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Tag Name "Allude" (11)

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There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.
Sarah Moore Grimke
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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
Umberto Eco
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We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which the engine orders and combines its operations: we allude to the attainment of those combinations into which imaginary quantities enter.
Ada Lovelace
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Talking about my personal life onstage, I've realized I'm not one of those comics who can do that. I can allude to it but I don't want to be a confessional performer.
David Rees
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In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.
Frederick Lenz
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Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.
James Surowiecki
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I don't ever feel that it's necessary to say certain things. I think we can be very suggestive. I think we can allude to certain things.
Teddy Pendergrass
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There are at the present time two great nations in the world - allude to the Russians and the Americans. All other nations seem to have nearly reached their national limits, and have only to maintain their power these alone are proceeding along a path to which no limit can be perceived.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal
Edgar Allan Poe
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We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
J. J. Abrams
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The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.
Rachel Cusk