Both paid oblique tribute to Republicans for making a serious proposal to halt it.

The amazing counterpoint at the end of No. 41, called the "Jupiter," is one of Mozart's oblique tributes to Bach, whom he had come to admire.

When the real identities and circumstances of the film's various characters are abruptly revealed, they become an oblique tribute to the depths of Lucas's anxieties, and a not-so-indirect tribute to Dr. Freud.

Supposedly also about Iggy Pop's girlfriend being eaten by a TV set, it has been called "incongruously jolly" and "the most oblique tribute to The Yardbirds imaginable".

Also in the final scene is an oblique tribute to actor Cary Grant, star of the screwball classic Bringing Up Baby.

The fourth annual Evening Stars Music and Dance Festival opened with two separate programs that paid oblique but strong tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks last year.

This impatience at levity was, however, an oblique tribute of respect to those able persons who commanded his regard not only when he found them friends and coadjutors but also when they resisted his will.

He reflects a type of Salzburgian style, mixing charm and gibe, jest and outrage, that can (in its minor fashion) become an oblique tribute to Mozart himself.

The answer, I think, is an oblique tribute to the power of the silent movie.

Play Elvis Presley's 'Teddy Bear' and you're paying an oblique tribute to the memory of the 26th President, Theodore 'Teddy'Roosevelt, after whom the Teddy Bear was named.