Calvino declared later that it was a conscious homage to Stevenson.

In many ways the tale is based on the story of Eros and Psyche, to which the narration pays conscious homage when referring to the "discovery" of the Green Dragon.

As one has come to expect, Mr. Sellars has taken Stravinsky's conscious homage to Mozart and the rococo and set it in pursuit of today's front page.

This restaurant, in a grand Art Deco building near the Flatiron Building, is a conscious homage to the area's past.

The film is also a conscious homage to Mario Monicelli's 1957 film, "Big Deal on Madonna Street," about a grandiose pawn shop heist that goes awry.

But social historians will be fascinated by Eleven Madison Park, a conscious homage to the area's past.

In the novel's afterword, Fry states he tried to make his novel appear more of a conscious homage by changing the characters' names to anagrams or references to Dumas' original work:

This restaurant, which occupies the stately ground floor of a grand Art Deco building near the Flatiron building, is a conscious homage to the area's past.

Now and again it is overt so that a book becomes a conscious homage.

The new name explicitly echoed the notion of technical clothing, and its new mountain-range logo seemed to be a conscious homage to Patagonia's.