Sentence examples for a hommage from inspiring English sources

There is the mashup of genres, from newspaper reports to a hommage to the golden age of detective fiction.

Looked at in this light, Zodiac could be seen as something approaching a hommage from a director who made his name with a film, Se7en, that followed a template that the Zodiac killer laid down.

For example, Francesco Totti's neat little chip was obviously a hommage to Antonin Panenka's brilliantly subversive winning penalty for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 European Nations Cup final shoot-out against West Germany.

At his seventh-arrondissement restaurant Auguste (the name is a hommage to Escoffier, his inspiration), Orieux, who hails from Brittany, is one of the few Parisian chefs to experiment with lesser known, but more sustainably-fished species such as red drum, tacaud (poor cod), and black mullet.

The name Jones the Savage in a hommage to a character in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World.

"And I didn't want to make a pastiche or an hommage to film noir.

In August AMC will unveil the two-hour premiere of "Rubicon," a series about an intelligence analyst who stumbles on a high-level government conspiracy — an hommage to classic cold war thrillers like "Three Days of the Condor" and "The Parallax View".

There's also a walk-on by a flamboyant Globe correspondent named Jimmy Pomegranate — an hommage to The Times's irrepressible R. W. Apple.

Arabesque is itself an hommage to Gainsbourg, being a collection mainly of Serge songs recorded with Algerian violinist Djamel Benyelles.

Elsa is partly an hommage to Esther Blodgett of "A Star Is Born," but the novel is even more in debt to Fitzgerald.

Even tough guys are allowed to play their little games, and Ken Bruen exercises that license in LONDON BOULEVARD (Minotaur, $24.99), an unnervingly clever reworking of "Sunset Boulevard" that's both an hommage to the 1950 Billy Wilder film and a blueprint for contemporary noir fiction.