allusive

Modifies a noun

• reference: So the phrase was an allusive reference to crashing in the sea, later extended to all crashes.
• phrase: The headings in almost any daily newspaper usually include several allusive phrases, as well as idioms.
• fashion: The rest of the crest refers to the name Rushcliffe, in typical heraldic allusive fashion, depicted by a cliff rising from rushes.
• style: Cereta, with her passionately literary mind, wrote with a densely allusive style marked by her knowledge of the classics.
• language: This selection of Browne's writings presents the full range of his exuberant enthusiasms and his richly textured, allusive language.
• name: Therefore there are many clones of the same typeface, with different and sometimes subtly allusive names.

Modifying Another Word

• richly: The Art of Hunger undermines and illuminates our accepted notions about literature and throws an unprecendented light on Auster's own richly allusive writings.
• densely: Cereta, with her passionately literary mind, wrote with a densely allusive style marked by her knowledge of the classics.
• highly: The links between the art-work and the biblical themes it seeks to explore, illustrate, and interpret, are often highly allusive.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: But, just as Saddam has remained allusive so have Osama Bin Laden and Mullah Umar.