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.
Meunier (moon-yay) is French for "miller, " an allusion to the flourlike appearance on the leaves.
Note that word "braying" - a deliberate allusion to the Woosterish upper classes.
Those who try to explain it come back to one word hubris, the literary allusion to excessive self-confidence, pride and arrogance.
"Defensively, the one thing we can say is that we finished, " he said, an allusion to the loss to Broncos a week before.
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.
An IMF team which visited the country in June described the economy as "sick" -- perhaps, an unintended allusion to the condition of the president.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In one of his defiant pre-war rants, Mr Hussein made an infelicitous allusion to the sacking of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258: the way its modern vanguard rushed suicidally at American armour rather than confronting it from entrenched positions helped to ensure a similar outcome in 2003.
Judging from the questions that ensued, that line struck most listeners as an obvious allusion to his time at MSNBC, where he was briefly suspended for making undisclosed campaign donations and endured other tussles with higher-ups at NBC and GE he left immediately after the sale of NBC Universal to Comcast received approval but Olbermann spent the rest of the call combating that interpretation.
The allusion clearly was to the uncertainty that shrouds the war in Iraq.
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.
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.
And the worst thing would be having to explain everything, every reference, every allusion, every joke about your own past or your own era.
But his verbal dexterity and years as a Baptist preacher allow him to dodge almost any awkward question with a Biblical allusion.
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!
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