Sentences with phrase «few allusions»

Even more problematic is that Marvel's tendency toward overblown, apocalyptic finales is in full effect, with a final act comprised of mass death and destruction and very few allusions to character development.

During the antenatal interviews the women and their partners were aware that they themselves might change when they became parents but made few allusions to the possibility of any change in their relationship.

Even if the Samaritan woman in John 4 makes a few allusions to Deuteronomy (mentioning the prophet to come and the right place to worship), this does not mean that this woman is following Tamar's example (Gen 38) in trying to raise offspring for her first husband in line with Deut 25.

A few allusions along the way tie this history to the current scandal of priestly sexual abuse and its cover - up.

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Relatively few direct quotations of prophecies are attributed to Jesus himself, but there are many allusions to the prophetic books in his sayings.

For a people putatively schooled in scripture, these arguers use relatively few biblical allusions.

Few Americans caught the allusion, but bin Laden's Muslim listeners understood his reference at once.

With the sole exception of a single allusion to Jesus» last supper with his companions, nothing which could in the ordinary sense be called an act of Jesus or an incident in his career is so much as referred to, and in only a few highly dubious passages are his words quoted.

Yet if academic scholars can keep writing papers on the evolution of Renaissance chamber - pot design or political allusions in Beowulf, it's likely that a few obsessives will always continue to fiddle with strings.

Not helping matters is that the central family is a bore, with lots of vague allusions to backstory but precious few specifics to latch on to.

There are many in - jokes and witty allusions to be found throughout the film, mostly dabbling into Arnold's filmography for references, although the makers aren't afraid to send - up such high - brow artists as Shakespeare, Mozart, and Ingmar Bergman for a few choice gags.

Really, all it is is a cross between Antz (one bug in a colony finding his own path) and Shrek (constant pop culture allusions done in rapid tongue - in - cheek fashion), with perhaps a few dozen others sprinkled here and there.

Masculine, gruff and given to few words (in the English - dubbed version he's voiced by a monotone Michael Keaton), Porco Rosso is something like a swine Ernest Hemingway — there are even allusions to his womanizing past.

The movie feels quite a bit like Movie Star and is even less enjoyable, with the exception of a few semi-clever allusions to the Hollywood industry.

For a film that is constantly nudging us in the ribs with allusions to the original «Star Wars» trilogy, it does «Solo» few favors to bring to mind the incendiary interplay between Ford and Carrie Fisher that gave those films so many of their standout moments.

While she was at it, Judge Laporte managed to pepper her technical speech with a few literary allusions, including a formula from a Salman Rushdie story that lawyers should never let their litigation support staffs use on them, «P2C2E»: Process too complicated to explain.