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  • s  characterized by indirect references
    allusive speech is characterized by allusions

  • That program's title gets an allusive homage in a "Hard Day's Night" exchange between a reporter and George Harrison.
  • Filled with post-World War I disillusionment and despair, this allusive, fragmented epic became a touchstone of modern sensibility, and its haunting, haunted language sang the .
  • He has energized each frame with allusive legerdemain and an intelligent density of images and emotions.
News & Articles

  • Review: Cognitive overload with Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley
    Made up to look like black and white drawings, the protagonists in Mary Reid Kelley’s videos speak in a constant, densely allusive patter. This approach worked swimmingly in her 2010 show at Susanne Vielmetter, which featured two videos that looked at the darker side of early modernism. The stark, stylized appearance of those works perfectly evoked stripped-down modern aesthetics.
    June 14, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
  • Review: Cognitive overload with Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley
    Made up to look like black and white drawings, the protagonists in Mary Reid Kelley’s videos speak in a constant, densely allusive patter. This approach worked swimmingly in her 2010 show at Susanne Vielmetter, which featured two videos that looked at the darker side of early modernism. The stark, stylized appearance of those works perfectly evoked stripped-down modern aesthetics.
    June 14, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
Quotes

  • Russell Crowe in The Age
    Part of the game is that what looks good on paper is different sometimes to what's on the screen because it's a very allusive medium,Crowe said. "I don't think we should be deconstructing what we have, if anything we should be smoothing...

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