It was not, in spite of occasional echoes and frequent invocations by the media and broadcasters, the Ashes of 2005.
The backing is provided largely by acoustic guitar and percussion, with occasional echoes of anything from accordion to Malian traditional instruments such as the ngoni.
Even if there are occasional echoes of Round the Horne parody, there is still a wicked pleasure in watching James Fleet's patriarch, Clive, banging on about the way women are "dark like this continent, mysterious".
The influence of Pelléas et Mélisande on the delicately inflected vocal lines, which often hover ambiguously between speech and song, is obvious, and the occasional echoes of Wagner - in the sombre opening prelude, in the use of leitmotifs to represent the protagonists and important symbols like the shroud that Penelope is leaving and Ulysses' bow - seem to have been filtered through Debussy too.
There were occasional echoes of its power, though mostly nostalgic.
The mass exodus has rendered Kobani a ghost town, the occasional puff of smoke from artillery fire and the periodic echo of gunfire the only indications of life.
WASHINGTON — From the rooftop of a mud house overlooking the Shomali Plain, the white explosions in the distance and the red streak of artillery fire and the occasional thunderclaps echoing across the valley announced the start of America's war in Afghanistan.
It's neither in Enright's case, thankfully, or in the book as a whole, even if there's the occasional back-slapping echo of the festschrift in these 50 or more pieces.
Exchanges of machine-gun fire and occasional mortar blasts echoed from the hills near Tetovo, the center for Albanians in Macedonia, for much of the day, Reuters reported.
