In his homily to an invited congregation of area church leaders and lay dignitaries, the pope delivered a traditional holy day message venerating the memory of the Virgin Mary and avoiding even indirect allusions to religious divisions here.

He said that "intellectual terrorism" was incompatible with true religious thinking, and made indirect allusion to the phenomenon of Islamic investment companies, which in the late 1980s had attracted the savings of small investors.

The song contains several direct and indirect allusions to biblical characters as well as historical references.

The Fallout series of computer games contains numerous direct and indirect allusions to nuclear wars and potential nuclear holocaust, with a distinct 1950s cold war style.

The Simpsons makes several indirect allusions to Adventism.

But no; he proceeds to make all sorts of indirect allusions, to talk all round St. Paul in each of the scripts, and to make five quotations from St. Paul's writings.

Also evident is her characteristic use of indirect sexual allusions.

Angel, the spin-off series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, includes a firm named Yoyodyne, although this may be an indirect allusion via the Buckaroo Banzai film.

He (or she) was believed to have been divinely inspired, and was therefore able to say truths which others could not, normally in the form of indirect allusions or parables.

His remarks included several unexplained references to "foreign aid" from Indonesia, an indirect allusion to contributions to Mr. Clinton from people with ties to an Indonesian business family.