Try to imagine a 21st-century musical paying sincere tribute to the tragic but inspiring story of these Kennedys, and your mind goes blank.

Though in humorous form, this was a sincere tribute.

But these dancers performed it with such a sense of artistic proportion that the duet became a sincere tribute to balletic classicism.

This sincere tribute of imitation, which affection offers to its adored object, had later, I hope, subtler manifestations, but certainly these first ones were altogether genuine.

It was perhaps the sincerest tribute we have ever received as to the success of the undertaking.

However, I want to pay a sincere tribute to those who work in the institutions and have made the registers and access to documents a reality.

I pay a very sincere tribute to the skill and cooperative attitude of Mr Nassauer as the rapporteur.

I should like to pay a very sincere tribute to Chancellor Schüssel for steering the European Council so effectively.

I want to pay sincere tribute to these brave women.

The press was obviously in the mood for pathos, more pathos, after Jansen's sincere tribute to his late sister on Friday.