Alongside the biblical overtones, The Tree of Life also advances a Darwinist history of creation.

In the "Jesus-haunted" South, as Flannery O'Connor called it, some even suggest the timing has biblical overtones.

"I might say this passage should be slangy, or this colloquial; this passage has biblical overtones or this is a distilled quotation from some poet," she explained.

It's nice to see Sarah, with its biblical overtones, rising to new popularity.

But the Iraqi letter will also remind many readers that President Bush and Saddam Hussein are both drawing from the same well of outrage, with biblical - or koranic if you like - overtones.

Sometimes their talk had biblical overtones.

The biblical overtones are there, but the piece as a whole is not.

His poems were gloomy, deeply personal and often contained biblical overtones centering around his internal moral conflicts.

A plaster head on a plate has biblical overtones, but the bulging plaster eyes make Andre Iten's offering comic.

The great pre-Johnson lexicographer Nathan Bailey nicely defined federation as "a covenanting," with its biblical overtones, agreeing to form a bond that permits each of the covenanters some freedom and individuality within the unity.