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Their plots were complex, nested, allusive, the sort of TV that demanded activity and attention rather than passivity.
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Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
Style often allowed a filmmaker to set a mood in an allusive way.
—Hazlitt, 9 Aug. 2023
Aside from the text on that bottle, O’Brien’s work is allusive and indirect.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
But by choosing literalness over ambiguity, ‘The Boogeyman’ doesn’t quite stick the landing like that richly allusive 2014 Australian film did.
—Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
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Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
Style often allowed a filmmaker to set a mood in an allusive way.
—Hazlitt, 9 Aug. 2023
Aside from the text on that bottle, O’Brien’s work is allusive and indirect.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
But by choosing literalness over ambiguity, ‘The Boogeyman’ doesn’t quite stick the landing like that richly allusive 2014 Australian film did.
—Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
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That’s not a knock on Knight, but rather, is indicative of the lack of attention paid to numerous midcarders on the blue brand.Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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But his last two starts were indicative of deeper issues.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Again, wholly unsurprising, but not reflective of what appears to be the general sentiment not just among critics, but the majority of fans.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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But Wyatt had independently been having similar reflective conversations with his friend Li.Fred Topel, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2024
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Semantic bleaching is another linguistic process whereby the denotative content of a word is stripped away.Brandon Tensley, CNN, 10 July 2022
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The paragon of such an attempt is something like Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror, a work that stands as a denotative record of the social media shift, yet still falls to the same difficulties that characterize other cultural criticism of this type.SPIN, SPIN, 8 Feb. 2022
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My films are really expressive about people’s lives.Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
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Yamada’s color direction is deeply expressive from start to finish.Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
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He was reportedly discovered by an employee of Russia's foreign intelligence agency, the SVR, with injuries characteristic of a fall.Harriet Marsden, The Week UK, theweek, 22 Oct. 2024
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The people wear regular clothes, including the women and girls, who were dressed in blue jeans or leggings, not the prairie dresses that are characteristic of the polygamist sect.Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2024
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These hernias can be both symptomatic or asymptomatic.Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024
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In any case, whether or not the crisis persists, the movies that have been its symptomatic victims will endure and be remembered.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2024
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Yet even as the crimes or the forms of intoxication evolve, the power of the symbolic meal persists.Jessica Carbone, Saveur, 24 Oct. 2024
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Zoom in: Campaign advisers think that the symbolic location will serve as a reminder of the violent day in history on Jan. 6, 2021 — and be an effective backdrop for Harris to argue that there is a way forward for the country.Erin Doherty, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Allusive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allusive. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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