorrect and super-woke.
And he touted his record of putting forth policy plans, a subtle allusion to Ms. Warren, whose ranking in the polls rose as she released a steady stream of policy proposals.
Any bad thing you want to bring up, you can link to Capone's name, so he's become an universal cultural allusion; you just compare the person to Al Capone and everyone understands.
When I finally reached the front of the gathering around the salad bar, I found myself face to face with the Sorting Hat, the one clear allusion to my favorite fantasy series.
One of the alt-right's founding tenets was the concept of "red pilling" — an allusion to the "red pill" in the movie "The Matrix," which makes people see reality as it is.
The allusion to Thelonious Monk in line 9 is not misplaced; Young keeps things skittishly off-kilter in his idiosyncratic way of playing his phrases across the bar of the line break.
The new exhibition that no one was there to see was titled "Give Melania a Voice," an apparent unsubtle allusion to the fact that we rarely hear the first lady say anything.
"Iso Joe" became the moniker; "Iso" a reference to his method, totally out of step with modern trends, and "Joe" an allusion to his extraordinarily dull existence on and off the court.
Pragmatist Iranian President Hassan Rouhani echoed Khamenei, saying Iran and Russia together could tackle "regional terrorism" - an allusion to Sunni Muslim armed groups hostile to Iran, Assad and many other Arab states.
Both recalled a moment when Felix dropped a glove on the ground in front of Simpson and made a wisecrack about it fitting, an allusion to the famous moment during his trial.
The use of rainbow imagery here is a clear allusion to the Bifröst in Norse mythology — a burning rainbow bridge that links the world of mortals to the realm of the gods.
What set the show apart this year — from both its previous seasons and most of its peers — is the use of the space, place, framing, allusion and mood to house that narcissism.
"Nolli's Orders" (2012), the show's largest piece and anchor, makes a soft allusion to Bernini's "Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi," displayed in the Piazza Navona in Rome, though the reference has dried up.
It's an allusion to the bland family sitcoms of the nineteen-eighties, when syrupy, anti-racist "very special episodes" dominated prime-time comedy (think "Family Ties"), treating color blindness as a virtue.
His allusion to holding a "weapon," in particular, may have been a veiled reference to the American accusations that Iran is seeking a nuclear weapon to hold more powerful rivals at bay.
In it, Bolaño enfolds the adventures of Jan, Remo and José Arco — along with Jan's sci-fi letters and digressions — into a rich and wry second narrative, packed with enigmatic, funny allusion.
The flag featured the Texas lone star against a backdrop of 14 red and white stripes, an allusion to a signature white supremacist slogan addressing their goal of preserving the white race.
The Dutch composer Michel van der Aa proves a master of allusion in his chamber opera "Blank Out," which received its North American premiere at the Park Avenue Armory on Thursday evening.
Black kale, an allusion to medieval tapestries and William Morris prints, might be the backdrop for fluorescent pink dahlias, a nod to the cultivars that populated the jardins ouvriers of postwar France.
We have weekly company and team meetings: there was absolutely no recent mention or even allusion to Everlane cutting back in production or that lay offs were something they were looking into.
Citrus is the closest white Rioja comes to fruit, and, really, that is more of an allusion to its lively acidity than it is to a distant family member of the grape.
"Nous ne sommes pas prêts à vendre ce projet, surtout à des personnes qui se sont permis d'occuper illégalement le site durant plusieurs jours", ajouta Mme Leclerc, faisant allusion à Shannon Cain.
Thomas Jefferson recalled a contemporary allusion to George Washington and a Supreme Court justice being butchered by the French Terror device coming up at a cabinet meeting—to the rage of Washington.
I'm pulling up to the next nuptials in silk formal, ready to make out with whatever person gets drunk enough to mistake this for some sort of allusion to being a cougar.
After tweaking how it displays search results for products in Europe Google was later accused of creating a 'fake' price comparison site scheme — to create the allusion of a thriving market in Europe.
Rouhani referred to the "adventurism of some inexperienced princes in the region"- an allusion to Iran's arch geopolitical rival, Saudi Arabia - and said France could play a positive role in easing the situation.
It inspired the Lees, then professors at Baylor College of Medicine, to name her "Yuna," meaning "snow girl" in a Korean dialect, with the middle name "Heidi" for its allusion to snowy peaks.
In that timespan, Bill Taylor (the top US diplomat in Ukraine) mentioned that Zelensky was worried about being used "as an instrument in Washington domestic, reelection politics" — an apparent allusion to the investigations.
Responding to the Sinai attack, Prime Minister Sherif Ismail stressed the need for countries to unite against those who support terrorism and to "dry up their sources of funding," an allusion to Qatar.
The allusion to that strange sound was meant to sum up Germany's open-ended invitation to all comers from the Middle East to relieve the country's labor shortages and boost the economy's competitiveness.
It mentions "same treatment of illegal aliens, regardless of country of origin" — an allusion to changing the law that prevents Border Patrol agents from summarily deporting unaccompanied children from countries other than Mexico.
"Flying Monkeys" are friends of the narcissist sent to communicate with the child on their behalf, an allusion to L. Frank Baum's Wicked Witch of the West who sends her minions as messengers.
A 2007 U.S. diplomatic cable described the senior Choi as the "Korean Rasputin", an allusion to a close adviser to the last tsar of Russia and the perceived influence over Park Geun-hye.
It's the kind of regional homage that one might find at the fair, but also an allusion to the false impression of household bliss that the mastery of the "domestic arts" might imply.
The visuals also touch on the anxieties of city living, displaying a modern housing unit adorned with the 'Fedders' logo—an allusion to the cheaply-made housing complexes that enrage real-world Brooklynites.
Their first album — titled simply "Planxty" but often called the Black Album because of its cover, an allusion to the Beatles' so-called White Album released a few years earlier — was a revelation.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz told Ynet TV that Netanyahu and Esper would discuss "everything that happens in the space between Syria, Lebanon, Iraq," an allusion to the often clandestine Israeli military campaign.
In 1979, in "The Madwoman in the Attic," she and Sandra M. Gilbert redirected the reader's central focus from the Jane Eyres to the Bertha Masons of literature (to take the title's allusion).
Lockett made a basketball shot, then emphatically stepped over the prone body of David Moore, an allusion to a disdainful move pulled by Allen Iverson over Tyronn Lue in the 2001 N.B.A. Finals.
The mingling of disparate voices, sensual descriptions of nature, and a web of literary and Biblical allusion establish a feeling of timelessness that is set in contrast to the gruesome realities of war.
Zhao's Blood Heir—the novel that inspired Soave's allusion to book burnings, the novel Singal suggested would never be released thanks to a controversy that "derailed" Zhao's career—will be out in November.
Of his many accomplishments, one of the contributions the composer is most known for is the Shepard–Risset glissando, a sound construction which creates the auditory allusion of a continuously rising or descending pitch.
The press release's mention of Los Angeles as a synthetic landscape leads viewers to believe that the works will be in conversation with the city, yet this allusion isn't realized in the exhibition itself.
He accused Mr Khalilzad of maneuvering to become a "viceroy" of a future caretaker regime—an allusion to the common belief that Mr Khalilzad himself somehow seeks to rule the country of his birth.
And some of what is sold under the poetic street name of Abu Hilalain (Father of the Two Crescent Moons: an allusion to the entwining Cs on each pill) contains little but concentrated caffeine.
Some have accused the book of "queer baiting," which refers to the allusion of characters' queer identities in order to appeal to a queer fan base without actually following through and making it canon.
But the hosts asked him to "please vacate and go sit in the right section," turning a bit about Hollywood hierarchies and the Golden Globes seating chart into a thinly veiled allusion to segregation.
That was an allusion to an earlier proposal to reserve all recording of parliamentary sessions for five selected TV stations and limiting the number of journalists allowed in parliament to two per media outlet.
President Obama in particular liked to echo phrases previously uttered by figures like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr. President Trump's inaugural speech also had an allusion but an unusual one.
The vice president emphasized the growing security relationship with India, both in the fight against terrorism and to ensure unimpeded movement of commerce - an allusion to shared concerns about China's territorial claims in Asia.
"In what was potentially an allusion to LeBron James' incendiary comments on the NBA-China feud, O'Neal said the conflict had emboldened some people to speak "when they don't know what they're talking about.
The allusion is to Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, and Mike Tyson — three African Americans who were once celebrated media figures in the entertainment and sports worlds, two of which have since fallen from grace.
Musk said he hoped Tuesday's achievement would encourage a new "space race" by private ventures and other countries, an allusion to the 1960s Cold War contest between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Trump went on to make an oblique allusion to the case of his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and agreed to cooperate with Mueller's probe.
Large blue letters projected over the entrance to the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Monday night read "Pay Trump Bribes Here," an allusion to questions about President Trump's business affairs with foreign governments.
As part of the ritual, each player stops about halfway down the red carpet to sign a large replica of a gold-painted railroad spike, an allusion to Atlanta's history as a railroad terminus.
The dish is an allusion to the two-tone pescado a la talla served at Contramar in Mexico City, itself derived from huevos divorciados, a breakfast of two fried eggs beneath two contrasting salsas.
"To be sure, there were hawkish hints in Yellen's swan song, with allusion to solid (rather than merely improving) jobs, household spending and business investment," Mizuho Bank economist Vishnu Varathan wrote in a note.
To Spicer's critics, the Emmys appearance was particularly incendiary, with Spicer making a joke about the crowd size at the awards show — an allusion to his earlier tantrum-esque defense of Trump's inauguration crowd.
For instance, for her 1976 documentary "Daguerréotypes," an allusion to the Paris street where she lived, she powered her equipment with an electric cord plugged into her home, limiting her range to its length.
Still, Ryan argued that for Obamacare, "the worst is yet to come" — an allusion to the claim that Obamacare's marketplaces are collapsing, so the law will fall apart on its own in due time.
This allusion to collaboration is materialized, literally, by his work with groups of artisans from various locales — most notably, with Afghan women — who produce objects according to the briefs and materials he provides them.
The professor actually happened to be talking Donald Trump in class yesterday, specifically how the candidate made that weird allusion to "Second Amendment people" many took to be a jest about killing Hillary Clinton.
" He makes a tasteless but brilliant OJ allusion when he talks about getting drunk and wanting to have sex: "vodka and OJ got your boy feeling like OJ / put on a glove and stab something.
The conference's website was allegedly hacked on Monday to show an image of the crown prince brandishing a sword above a kneeling Khashoggi, an obvious allusion to beheading videos from terrorist groups like ISIS.[Reuters]
The allusion to utopias refers to the political origins of Latin American conceptualism: a Cold War materialization of the centuries-long dream of pan-American unity, anti-imperialist resistance, and the right to self-determination.
Wells' allusion to obeying authorities is often attributed to a passage in Romans 13 where the Apostle Paul declares Christians "must obey those who rule over you" because they have been placed there by God.
For his new seasonal album, John Legend teamed with Kelly Clarkson (above in 2018) for an updated version of the 75-year-old holiday standard, removing lyrics that some considered an allusion to date rape.
The disparaging nickname "Pocahontas" is an allusion to the fact that the Massachusetts senator has historically identified as being of Native American ancestry, a claim she has apologized for and ceased making in recent months.
One scene in the movie features a character pantomiming masturbation for an extended period of time, though Louis CK told the Times in September that it was not intended as an allusion to the rumors.
The prosecutor's statement said a total of 138 suspects had been referred to courts on various charges, including contacts with a "foreign power" - an allusion to Iran, possession of weapons and attacks on security forces.
The second, which included an allusion to Megan and Graham having oral sex, was cut entirely, a decision that Babbitt called sexist, especially given the fact that a similar joke involving men was deemed acceptable.
In April China complained about an online allusion to Taiwan as a country by organisers of the Man Booker prize for fiction (they eventually chose a fudge, listing the island instead as a "country/territory").
Episode 133 Who would've guessed that an off-putting prison doctor in max would be the character to provide the most thematically apt pop culture allusion for this season of Orange is the New Black?
Gervais took one last jab at Gibson at the end of the telecast, choosing the parting words: "From myself and Mel Gibson, Shalom," an allusion to the actor's infamous antisemitic rants from that same night.
I'm not sure what "e-race" means, but I think it is a portmanteau of "electronic" and "race," an allusion to the semi-constant roasting she's received online since being exposed as a white woman.
Clinton said in her speech she was breathing "a big sigh of relief," a joking allusion both to the 2008 outcome, as well as polls that had predicted she might fare worse this time around.
Three of Europe's finest alchemists of allusion — Colette Ballou (Ballou PR), Joanna Kirk (Joanna Kirk PR) and Katy Turner (Multiple) — will share their tips on how to be a signal in a world of noise.
Although it uses "Hansel and Gretel" as a loose model, just as "Briar Rose" used "Sleeping Beauty," the fantastical element operates mostly at the level of allusion, and the book unfolds as a historical novel.
Le premier ministre faisait allusion à un rassemblement près de Reims que les organisateurs décrivaient comme un "Camp d'été Dé-Colonial", où des personnes appartenant à des minorités pouvaient se réunir pour évoquer la discrimination.
Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, would return to the White House "because you, after all, are worried about sexual predators," an apparent allusion to Mr. Clinton's affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
" It was an allusion to recent comments made by the conservative pundit Laura Ingraham, who scolded basketball players who had criticized President Trump to keep their political opinions to themselves and "shut up and dribble.
The later sections of the play feel contrived in a way that nothing that comes before does; he is determined to let a concept — the allusion to hope in that poem's title — rule the action.
The collection also includes military-style garments, such as trench coats and bomber jackets, that have been turned into draped, off-the-shoulder styles reminiscent of Buddhist monks' robes — an allusion to the Vietnam War.
I joined a tour that began in the vineyard out front, where our guide joked about the winery's "lakefront property," an allusion to the cataclysmic Missoula floods that deposited local sediments favorable to growing grapes.
This turned the region into a powder keg that one scholar called "one country, two nationalisms" — an allusion to the "one country, two systems" policy that was meant to protect Hong Kong's status within China.
It's as if Mr. White made a list of parameters from the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army": An allusion to Native American lore, a big beat, a huge riff and something a crowd can shout.
Mr. Nézet-Séguin's aim for the Met, he said, was a new era of optimism through a "quiet revolution," an allusion to a 1960s social movement in Quebec against the strictures of the Catholic Church.
Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, including criticism of the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Israeli government, and an allusion to foreign allegiance that was seen by some as anti-Semitic.
The allusion to totems, though, is particularly fitting as Voyeur Voyager Forager Forester feels like a tribute to the refrigerator of yesteryear and the cheesy design aesthetics now replaced with modern, sleek exteriors and interiors.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore famously derided the G-20 as "clothes without an emperor" – an allusion to the rather stilted group photo of besuited leaders who so often failed to act on their pledges.
" But there it was, the last careless allusion in a speech that was full of them, gleaming like a soiled diamond in the rough: "The answer is that modern cliché: to keep trying to fail better.
He said that he had come to free them from the scourge of socialism—an allusion to his left-leaning predecessors Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, who had governed from 22017 to 21977.
My project is the same project that I believe Pablo Neruda was pursuing, which was a direct encounter with nature, unburdened by the history of allusion and the history of symbolism, and the history of footnotes.
Last June, Corbyn compared Israel to "self-styled Islamic states or organizations" — an allusion his staff insisted was to Muslim nations rather than the terrorist Islamic State, although Pakistan is not "self-styled" and ISIS is.
Fars reported that the missiles had text written on them in Hebrew saying, "Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth," an allusion to the famous declaration by the former Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
This is strong language, and Justice Sotomayor closed with an allusion to the words Eric Garner uttered 11 times in 2014 while he was suffocating in a police chokehold in New York City: "I can't breathe".
After more inquiry, my friend told me he was convinced to go lectin-free after receiving not-so-great news about his health, and an ominous allusion to what he called, "the big C," or cancer.
But as Alex Abad-Santos explained for Vox when it was released, Mysterio's specific allusion to a multiverse, as the different versions of Earth that he mentions are collectively known, was huge for comic book readers.
But Jonathan Cohen, the acting American ambassador, reminded fellow delegates that resolution 20151 "provides a mechanism for the Council to address significant nonperformance by Iran of its nuclear commitments," an apparent allusion to the snapback provision.
The allusion to Bass and his work with Hitchcock is a terrific fit for "Look What You Made Me Do," a song predicated on the idea that Swift has finally had enough and is striking back.
CG: Among your "Found and Collected Items," Jason, is a cropped image of an old five-dollar silver certificate that featured the Hunkpapa Chief Running Antelope, an allusion to the recent Harriet Tubman $20 bill controversy.
I think brand names are just an allusion, yes its cool to have very expensive clothes but what is the difference between a $300 white shirt from Gucci compared to a $20 shirt from the Gap?
There was one allusion to the 2011 uprising: The mosque where the funeral took place is named after retired Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who headed the military council that took power after Mr. Mubarak stepped down.
The organization renamed its magazine Rumiyah , or Rome—an allusion to the prophecies foretelling the fall of the West and a signal that the Islamic State operations may increasingly shift from inside the caliphate to outside.
The rug was hung in reverse "because the world has been turned on its head," Mr. Rahim said as he sprayed it with rose water, in an allusion to the Rose Garden at the White House.
The exhibition's title concept, an allusion to Robert Smithson's 1968 essay "A Sedimentation of the Mind," captures the sense in which visual art can function as a metaphorical geologic record of human activity and its byproducts.
So we're here to discuss an incident that happened recently, she would begin, making only a vague allusion to the matter at hand before stepping back to allow people to tell the story in their own way.
On August 29th, Mr Long, the current FEMA boss, said: "This is not the Superdome," an allusion to the dangerous and unhygienic conditions at a sports arena in New Orleans that became a shelter after Katrina struck.
It's sort of unclear if this is her attempt to rewrite his death through fiction, or more of an allusion to a great big gorilla enclosure in the sky intended as comforting words to a dying animal.
"My Cherry Blossom Baby," the mother of three, 37, wrote alongside the cute snapshot, in a subtle allusion to both her daughter's outfit as well as the cherry-blossom-themed baby shower she enjoyed before Chi's Jan.
Argentine media are closely following the twists and turns of the corruption allegations that have become known as the 'K money road', an allusion to Fernandez's deceased husband and ex-president Nestor Kirchner and their 'Kirchnerista' movement.
Favela's exuberant installation made of piñata papers, "Fridalandia" (143), is underpinned by his interpretation of canonical landscape painting by Mexican artist José María Velasco (1840–1912) and an allusion to Hollywood's depiction of Frida Kahlo's infamous courtyard.
Palin piled on in her tweet, adding, "Remember I can keep an eye on them from here," an allusion to a 2008 interview in which she said her time in Alaska gave her insight into Russian actions.
Admittedly, this appraisal doesn't come from a "gladiator," an allusion to the show's die-hard loyalists, but rather somebody who thought it was bad in the early going, and tolerable once it adapted and embraced the crazy.
Guven was initially detained on Friday on suspicion of trying to discredit those investigating Gulen's network and Anadolu said the court ruled that the headline was an allusion to what would happen to those who investigated Gulen.
Mr. Trump was suddenly the one leaving attacks undelivered: He insinuated that he had planned "to say something extremely rough to Hillary, to her family" — most likely an allusion to Bill Clinton's history of infidelity — before reconsidering.
"I think it was actually 1918 that the Capitol was actually closed for health reasons," Senate Rules Committee Chair Roy Blunt told CNN in an allusion to the Spanish flu pandemic that took place at the time.
And then you've got false flags ... Every article that you've read about misinformation on YouTube and Twitter and Facebook is all sort of baked into this, either explicitly or at least there's an allusion to it. Yeah.
All at once I saw an old man without qualities," reads one of Lahiri's masterly translations, as she nails the inward, neurotic tone of Starnone's source and spears an allusion to Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities.
A group of men and women, some garbed in red robes and white bonnets — an allusion to The Handmaid's Tale, the Margaret Atwood book and television series — demonstrated outside the senator's home in Bangor over the weekend.
Swift's fans will declare Look What You Made Me Do the greatest song ever made, her enemies will drag it endlessly online, and critics will pour over every breath, word, allusion and production quirk in the song.
Monument Around, a painting by Zach Bruder, depicts a masked character holding a grim reaper-esque scythe and a radiant shoe while an hourglass trickles down—perhaps an allusion to the time we lose in airport rituals.
There was this allusion to Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan: America has been through big changes before — wars and depression, the influx of immigrants, workers fighting for a fair deal, and movements to expand civil rights.
Nearby, Gqunta's "Divider," (2016) a snaking curtain of beer bottles hanging from knotted fabric, is a ghostly allusion to the sordid colonial patrimony of alcoholism, but also the homemade petrol bombs used in the armed struggle against apartheid.
During an interview after a match last weekend, Ng appeared on a livestream wearing goggles and a gas mask — an allusion to months of protests in Hong Kong, where demonstrators have taken to the streets wearing similar gear.
" In the most often quoted line — an allusion to the poet Virgil — Mr. Powell said, "as I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood.
Later, Deadpool rolls up outside the mansion and holds up a boom box that blasts Peter Gabriel music, an allusion that paints him as Say Anything's romantic lead, Lloyd Dobler, and Colossus as the object of his affections.
He's not as thin as he was when he acquired his name, which is an allusion to Dhalsim (a character from the video game Street Fighter), but he still has fire in his mouth every time he sings.
" The President's allusion to force, said Kelsey Davenport, the director for nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association, "only invites a provocative response from North Korea and risks a return to the tit-for-tat escalation of 2017.
" We're left wondering what Issler's "unsaid fashion rule" is, an allusion she followed up with a direct dig at Zarrabi: "This girl has now created a hostile work environment because she has a sad body image of herself.
Evstropov said it was conceived as an allusion to 19th century Japanese artist Kobayashi Eitaku's print "Body of a Courtesan in Nine Stages," about the inevitable victory of nature and decay over human assignments of beauty and value.
Craftsmen in the city of Zlatoust, east of Moscow, have released a limited series of silver and gold commemorative coins, engraved with "In Trump We Trust" - an allusion to the phrase on U.S. banknotes "In God We Trust".
In an email to supporters, Mr. Sanders's campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, chided Mr. Biden for ending the day "in the home of a corporate lobbyist," an allusion to Mr. Biden's fund-raiser in Philadelphia with a Comcast executive.
The Broken Earth trilogy is a work of allegory and allusion, not a straightforward political parable in the vein of "Planet of the Apes" or Stephen Vincent Benét's "By the Waters of Babylon" (great as that story is).
" King dismissed Mr. O'Dell, writing in a July 21963 letter to him that "any allusion to the left brings forth an emotional response which would seem to indicate that S.C.L.C. and the Southern Freedom Movement are Communist inspired.
"I was always intrigued," Mr. Nadella said about Mr. Schultz's stated mission to "build a company my father never got to work at," an allusion to the struggles his father faced as a truck driver without health coverage.
It inflects the display of four sculptures whose visible debts to Robert Gober's surreal conflations of objects and Charles LeDray's miniaturization of the everyday are balanced by the artist's own strange sense of bricolage, scale and mordant allusion.
AT&T even characterized the government's case as like "a Persian cat with its fur shaved...alarmingly pale and thin," an allusion to another case that nevertheless drew eyebrows given the fact that Delrahim was born in Iran.
The allusion to Snowden may reflect a shift for Gates, who told Rolling Stone in 2014, "I think he broke the law, so I certainly wouldn't characterize him as a hero," adding that he had no admiration for Snowden.
It's an obvious allusion to Kjellberg's ongoing battle with T-Series, a popular Bollywood channel that has been accused of using sub bots to boost its subscriber count, as the two vie for the title of YouTube's biggest channel.
Part house nostalgia, part Max Martin pop, the song begins with the kind of keyboards that are usually invoked to signify gospel or spiritual depth, suggesting a slow ballad, perhaps an allusion to her grief over the concert tragedy.
Then there's the emotional drama of Miquela discovering she and her archrival Bermuda are both supposedly his creations, which seems like a pretty clear allusion to Luke Skywalker's daddy issues to me, and I don't even like Star Wars.
The song's theme follows the nostalgic Latinx pop tradition of something like Cuban-born Gloria Estefan's "Mi Tierra," but the allusion to East Atlanta, a hip-hop culture hub, places the song in a very different contemporary diasporic dialogue.
"The World Cup has shown wonderfully what the police can be like in Russia, but what will happen afterwards?" one of the activists asked in the video, an apparent allusion to lenient policing noted by Russians during the tournament.
Poetry is also about how form relates to content.) This verse is obviously rife with allusion (Cinderella and Romeo meet up here, and Ophelia, Robin Hood, and a host of other famous characters come up later in the song).
And craftsmen in the city of Zlatoust, east of Moscow, have released a limited series of silver and gold commemorative coins, engraved with "In Trump We Trust" - an allusion to the phrase on U.S. banknotes "In God We Trust".
In the signature line from the night, Trump insisted "Americans are dreamers, too" — an allusion to the name of "Dreamers" for DACA beneficiaries and to Trump's insistence that the rights of native-born Americans should be the primary focus.
Social Democratic Finance Minister Olaf Scholz was caustic, telling the Passauer Neue Presse newspaper it was annoying to see the "CDU's internal popularity contest being carried out on the backs of the very weakest" - an allusion to asylum seekers.
"Racism and murder are unequivocally reprehensible and are not morally equivalent to anything else that happened in Charlottesville," Morrison said in a statement, an apparent allusion to Trump's comment that "many sides" were responsible for the Charlottesville rally violence.
Thus the pun embodied in the book's title: Talan is a place near Dijon, an allusion to the fact that Reverdy saw himself as a provincial newcomer to Paris; but Jacob saw Reverdy as a thief of his talent.
The Albee estate's allusion to Nazi ideology makes sense, but the presence of similar physical traits in the son who does not exist suggests a certain ambivalence on the parts of George and Martha toward this kind of whiteness.
The movie, released in France as "La Fiancée du Pirate" ("The Pirate's Fiancée") is set in the fictional village of Tellier (an allusion to the Guy de Maupassant tale of prostitutes on holiday, adapted in Max Ophul's "Le Plaisir").
A newspaper columnist complained in 1998 that so many foreign pitchers were being signed that the pitchers' mound was practically a "foreign concession," a bitter allusion to China's experience as a nation exploited by the colonial powers of Europe.
This weekend, it was a not-subtle allusion to the Trail of Tears -- the forced migration of American Indians from Mississippi to present-day Oklahoma -- to poke fun at Warren on the occasion of her official 2020 campaign kickoff.
President Donald Trump on Sunday wondered if Democrats would conduct an investigation into whether Russia was involved in Sanders' Nevada caucus victory, an allusion to former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 2019 investigation into Russain interference in the 2016 election.
And he does not mention the politician dominating discussion this year, though he does seem to make an allusion to President Trump when he mentions people from the future looking back on today from a devastated, rubble-strewn landscape.
The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday the enemy - an allusion to Washington - was worried about the prospect of war and was focused instead on an economic conflict, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
Obama didn't name the recent New York Times op-ed by an anonymous Trump official directly, but his allusion seemed clear as he warned against putting hope in unaccountable, unelected bureaucrats to protect the country from Trump's worst impulses.
Unlike the French and Italians, Colefax and other English decorators of the era neither eschewed nor fully embraced any single period; their interiors were a mélange of Classical allusion, Gothic revival, Napoleon III inspiration, Orientalist interpretation and Indian motif.
When, at another point, Mr. Trump said that Mr. Rubio did not know "anything about business," the senator responded: "I don't know anything about bankrupting four companies," an allusion to Mr. Trump's liberal use of bankruptcy protections over the years.
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines did not name Duterte in a carefully worded but highly critical "pastoral exhortation," but the allusion to the president and his tough anti-crime crackdowns, which have alarmed human rights groups, was clear.
The all-male approach would seem to be an oblique allusion to Merton's life as a Trappist monk, but if so, Mr. Mee and Mr. Waters have peculiar ideas about what Trappist monks get up to in their remote habitats.
There's always been an element of moral questioning to the Jurassic movies, but in Fallen Kingdom — which even in its name seems to be making a roundabout allusion to the erstwhile Garden of Eden — that question becomes more of an answer.
It's difficult to know exactly what the show thinks of Dick in this moment, but if you're aware of the real-world accusations that've been against him, this tossed-off allusion to his "gropey" tendencies is even harder to understand.
Though I admire his ability to work in an enormously different in scale, I prefer the intimacy of the smaller pieces — the ability to hold them in your hand and their allusion to magical objects are the real appeal for me.
The Court of Appeal last year deemed the reference "incomplete, misleading and unfair" and noted AXA's allusion to Krishnan's low client persistency ratio, a gauge of insurance business retention, did not provide sufficient information on how this ratio was calculated.
The voice, aggrieved and apocalyptic, mingles world-weary pronouncements ("You conquer people by telling them of battles, kings, elephants, and marvellous beings"—a freighted allusion to Kipling) with hot-and-bothered exhortations ("Your tough body keeps clinging to its certainties").
Chiefly, Vine was an exercise in how many black people talk among ourselves — in code and allusion — and how we telegraph blackness to white people, who may not know any black people besides the ones who live in their phone.
While the older museum label for the portrait had underscored the characteristic style of 18th-century painter John Singleton Copley (17153–1815) and pointed to his allusion to styles adopted by the British nobility, a new label now caught my eye.
Later, apparently responding to a BuzzFeed report that he'd directed his former fixer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress, Trump made a cryptic allusion to wrongdoing by a member of Cohen's family: "Watch father-in-law!" he wrote, without explanation.
In the statement, addressed to the acting Census Bureau director, Ron Jarmin, the committee also said it worried about the "implications for attitudes about the Census Bureau," an allusion to fears that the latest move jeopardized the bureau's nonpartisan reputation.
I know very few artists who have managed to retain such great calmness in art — and to express much with so little: a few lines and a few colors, an allusion to a theme or a motif, a trace, a void.
Manson's ideas about "Helter Skelter" weren't just generalized drug-fueled mayhem and violence; it was a specific allusion to a race war that Manson believed black Americans — whom he viewed as violent savages — were going to start and then win.
One viewer, NaYeon Yang, a psychology student at the University of Maryland who moved to the United States from South Korea when she was a teenager, spotted several examples, like Ki-woo's fake college credentials — an allusion to the Choi scandal.
When it announced quarterly earnings last month, Ford said it would achieve $3 billion in efficiencies this year, mostly offsetting the cost of investments in those "emerging opportunities," an allusion to technologies like driverless and electric vehicles and ride-hailing services.
And he sneaks in a few self-referential winks, including an allusion to his last really good movie that feels at once like a promise of better mischief to come and an implicit apology for all the disappointment in between.
In an ad released last week, he claimed "Swamp Captain Mitch McConnell has given millions of jobs to China People," an allusion to the shipping business run by the father of Mr. McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, Mr. Trump's secretary of transportation.
It continued with corny jokes that Buckingham Palace is seeking a "Super Canada-plus" agreement for the Canada-bound couple, an allusion to the sweetheart trade deal Britain would like to strike with the European Union when it leaves the bloc.
I wasn't sure about the allusion until the latter stages of Jane's adventures, when she wears her hair long and loose and tops it with the same style of hat that was sported—more dashingly, it must be said—by Welch.
While that move would work to keep oil prices down, Trump's other allusion, was that the US was "locked and loaded" after attacks on Saudi Arabia and that the country could strike against Iran for masterminding attacks carried out by Yemenis.
" That evening, President Trump himself weighed in, retweeting an article about the edited version and adding an allusion to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada: "I guess Justin T doesn't much like my making him pay up on NATO or Trade!
The "force" of Nicks's title can be the obvious colloquial reference—the police—but it can also be a much more literal, yet somewhat more opaque, allusion: how these public servants should wield the power and authority we give them.
Since Hughes' poem makes no allusion to politics or racism, we can take it at face value as a lyric meditation on our need to resist despair when facing life's vicissitudes -- those troubles from which no one, no matter how privileged, is exempt.
During his opening monologue, Maher said four "key facts" made his ape jokes different than Barr's tweet, in which Barr had referred to Valerie Jarrett, a black woman and former Obama top aide, using an allusion to the "Planet of the Apes" movies.
A tall, imposing window, meant to be an asylum cell in the play, is clearly an allusion to La Spectre de la Rose, a ballet in which Nijinsky entered and exited the stage by jumping through a large window to deafening applause.
In another literary allusion, this time to the blind Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who set one of his stories in an encyclopedic library, Mr. Eco named the villain of the novel Jorge de Burgos and portrays him as the monastery's blind librarian.
And in a swipe at first lady Cilia Flores, Ortega also mentioned the "narco-nephews" in her speech, an allusion to two relatives of Maduro's wife found guilty in the United States of trying to carry out a multimillion-dollar drug deal.
An IRGC commander warned that if Pakistan does not "do its duties", Iran will fight "the terrorist groups organised by regional and extra-regional intelligence services"—an allusion to the ISI, Pakistan's spy agency, and to those of America, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Democrats also agreed on an amendment to include an investigation of fossil fuel companies that mislead the public about climate science (an allusion to the Exxon Knew scandal), and to increase the country's percentage of clean energy to 100 percent by 2050.
Even Gilead's gruesome aspects, like public executions, are cloaked in biblical allusion; they're called "Salvagings," as if being beaten to death were act of of salvation But, as Offred realizes, Gilead oppresses through deliberate manipulation, not open-minded interpretation, of the Bible.
This gendered analysis seems unwarranted because Menaker's remarks weren't aimed at women as a class, but at the centrist wing of the Democratic Party; Clinton wasn't mentioned, and the phrase may even be an allusion to a common refrain in Game of Thrones.
The book is replete with allusion—to the work of Pauline Boty, a neglected British Pop artist from the nineteen-sixties, to "A Tale of Two Cities," to "The Tempest," and to "Brave New World" (whose title is taken from Shakespeare's play).
Concertgoers could savor a new electronic keyboard called a Mellotron, a singer dressed as a batlike alien commander, an allusion to a John Keats poem, and a philosophical allegory about humankind's demise—all in a single song ("Watcher of the Skies," by Genesis).
He has written an allusion-filled novel that still manages to feel original, a violent tale of struggle and survival in a cinematically beautiful landscape reminiscent of the movie "The Revenant" but rendered with far more immediacy and considerably less self-importance.
Page has already replied to the committee numerous times, saying he will not cooperate with their request until Senate investigators ask former President Barack Obama's administration for his communications -- an allusion to Page's accusation that he was targeted by the Obama administration.
While I guess I respect Grizzlies celebrating a monumental protest with their unis, the fact that they were designed and manufactured by Nike, a company with a workers rights record that is spotty at best, goes a long way to defanging the allusion.
One narrative device, and unapologetically bald metaphor, deployed by Thien is a manuscript of unknown provenance called the Book of Records — an allusion to Sima Qian's "Historical Records," China's most famous work of history — that is passed on from generation to generation.
How does one follow the most-visited Costume Institute show in the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the top three most-visited exhibits over all, one that grappled with the sacred questions of God, biblical allusion and religious ornamentation?
The allusion is more ritualistic nod than anything else, and there's little otherwise in "The Equalizer 2" that connects it to "The Searchers" other than the bluntly obvious: the near-mythic status of its stars and our very American love of violence.
From behind a curtain of black tattered plastic — a permeable membrane that reappears in other rooms of the exhibition — mannequin legs protrude in a somewhat heavy-handed allusion to a ghost or entity that, like the viewer, can traverse the abstracted history.
Golden Bridge is a silly record, and its title, an allusion to Tolstoy's War and Peace, is the first hint that Bejar would make a career out of dousing his fairy-tale indie folk in high literary references and layers of intellectual fodder.
Certainly Mother's arc is tragic: The life-giving, earth-grounded force gives birth, only to have the creating side, desperate for human approval and worship, give the baby away to them to be consumed (an allusion to the Christian practice of the Eucharist).
From the lyrics' fruity allusion to "strawberry lipstick" to the potentially coded reference to a "rainbow paradise," he succeeded in turning what sounds like his most radio-friendly, almost early Weeknd-ish, love song so far into a perfect artifact of pop foreplay.
That tongue-in-cheek allusion to divine intervention is meant to underscore the difficulty of "normalizing" the monetary policy that was designed to deal, for six years, with nearly catastrophic systemic problems in the financial services industry and in the real economy.
Addressing members of Ghana's parliament during a two-day visit to Accra, Erdogan said Turkey was well placed to help African countries combat terrorism, an allusion to its decades-long fight against Kurdish separatist rebels as well as other groups including Islamist militants.
RIO DE JANEIRO — The fashion director of Vogue magazine's Brazil edition has resigned following an outcry over photographs from her 50th birthday party that critics saw as an allusion to race relations during the colonial era, when Brazil relied heavily on slave labor.
Subsequent sequels, tie-in novels, interstitial TV shows, video games and fan fiction have lovingly ground this charm out of existence with exhaustive, literal-minded explication: Every marginal background character now has a name and a back story, every offhand allusion a history.
But one piece in the show, which might go largely unnoticed if not for an intriguing allusion in the wall text, has a particular significance that still reverberates in the walls of the Met and every other American art museum to this day.
The presence of a Neanderthal is an allusion to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was released the year following King's speech and speaks to "the way in which life and science fiction are so often intertwined," in the words of Arceneaux.
In a sign of the frenzy inspired by the changes, "Je suis circumflex" became a popular hashtag on Twitter — an allusion to "Je suis Charlie," the rallying cry used to show solidarity after the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo was attacked by terrorists early last year.
Sure, it might not be an allusion to the singer's next album (which fans are begging for, by the way), but it is a tribute to the film that got her invited to the Academy Awards in the first place: A Star Is Born.
At the press conference, Alexis Goldstein, who graduated in the class of 1999, held up her old Holton-Arms field hockey sweater emblazoned with the motto "Don't Mess" on the back and made an allusion to Anita Hill's testimony during the Clarence Thomas hearings.
Her name is Lionel Shriver, and she was clearly out to provoke a reaction, wearing a sombrero throughout her talk (an allusion to a kerfuffle at Bowdoin College last year, where a couple of students were censored for wearing "mini-sombreros" to a tequila party).
Palestine Legal, a Palestinian rights group that monitors U.S. anti-boycott legislation, said on its website that some of the laws enacted at U.S. state level apply both to Israel and "territories controlled by Israel", an allusion to areas such as the West Bank.
All the while, Flip struggles against a voice in her head she calls "the pig"—an allusion to the role of police in regulating Black and queer bodies—which relentlessly tells her that, as a queer woman of color, she isn't worthy of love.
In another work, a line-up of 1920s style anthropomorphized cartoon animals sit on a bench together, each sketching crude drawings of naked, busty women, perhaps an allusion to the pronounced sexism of yesteryear, culturally concealed beneath the wholesome icons of television of the time.
"The BFG" is most touchingly an expression of Mr. Spielberg's movie love, evident in its emphasis on dreams, a lovely interlude involving a kind of shadow play and even in an allusion to a Zoetrope, a protocinematic device that creates the illusion of motion.
Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency Tehran was also ready to offer "military advisory and security" help to Afghanistan in that state's fight against terrorism - an allusion to the Islamic State fighters and also Sunni Taliban insurgents.
Verdict nears for former Trump campaign chief The McCarthy allusion was the latest revisionist history lesson from Trump as the country waits for jurors to finish deliberating in the trial of Trump's former campaign chairman in Alexandria, Virginia, on tax evasion and fraud charges.
This looked like a subtle reproach to Trump for his unspeakable defense of the "very fine people" among the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Va., and an allusion to the president's statement last year on remembrance day, which somehow neglected to remember Jews or anti-Semitism.
In "Love in Vain I," the face of one of his demonic figures rises like a phantom from the picture's bottom edge — an allusion, perhaps, to the legend claiming that Johnson sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for his guitar-playing prowess.
Posh Lahoris whom he and his wife had considered friends gently elbow them off their guest list by telling them that their new "multicultural" book club has room for only one Pakistani couple — a winking allusion to the limits of minority representation in America.
Expressing the extent of the divide, Nicole Henson, a self-described "country dweller" and "mom" in Alberta, took to Twitter early Tuesday morning and suggested that "this is time for WexIt" — an allusion to the idea of Alberta and other western provinces separating from Canada.
Buttigieg's allusion to President Trump being reelected and the House being lost due to divisions in the Democratic Party spoke to what really is the center issue of this debate and election in my mind: Just how progressive is the future of the party?
CARACAS, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Cameras zoomed in on First Lady and lawmaker Cilia Flores as an opposition legislator accused Venezuela's government of handing out diplomatic passports to drug traffickers, an allusion to her two nephews on trial in the United States on cocaine smuggling charges.
From his announcement-speech allusion to "rapists" coming in from Mexico to his lament about "American carnage" to his manufacturing of a "crisis" at the border that requires a wall, the 45th president speaks in the vernacular of darkness, not light; of exclusion, not inclusion.
The allusion to a reclining figure in the context of the Yorkshire landscape evokes the sculptural legacy of artists such as Henry Moore, who had close connections to Yorkshire county, and many of whose works are on view elsewhere in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park's extensive grounds.
Now, morale has sunk so low that some employees refer to Ms. Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive, as "Evita" — an allusion to Eva Peron, the former first lady of Argentina whose outsize ego and climb to power and wealth were chronicled in the musical of that name.
In an interview with Polygon, he simultaneously says the game's name is a deliberate allusion to Detroit's civil rights history, but also not about it at all when he's confronted with actual instances of the city's violent racial history, like the 1943 and 1967 race riots.
Concertgoers could savor a new electronic keyboard called a Mellotron, a singer dressed as a batlike alien commander, an allusion to a John Keats poem, and a philosophical allegory about humankind's demise—all in the space of a single song ("Watcher of the Skies," by Genesis).
During an October 85033 presidential debate, Trump claimed that Clinton once laughed at a rape victim — an apparent allusion to a a 1975 case during which Clinton was appointed as a public defender for one of the two men accused of raping a 12-year-old.
On the cover of that issue, Superman, wearing a bold undies-over-tights look — a visual allusion to circus strongmen of the era — is seen lifting up a car: Superman's entire ensemble — cape, tights, "S" insignia, boots — is as recognizable and timeless as the character himself.
In the year 21973, Yuknavitch's Pizan writes on her body, by a torturous process of self-mutilation, the story of a twenty-first-century Joan, who is trying to save the planet from Jean de Men (another historical allusion), the insane celebrity who has become its ruler.
The derisive allusion to "consumer cattle" also references a series by Geys, Cow Passport (1965–2014), another longterm project meticulously archived throughout his career, stemming from the system used to buy and sell cows as consumer goods, again questioning our artificial relationship with the natural world.
" This problem presents itself when it comes to "the often highly literate, highly intelligent people who gravitate to the alt-right: internet savvy, media savvy, who often are radicalized in that way, who 'swallow the red pill,' as the saying goes, the allusion from 'The Matrix.
The spirit's elk form, for example, is likely an allusion to the deer, considered in both Shintoism and Buddhism to be a messenger of the gods (and his nighttime form borrowed from a Shinto legend of a spirit who can create footsteps in a frozen lake).
If the words you hear instead are "moules frites," you're still in good shape; the mussels will be fat and fresh, and their saffron-cream sauce will be rich and flavorful, even if the taste of saffron is more of an allusion than an outright statement.
The site has routinely dismissed Mr. Cohn as a "globalist" and a "swamp creature"; in headlines, his name would sometimes appear bracketed by globe emojis, to underscore the point — also an allusion to the triple parentheses that anti-Semites on social media use to denote Jewish names.
Mr. Corbyn has said he would renegotiate the deal and then allow the public to vote on it, a position that Mr. Johnson said was like "dying Virgil urging his friends to burn 'The Aeneid,'" an ancient literary allusion that was met with silence at the forum.
Matters of veracity have, obviously, been at the center of headline-making controversies lately, but Mr. Ives mostly sails above the fray, only allowing himself a gentle, and generic, allusion in the play's final moments, as Dorante soliloquizes thus: Perhaps I'll go onstage and be an actor.
This was an obvious allusion to the dual sovereign doctrine, which was developed as a rationale for states to prosecute defendants based on the same conduct for which they have already been charged at a federal level without impinging upon their constitutionally protected right against double jeopardy.
It's heavily based on a few sources — Ben Domenech, in an allusion to Hillary Clinton's post-election tome, calls it "Steve Bannon's What Happened" — and riddled with typos and small but glaring factual errors (like that John Boehner left the House in 2011, rather than 2015).
With a withering series of questions and an emotional allusion to the fact that she was one of those little girls who rode those buses, Harris went a long way toward proving to Democratic voters that she can -- as she often tells audiences -- fiercely prosecute the case against Trump.
After the comment raised eyebrows, Hatch defended his use of the phrase more commonly understood a sexual reference by tweeting a definition that says "to shoot one's wad" means "to do all that one can do," and is an allusion to the material used to plug old guns.
And then we've got an allusion to not only the Cubs curse, but Theo being partially responsible for breaking the Boston Red Sox's own decades-long curse, jammed into a play on the phrase "chapter and verse," itself a reference to quoting very specific portions of religious scripture.
In Freedman's portrait, she holds Da Vinci's The Last Supper—an interesting allusion to her kinship with Warhol, since decades later she told The Huffington Post they both were interested in religious iconography, and that shortly before Warhol's death in 1987, he was working extensively with that subject matter.
At this point, given the layers of quotation and allusion, it seems silly to treat David's image as if it were, as Percy might have had it, some flimsy representation standing between himself and an unmediated world, or a private snow-globe reminder of that stretch of Interstate.
Ms. Shriver donned a sombrero for much of her speech — an allusion to a case in the United States in which articles of impeachment were drawn up (and later rescinded) against non-Mexican student government members for doing the same during a fiesta-themed tequila party at Bowdoin College.
" In an allusion to Trump's xenophobic rhetoric, his policies at the border, and his decision to shut down the government in a failed attempt to get his wall, Harris said that "people in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other.
"We are not here to lecture," Trump said, a clear allusion to President Obama's June 2009 speech in Cairo, which is credited with having helped to spark the Arab spring revolts that brought down the governments in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt and led to the rise of ISIS.
Combined with the sound piece and the allusion to witches, Mother gives you the feeling of entering a magic circle, where the time Owens spent in contact with the tree, the luminous material, and the accumulation of the mass-produced glass creates a strange symbiosis of migration and connection.
He especially enjoyed it with a dish of broccoli rabe tossed with anchovies and roasted garlic, finding that the wine and food "swirled in a fresh and lively flavor tarantella," an allusion to southern Italian folk dances that I have not seen used in a wine description previously.
The phrase is a song by the musician Liz Phair; a cognitive-science term coined by Douglas Hofstadter referring to the slippery, reflexive nature of the self; and an allusion to W.E.B. Du Bois's description in The Souls of Black Folk of the "double consciousness" of living while Black.
Superheroes are political, and Luke Cage hasn't shied away from that, with the first season using imagery like Cage in a hoodie (an allusion to Trayvon Martin) or moments like Cage's distrust of a corrupt police force to comment on the ugly reality that black men and women cannot escape.
Only those of us familiar with the newspaper's history understand the allusion: such clippings were displayed near the lifts in our previous HQ. Similarly, departments of the paper continue to call themselves "12th floor" and "13th floor", even though they now share the same (sixth) floor in the new building.
And lo and behold, Twitter tagged on to the literary allusion, merging Trump's latest scandals with some of the classic and not so classic works of literature: 'Sleeping Beauty' 'Moby Dick' Bible The #TrumpBookReport hashtag raked in over a quarter million posts after trending on Twitter, hitting a peak Thursday afternoon.
But in 2015 Sony forged a deal with Marvel that finally allows the web-slinger to appear in Marvel movies, which in turn helps boost the superhero's solo ventures, hence the smirky allusion in Homecoming's title to Spider-Man being both a high school student and also coming home to Marvel.
Overall, there were a few trends that stood out to me, which may catch a budding collector's eye: small people on stark white backgrounds, the continued reign of millennial pink, bright and bold Hockney-like canvases depicting California life, homages to pop music, and the occasional allusion to a Basquiat crown.
About three-quarters of the way through "Oasis," the new eight-song collaborative album by the Latin superstars J Balvin and Bad Bunny that was released without much warning overnight, there is a lyrical allusion that will prove familiar to many Spanish speakers acquainted with '90s rock or drunken karaoke.
MindGeek's holdings include Pornhub, Redtube and YouPorn, among dozens of other sites; it has its own porn production companies and its own adult advertising network; it claims on its corporate website, which makes no direct allusion to pornography, that it receives more than 115 million daily visitors to its properties.
Just hours after the shooting in El Paso, McConnell's official campaign tweeted a photo of a mock graveyard that included a headstone of his opponent, with the caption "The Grim Reaper of Socialism"—a self-congratulating allusion to his reputation as an obstructionist who subverts the Democratic process by killing bills.
The social media event was inspired by President Andrew Jackson's 1837 open house featuring a 1,400-pound block of cheese, with a meta allusion to fictional White House chief of staff, Leo McGarry, who told his staffers about the cheese draw in an early episode of "The West Wing" TV series.
"There was only one name check of China in the speech, and then one allusion to intellectual property rights, so it was less hard on China than you might have expected," James Crabtree, associate professor of practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, told CNBC.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Then I noticed Frederick Douglass giving a Black Power salute while holding the swastika-stamped head of what appears to be Donald Trump — an obvious allusion to the moment, a few months back, when the president seemed to believe Douglass, who died in 1895, was alive.

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