Sentence examples for respectful tribute from inspiring English sources
It was a respectful tribute, if not enormously memorable.
Some Waller devotees will recoil, but this is a respectful tribute from a remarkable modern-music mind.
And China, which refused to contemplate a relationship which was not one of respectful tribute, was happy to forget about its only real East Asian rival.
The chair is a respectful tribute, he added, and "we strongly believe in the fact that we have created a whole new product".
A week ago, the band received a lifetime achievement award from the Kennedy Center, as well as a light but respectful tribute speech from President Obama.
In its basic situation can be heard the distant clang of A Streetcar Named Desire, though it's neither pastiche nor reprise, just a quietly respectful tribute.
Coverage of the pope is respectful, a tribute to his position, and also to his extraordinary personality and will power.
Executive producer Ken Ehrlich and his team announced that Jennifer Hudson would perform a "respectful musical tribute" on the CBS broadcast.
It's too bad, because as Mr. Williams, Lily Tomlin, Bob Newhart, Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks, Jesse Jackson, Quincy Jones and others pay respectful, sometimes unctuous tribute to Pryor's comic genius, you'd like him to have the last word.
A respectful and rousing tribute to the men of the 442d Regimental Combat Team, composed largely of Japanese-Americans (Nisei) who brought glory to themselves and to their unit in World War II, is contained in a simple, straightforward M-G-M war film, "Go For Broke!" which had an auspicious opening at the Capitol yesterday.
5 stars 9 12.08: East of Bucharest dir Corneliu Porumboiu What we said: "It's amusing stuff - though not as funny as it would like to be - even if rather obviously studio-bound". 3 stars 10 Letters from Iwo Jima dir Clint Eastwood What we said: "His diptych is concluded with muscular conviction and decency, but it is subdued and respectful: a floral tribute presented at a celluloid memorial".
