Sentences with phrase «in affectionate tribute»

Designed in affectionate tribute to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Kempinski Hotel Ishtar Dead Sea is built with local stone boasting 345 rooms and suites within a stylish Arabesque monument building that weaves clean and simple lines into an Arabian theme.

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For Kendra Nicholson, the affectionate nickname is a tribute to a masterfully managed social media portfolio, in which fans can usually expect a response to their online queries within the hour.
«He looked like us, he represented the Chicago mentality, the Chicago people,» says actor Dennis Franz in This Old Cub, an affectionate tribute to the ballplayer (directed by Santo's son Jeff and narrated by Joe Mantegna) that was recently released on DVD.
Egalitarianism is rampant in the affectionate fulsome tribute by grandee Nicholas Soames to Gladys Dickson, who reigns supreme in the Members» Tea Room.
Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) was an affectionate return and tribute to the early days of Saturday morning matinees and cinema, with comic - book archaeology hero Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) battling the Nazis while searching for the sacred Ark of the Covenant - the first in a very successful trilogy of films.
All these years later, this affectionate tribute to old Hollywood and innocent matinee westerns is just as funny, thanks to a knowing script (by Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels and Randy Newman), engaging performances (by Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short) and Landis» savvy direction, which is larger than life in all the ways that those original westerns were.
The film is, at its heart, an affectionate tribute to old Hollywood musicals, and this is reflected in the songs, all of which are old pop and showtunes for the»30s and»40s.
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