"true tribute" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means a genuine or sincere display of honor or respect towards someone or something. Example: The performance by the local choir was a true tribute to the late music legend.
Ortiz's composition is fresh, highly creative; it takes folk traditions and reinserts them into a contemporary idiom, and is a true tribute to the Haitian legacy of Cuban music, often overlooked.
One of Bobby's most prized accomplishments, though, came much later in life when she finally achieved her Bat Mitzvah, a true tribute of her dedication to and appreciation for her religious heritage.
An emotional George W. Bush quit the only public office he has ever held this morning, thanking Texas legislators and other supporters in a speech in the State Senate here for a "record of shared success, a true tribute to bipartisan efforts" during his six years as governor.
The story is a true tribute to the power of art and good storytelling.
"This is a great honor and a true tribute to his mother's legacy, who did so much for young artists".
If indeed Kim Jong Il ever was a fan of Michael Jackson, ever gasped at Michael's moonwalk, smiled at Thriller, hummed along to the Jackson Five or any of Michael's countess hits, his pardoning of Laura Ling and Euna Lee and sending them home to their families would be a profound act of compassion, a true tribute to a man whose death has left the entire world in mourning.
But Friedman still awaits a truer tribute.
A much truer tribute to the aesthetics and mechanics of the original Doom can perhaps be found in Devil Daggers, a stripped down, ridiculously uncompromising blaster that thrusts players into the pit of hell to face eternal waves of monstrous demons.
It is easy to think that he never learned how to stop.Of one of his early Chicago mentors, the great economist once wrote: "He taught us that an objective, critical examination of a man's ideas is a truer tribute than slavish repetition of his formulas".
For me, the truest tribute was offered by the writer Dan Shaw in a 2013 piece in New York Magazine which surfaced online when Bill died.
That's its true ideology, a tribute not to Hollywood as it is but to an ideal of so-called adult drama that, supposedly, Hollywood doesn't produce anymore.
