As a biblical allusion, it's also inaccurate.

It was only natural for them to connect these two, just as they once joined geocentrism to biblical allusions to a fixed earth.

He was a witty - if sometimes impenetrable - conversationalist, peppering his speech with biblical allusions and complex wordplay.

But it nonetheless thrums with biblical allusions.

The text incorporates many other narratives and contains several biblical allusions.

It was a deliberate historical allusion.

Focusing on those living on the outskirts of approval, the songs are boldly layered with biblical, literary, and historical allusion.

There again, even great poets can be bafflingly specific in their own historical allusions.

Such historical allusions are beside the point.

The practice of close, line-by-line reading of a text to tease out meaning and discover what lies behind teasing ambiguity and historical allusions had rather gone out of fashion.

Many of the poems to follow would contain literary allusions; this first effort seems more dependent than most on them.

Nowadays there are few literary allusions, poetic references or classical inferences.

Do you use literary allusions in your preaching?

It's fascinating the way you use literary allusions.

The inventive betrayal here includes the novel's literary allusions.