Sentence example with the word 'allusive'

allusive

allusory, figured, implicational, implicatory, inferential, insinuative, ironic, metaphorical, referential, trolatitious

Definition adj. characterized by indirect references

Last update: June 29, 2015


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Now, with one brilliant exception - the story of the swimming-match, which is felicitously introduced and finely told - these retrospective passages are brought in more or less awkwardly, interrupt inconveniently the course of the narrative, and are too condensed and allusive in style to make any strong poetic impression.   [Please select]

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They were pungent, pertinent, allusive, succinct, supplementing, as with meat, those others.   [Please select]

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An Allegorical subject, allusive to the demolition of a statue offensive to the Low Countries.   [Please select]

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Fortune Reversed, an allegorical subject, allusive to some hero upon whom Fortune has turned her back.   [Please select]

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She had suddenly, in some indirect, allusive way, become interested in a man's life.   [Please select]

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"To think of her," replied Septimus, vaguely allusive, "is a liberal education."   [Please select]

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