"tribute" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- And against its own stated intentions, this book is a backhanded tribute to their influence.
- Ultimately, this becomes a backhanded tribute to his comic abilities.
- Mr. Beers has written a backhanded tribute to the certitudes of his childhood.
- Gachet (Gérard Séty) is Mr. Pialat's backhanded tribute to his most persistent patron, the producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier.
- Even antilabor violence was a sort of backhanded tribute: Andrew Carnegie and Henry Ford noticed the people who worked for them, if only to shoot and club them into submission.
- Peterson returned to Oakland on Tuesday night as the Mets' pitching coach and was greeted with a backhanded tribute.
- Aristocratic criticism of royal rapacity was a backhanded tribute to that success.
- It is not therefore surprising that there were many malicious or frivolous complaints, and the many investigations which judged complaints ungrounded are a backhanded tribute to the fairness of the system.
- My only quarrel with this book is a backhanded tribute to its virtues, to the interest created in character and situation.
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