This is not so much a gangster movie as an extended, elaborate allusion to one.
But it is also an allusion to Semar, the most mystically enigmatic wayang character.
Flirtations with her married estate-agent employer and the family priest never progress beyond mutual embarrassed allusion.
Meunier (moon-yay) is French for "miller, " an allusion to the flourlike appearance on the leaves.
The allusion clearly was to the uncertainty that shrouds the war in Iraq.
Note that word "braying" - a deliberate allusion to the Woosterish upper classes.
Not everyone can grasp the allusion, but most agree that the complex has the Tange hallmarks: mass and fortress-like solidity.
Also, be wary of creating the allusion of power and success by surrounding yourself with material items beyond your means.
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Those who try to explain it come back to one word hubris, the literary allusion to excessive self-confidence, pride and arrogance.
The allusion-mongering of the writer, Richard LaGravenese, gives it delusions of grandeur.
But his verbal dexterity and years as a Baptist preacher allow him to dodge almost any awkward question with a Biblical allusion.
"Defensively, the one thing we can say is that we finished, " he said, an allusion to the loss to Broncos a week before.
And the worst thing would be having to explain everything, every reference, every allusion, every joke about your own past or your own era.
The title an allusion to the Iraq war suggests the paradox of a system that can also marshal its might for the good of one child.
Running their autonomous company from Oxford Street, the pair have been called "the Weinsteins of Europe, " an allusion to the producers behind Disney's Miramax unit.
The allusion-mongering soars only when the full-throated Klingons played by David Warner and Christopher Plummer brush up their Shakespeare over dinner with Kirk and crew.
An IMF team which visited the country in June described the economy as "sick" -- perhaps, an unintended allusion to the condition of the president.
Pursuing investments, which give you short-term allusion of returns but long-term liability to a huge crash like we just had, is the exact opposite of where we want to go.
Keillor, meantime, decided he wanted to reward loyal listeners with a free poster of "Powdermilk Biscuits, " an allusion to a fictitious sponsor that was part of the Prairie Home gag.
The organized crime allusion was not lost on me.
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He gave no specifics, but the comment could be an allusion to Iranian demands of sweeping sanctions relief instead of the offer from the six offering only a limited lifting of sanctions.
"The Creative Destruction of Medicine" an allusion to economist Joseph Schumpeter's description of "creative destruction" as an engine of business innovation is a venture capitalist's delight, describing dozens of medical technologies that show great promise.
There was little direct mention of party politics Sunday, but ample allusion to the partisan battles that cramped many of Obama's legislative efforts in his first term and have continued unabated into his second.
"The song is a musical allusion to one of the most quintessential New Orleans and Mardi Gras songs, 'They All Ask'd For You, ' by the Meters, " says Harris, who fronts the New York-based Visible From Space.
Indeed, given the murky gender politics that Labour's candidate-selection process is liable to throw up, Mr Dewar may find that his choice of site for the new parliament is more laden with historical allusion than he imagined.
He combined this with disciplined enthusiasm, a taste for the arcane and arresting, a deep and deeply informed love of literature, felicity of quotation and allusion, and most of all an apparently genuine affection for his readers.
Mr. GEORGE: Well, the wink, wink, nudge, nudge, was most definitely an allusion to the drug use, and Johnson obviously was trying to possibly that way Bill Shaheen, the - Hillary's former co-chair in New Hampshire, was alluding to that.
Apart from an allusion now and then to his "thirty-five years of foreign policy experience, " John Kerry has been astonishingly taciturn about his twenty-year record on defense programs, intelligence matters and foreign affairs in the United States Senate.
But you can be sure Brown nor anyone else at the club are skipping the pages, anticipating a happy ending, for they know full well the final chapter will be the most difficult to write - if that's not stretching the fairytale allusion too far!
Mr. BARR: You know, I don't think it is, and you're not really hearing any Democrats cry foul over it, I think just because there's such a clear allusion to, you know, that widely popular Joker figure that Heath Ledger played in that Batman movie.
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