"After Samuel Palmer," a recent picture, pays explicit homage to another Briton, its clashing colors flirting, as Palmer did, with an ugliness that aspires to fresh beauty.

In recent years, John Ringo's series Legacy of the Aldenata (also known as the Posleen series) featured a more explicit homage to Heinlein's book.

The Thirteenth Floor (1999), like Blade Runner, is an explicit homage to classic noir, in this case involving speculations about virtual reality.

Mr. Dubus and Mr. Lott's explicit homage to a dead modernist is not quite the polemical act it may seem.

Arthur Erickson designed this noble glass and concrete-beam structure in 1972 as an explicit homage to the post-and-beam longhouses of the Northwest Coast Indians.

In Season 5 Episode 7 of Breaking Bad, there's an explicit homage where Walter White orders the execution of prisoners that could implicate him as a drug king.

The design is an explicit homage to the Guggenheim, but at the Guggenheim we generally accept the tradeoff because the result is a work of genius.

It was named as an explicit homage to H. P. Lovecraft, referring to the short-story "The Silver Key" he wrote in 1926.

'Belle Epoque' is an explicit homage to Renoir's 'Day in the Country,' a masterpiece from the 1930's," he said.

One of his main characters, an effete English historian, is named Sir Leigh Teabing, an explicit homage to Messrs. Leigh and Baigent.