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Critics are unimpressed with first-time director (and Academy Award-winner) Kevin Spacey's attempts at stylishness, particularly the relentless allusions to film noir.
During its early grandeur under the State of Chu, the town was called “Jinling,” a name still used in literary and other allusions.
But from an idealist's perspective, the decision to let Kosovars die rather than risk American lives is indeed political--and the purpose of Clinton's allusions to "judgment," "strategy," and "circumstances" is, as with all such realist language, to obscure our indifference and cowardice.
Seizing on Fielding's allusions to Pride and Prejudice , critics declare Diary an Austenlike comedy of manners that captures the Zeitgeist . They praise the protagonist's caustic humor for providing an antidote to her "perfectly coiffed ...
Other semantic categories have been set forth by Roget; still others by March in his Thesaurus ; and thematic arrangements have appeared in words like Picturesque Expressions, Allusions , and other books prepared by and under the direction of this reviewer.