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The former president claimed a double standard about media outrage, referring allusively to the two … having an online history.

From Washington Times • Dec. 23, 2021

Then there’s the fact that Pepper’s eclectic, allusively titled body of work tells a complicated story, one that imprecisely adhered to the rigid tenets of Minimalism, with its anti-referent stance and self-justifying manifestoes.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2019

Rather, what he found in Jackson Heights is, as the film meticulously, intellectually, allusively, yet ardently shows, a crucial aspect of American experience, a working-out on film of the American democratic ideal.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 3, 2015

She has pursued the central mystery tangentially and allusively in a clever, skilfully woven, teasing and compelling story "inspired by Lewis Carroll and Alice".

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2012

For a number of pages you are quite unable to tell whether this is a ghost or a legend or a foreboding or simply old-fashioned dreams that are being allusively placed before you.

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)