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

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

The recondite allusiveness and seeming opacity of his newer work frustrated or even annoyed some critics.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2013

As those who know his published work are aware, he was much given to literary allusiveness and to quotation.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)