Quotes About Allusion

Finally, for research like this, the quality of the translators is crucial. Kirundi is a language of allusion and proverbs: information is conveyed between the lines, hinted at, but rarely expressed directly. The challenge is also social: the translator is the front-line person who interacts with the interviewees, making the connection, maintaining the social aspects of the relation, putting people at ease.

Listen to really old blues guys and how they weren't allowed to sing about what they meant; they alluded to things. I find that style amusing, and I think it's a little harder to write.

When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

When Paul was exhorted to be baptized and to wash away his sins, there was an evident allusion to the use of water in the ordinance of baptism, and had there been no application of water on which to ground such an allusion, we may be certain that we should never have heard of washing away sins in baptism.

Non sai di quante allusioni a te sia pieno il mondo.

In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.

As well as their pervasive allusion to the Old Testament, the images of Revelation also echo mythological images from its contemporary world.

Sully grinned down at her. "We wear the chains we forge in life, old girl." Miss Beryl blinked. "Who'd have thunk it? A literary allusion from the lips of Donald Sullivan. I don't suppose you remember who said that." "You did," Sully reminded her. "All through eighth grade.

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

In the passage where Jacob and his descendants ... final break from Laban (Gn 31:47), various writers have seen an allusion to the time when Israelites abandoned Aramaic and adopted the Canaanite language of the country they were living in.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

She became a morality tale stiff with Schadenfreude, and so many columnists made allusion to Icarus that Private Eye ran a special column.

In the code of the Japanese haiku, there must always be a word which refers back to the time of day and to the year; this is the *kigo* the season word. Amorous notation notation retains the *kigo*that faint allusion to the rain, to the evening, to the light, to everything that envelops, diffuses.

Allusion is lovely, and experience with other forms of writing brings the ability to use that device pervasively. This in turn sets high expectations for the reader- in that you are expecting him to pick up on it- and this is a way of respecting your readers. And when you respect your readers, they will come to respect you.

The Stetson passage is an allusion to Frazer theory in The Golden Bough that religion originated as agricultural engineering. Through a grotesque process of literalization, all of the dying gods and heroes in The Golden Bough, along with Christ and the Fisher King, are transferred from mythic to modern consciousness ( Frazer himself was an unabashed positivist) to be made explicable in scientific terms as fertilizer.

Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.

I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

We used," he said, "to endeavour to get someone to represent us in Parliament, who would agree with us on vital subjects, such as the Church of England and the necessity of religion. Now it seems to be considered ill-mannered to make any allusion to such subjects!

Somehow it seems more clever to refer to something instead of saying it.

Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.

Now, in allusion to the white, silent stillness of death in this shark, and the mild deadliness of his habits, the French call him Requin.

Oh, boy. Why did I have a feeling I'd just aligned myself with Tweedle Diva and Tweedle Devious?

Bo aluzja jest swego rodzaju formÄ… sztuki. Aluzja to prawda ubrana w szatÄ™ metafory.