Example sentences for: hommage

How can you use “hommage” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Although it pitches itself as an hommage to films such as Heathers , Carrie , and Clueless , critics say writer-director Darren Stein "can't decide whether he's satirizing his demon heroines' homicidal indifference or celebrating it" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The film has only two things worth looking at: the eye-popping costumes and Rose McGowan, who has the part of the bitch-goddess down pat.

  • The work is, of course, an hommage to the police-procedural genre for which Americans are principally known overseas.

  • Flick's name is clearly an hommage to Sammy Glick, the Hollywood hustler of Budd Schulberg's classic portrait of '30s ambition, What Makes Sammy Run ? Glick was viewed through the eyes of Al Manheim, a jaded lefty alcoholic who regarded this new species of capitalist human with contempt but also with awe: Sammy was a force of nature.

  • Could this, we wondered, possibly be an hommage to the strangely similar technique invented by William Saletan for Slate 's "The Week/The Spin"?

  • The same goes for the ghetto-bred college football star named Fareek Fanon (in unsubtle hommage to Frantz Fanon, the French intellectual who championed anti-colonial violence in the 1950s).


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