Hommage vs Eulogy - What's the difference?
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A homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist.
* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=November 29, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=His Master's Vice, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=There's a clip from his Pickup on South Street in Scorsese's The King of Comedy, and extended hommages to other Fuller films in Godard's Breathless and Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.) }}
* {{quote-book, year=2002, title=Guido Cavalcanti, author=Maria Luisa Ardizzone, page=150, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=53XLa_9fq_sC&pg=PA150
, passage=It is certainly true that Pound wanted to pay hommage to Guido. }}
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 30, author=Anthony Tommasini, title=Doing Everything but Playing the Music, work=New York Times
, passage=The piece is like an hommage to Ives: atmospheric and thickly textured music with multiple elements happening at once. }}
An oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral.
Speaking highly of someone; the act of praising or commending someone.
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/14/england-scotland-international-friendly]
As nouns the difference between hommage and eulogy
is that hommage is a homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist while eulogy is an oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral.hommage
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(wikipedia eulogy)Noun
(eulogies)- The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies , it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.
