Example Sentences

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For all its severity, eating-disorder literature is not conservative in its allusiveness.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2019

If this new book lacks some of the range and depth and allusiveness of that earlier book, well, she has battened down certain hatches.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2018

But Mr. Garland’s goal isn’t clarity: it’s allusiveness, and a style of entertainment that swings freely between adventure, some of it silly, and serious mystery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2018

For the most part, however, the photographs are stages upon which Cole performs his erudite allusiveness.

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2017

Guy Hazlewood would solve the problem with his pranked-out allusiveness, would trace more featly the attributes of the Academic Muse and establish more convincingly her descent from Apollo or her identity with Athene.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton