Sentences with phrase «make allusions»

Collectively, however, they make allusions to the legacy of minimalism, sci - fi landscapes, and cinema.

She will make no allusions to fantasy, leisure, or social status.

Again and again, the memo makes allusions and suggestions that it does not manage to back up with facts.

In speaking of his work Watanabe makes no allusions to self - expression or artistic purpose.

For instance, making allusions to being «caught up in the clouds together» may reinforce the idea of the rapture, which as the article points out is a relatively new concept in Christian theology which can a have a big impact on how one imagines salvation.

But many more times than this Matthew makes allusions to various passages in the Old Testament as he tells his story.

In any event, the parallels do not fully prove that he knew these letters — though we must remember that Christian writers generally are fond of making allusions to New Testament writings instead of quoting them explicitly.

But it now made another allusion, one that wouldn't do Thompson's case any good.

«He made allusions to things, but he would never pin it down.»

The 45 - year representative also made an allusion to Mr. Williams» large fundraising hauls, which have included sizable donations from financial firms, and from individuals and interests based in the Capitol and in Los Angeles.

The ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Senator Brad Hoylman, made an allusion to President Trump's negative tweets about various judges, including, most recently Trump's criticism of the judges deciding the validity of Trump's executive order on immigration.

The source close to Kuku described him as a patriot who can not sabotage Nigeria's economy.He made allusion to the peace that Kuku facilitated as head of the Amnesty programme.

Today Warner Bros. dropped the official version and it too makes no allusions that the radioactive dinosaur / lizard - monster is trying to find its way and ultimately live alongside humans in solitude.

The movie also makes an allusion to more recent teensploits, such as The Hangover (2009) which featured a convicted sex offender molesting a missing infant.

Today Warner Bros. dropped the official version and it too makes no allusions that the radioactive dinosaur / lizard - monster is...

In their response to you, they made allusions to possibly bringing the tags back, but you're not optimistic that will happen?

What New Zealand pop culture are you making allusions to in Blastosaurus?

Right from the get go the story makes no allusions to anything grander.

Players on the Skyrim forums have pulled out a series of strings hidden within a recent Skyrim patch that makes allusions to a crossbow, a snow elf prince and new vampire feeding animations.

Drawing from the symbolism attached to skulls and their emblematic links to the inevitability of death, Life is Only One makes allusions to Dutch memento mori paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries and incites emotions of pain, loneliness, helplessness and despair.

The difference, as Moses sees it, between being an artist and a painter is one of discernment: He would contend that an artist makes things that look like, or at the very least make allusion to, other things.

While making allusions to the American Dream, consumerism, and pressures of compliance to the social norms, she humanizes a stigmatized disease by relating her internal struggles to universal pains that many people face when trying to find their place in the world.

Other than his titles, which are often derived from rock and roll or jazz («Great Balls of Fire,» «BlackBird,» and «SunRa»), the artist makes no allusions to popular culture.

He goes on to describe the significance of the color green in this exploration as a reference to naiveté and a utopia unspoiled by experience while at the same time making an allusion to the flip - side which is Berlin's darker history.

Both shows make allusion to the voguish notion of the cabinet of curiosities or Wunderkammer, but each offers a different take on this 17th - century craze.

And making allusions to prior encounters between you and DC does not further your argument.

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I think Paul was making a clear allusion back to Genesis and that it makes a stronger statement to say that we are no longer male and female.

Dementias is seeing things and then ascribing illogical meanings to them either by choice or through chemical imbalances) would make beneficial (helpful) condolences (to assure someone that you care about them when something bad has happened) to illusively (false truth) make connotations (or allusions, a slanting of the bias of language toward) a glint (small reflection of light) of glamor their main pride's orifice (did....

This, of course, is an allusion to something C. S. Lewis wrote about in The Weight of Glory about us being content to make mud pies in the slum because we can not imagine what is meant by a holiday at the sea.

So many of these comments seem to make vague allusions to incidents that I know nothing about, and yet they are offered as examples in some larger narrative.

I used to be catholic I believed in God as a kid but when I grew older I turned my back on God have not even been to church in 5 to 6 years now could this be a sign or is it a allusion I am making into a big deal which really ai nt that big of a deal maybe I gone insane I don't know I don't want to sound like I'm bragging to seek attention for this which I am not I am simply just looking for some insight on why this has occurred to me.

When Noll speaks of Equiano's «immersion» in Scripture, he is not using that metaphor casually, as an extract from the Narrative makes clear with its «fusillade of scriptural quotations and allusions.»

A second allusion to Lewis's own story is found in The Pilgrim's Regress, when Lewis portrays John hearing these words near the Canyon: «For this end I made your senses and for this end your imagination that you might see My face and live.

Now imagine if the 90 % of the population also believed it was immoral or at least highly suspect not to believe in witches, that «In Wizards We Trust» was printed on your money, that community leaders made regular allusions to witches in their speeches and that you were regarded as «angry,» or «bitter» for being skeptical of the whole witchcraft thing.

The Episcopal church had too much money and power early in the twentieth century and, like the House of Hapsburg manifested in the person of Prince Charles of England (or I could make a bitter allusion to the Bush clan but will refrain), became dull - witted and boring without an infusion of mongrel ideas.

Third, the Christian church has little access to or influence on the major policy making institutions of our society, in spite of the noisy presence of reactionary church voices and political campaign allusions to religious values.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

Readers were expected not only to recognize the allusion to Ezra Pound, but (and I know some will think this a stretch) to recall Pound's anti-Semitism and to reflect, perhaps, on the contribution Madoff's actions might make to the resurgence of that virus.

In 12: 1 - 13:6 Judah and Jerusalem are vindicated against the nations and made victorious by Yahweh's intervention; the city repents and mourns for someone martyred in a just cause (the historical allusion is unknown); and Yahweh now removes all idolatry and prophecy (degenerate prophecy, prophecy of a mercenary and corrupt form), and effects Jerusalem's spiritual cleansing in a divine fountain.

I would not want to put too much weight on the passage, but it does not seem certain to me that Mark 1:38 is not making the sort of casual allusion to the pre-existence which we have noted in Paul.

Specifically, Wolterstorff declines to mention the pitched debate over the import of the multiple allusions Paul makes in Romans 1 to Genesis 1 - 3, allusions that suggest that «nature,» as Paul understands it, isn't simply «what is common in Paul's day» but rather what is given in God's creation itself.

And as such, it will not surprise us to see that James makes a lot of allusions to the Old Testament.

And, in general, homo religiosus — within and without the Abrahamic traditions — makes remarkably similar allusions to God, creator of the heavens and earth.

One or two students in each of the four nine - week classes chose the course because they wanted to understand the allusions to the Bible made by their parents or other adults they respected.

(It would not be unusual for an allusion to be made to the ignorance and superstition of the witnesses.

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.

When the writers of the New Testament hold up this aspect of his life for imitation, they make clear allusions to Isaiah 53.

This was in distinction to the so - called «witty» preaching which sought to impress the congregation by a display of erudition, making extensive use of classical allusions and delighting in literary flourishes.

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.

She never said his name and made only one allusion to him.