Sentence examples for as a callback to from inspiring English sources

The new film's references to "Shane" are overt, from footage of the movie to dialogue quoted as a callback to parts of the plot.

This can either be read as a callback to the final scene of the first series, where Jim Hopper left some waffles in a box in the woods for Eleven to eat, or as another piece of the 1980s infatuation that came to define the first series.

Interestingly, as funny as these proceedings are, they also serve as a callback to Abed's implied Asperger's syndrome.

The two suns serve as a callback to the pair of setting stars Luke sees early on in "A New Hope".

Michael has Luke pick up pants for him from Talbots, a retail store that specializes in women's clothing and accessories; this also serves as a callback to the Season 3 episode "The Negotiation", where Michael accidentally bought and then wore dress slacks called MISSterious that were designed for women.

The scene between them in their bedroom almost felt like a dream sequence; I half wondered if it was one, but it all really happened (and it served as something of a callback to another moment of truth with Betty from a season or two ago; like Megan, she had little makeup on and was at her most sincere).

Instead, fans got a callback to "Remedial Chaos Theory" as they circled around the table and ordered pizza at Troy and Abed's, wondering if this was in fact the darkest timeline.

It was a callback to his days on the stump.

It's a callback to the way things were.

This is a callback to the pilot episode in which Michael "fake fires" Pam.

As the area has turned suburban, coming to resemble the rest of New Jersey, the Jersey Devil has become almost a callback to a wilder time.