"a clear echo of" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that is reminiscent of something else, especially in a figurative way. For example, "The painting had a clear echo of the artist's early work, but with a more modern twist."
Marshall illustrated the genesis of "Sawdust Palace" by having four of her dancers perform a section from "Cloudless," called "Book," which was a clear echo of "Arms".
It's a clear echo of a lovely scene in "The Glenn Miller Story," in which everything locked into place at a performance of "Moonlight Serenade".
In a clear echo of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's bid to recruit a "government of all the talents", including politicians from other parties, Mr Johnson said: "Kate has a huge and well-known commitment to sport and to London, and I am determined to bring talent from across politics and the community to a new administration".
"If we would argue for an end to the slavery of taxation without representation, we must follow that argument to its necessary conclusion, and commit ourselves to end slavery of every kind," he thunders, in a clear echo of the real-life revolutionary James Otis.
"In your image" is a clear echo of Genesis; elsewhere, she refers to "that longing for a holy completeness in the form of a child," as if she were imagining herself as one of those barren Biblical mothers who desperately petition God to bless their wombs.
The coup de theatre is the finale of "Rock'n'Roll Suicide", where the dying star reaches out to the audience, imploring: "Gimme your hands, 'cause you're wonderful", in a clear echo of Puck's last words, a call for applause, in A Midsummer Night's Dream (first uttered by William Kempe): "Give me your hands, if we be friends / And Robin shall restore amends".
There's a clear echo here of The Social Network, which similarly counterpointed the rise of electronic information with the breakdown of communication between the co-founders of an online revolution, one nice, one nasty.
The proposed summer pairing of Chamberlin and Cumani is a remarkably clear echo of Mike Cattermole and Emma Spencer, who fronted Flat racing coverage together from 2010 to 2012, his journalistic background being well matched with her insider's knowledge.
The RASS echo was strong up to about 5 km, becoming weaker at 5 10 km with a clear echo again at 10 13 km.
After Constellations – a play featuring quantum physics and brain science, with a looping structure in which scenes repeat – Nick Payne has delivered one dramatic departure – The Same Deep Water as Me, an office and courtroom comedy – and a piece with clear echoes of his biggest success: in Incognito, the fate of the brain of Albert Einstein is explored through recapitulated incidents.
McManus and Chadwick – as they had done in Footballers' Wives and Bad Girls – also incorporated fictionalised versions of recent news stories into Waterloo Road: curriculum or exam fads of new education secretaries, sexual relationships between staff and students or, in the seventh series, a teenager who was detained for the murder of a child (with clear echoes of the James Bulger case).
