Perhaps in ironic allusion to his own name-or even to the activities of his friends-Sanguinetti had christened his sixty-million-dollar status symbol Bloody Mary.

Ashvegas', Ashburton's common nickname, is an ironic allusion to Las Vegas.

The artwork is an ironic allusion to the business people wearing "collar and tie" who work in the DZ's office tower and in the Frankfurt banking district around.

Mr. Raksin's underscore itself is a series of ironic allusions: here a little Gershwin, there a little Ellington.

It is an art of hard-driving movement and the kind of still imagery caught by the camera's eye, an art of probing, passionate social commentary and ironic verbal allusions.

It is a number opera written in neo-classical style and includes ironic allusions to operatic conventions and situations typical of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

It's merely an ironic allusion to his play and points out a few depressing steps the world has made since Chekhov gazed upon it.

Roth's and Updike's use of the scandal, however, goes beyond mere ironic allusion.

The term is also an ironic allusion to the homophone "Sorrowful World" (憂き世), the earthly plane of death and rebirth from which Buddhists sought release.

Contemporary attitudes and sensibilities as well as slang pervade the lyrics and ironic allusions to modern life are scattered throughout the depiction of political events.