pastiche

How To Use pastiche In A Sentence

• 20th-century period pastiches, mingled with spikier, modern writing. Times, Sunday Times
• Then comes an entirely new set of challenges: face-offs with writer friends whose essays he failed to select for the literary pastiche and fears the anthology will get skewered fatally by critics.
• In his historical pastiche, Wells elects to take the past and sex it up a little.
• Even his trademark style now reads more like a pastiche than a stylistic innovation.
• This is a very big, brawling mix of ideas and interviews, with wacky clips, spoofs and pastiches, some devastatingly funny and pertinent, some of them pretty lame.
• That gave the project its own language, making it a zoomorphic structure rather than a Jetsons pastiche. Building U2's 'Claw'
• This kind of self-reflexiveness, through pastiche and quotation, is characteristic of metafiction and metafilm.
• Some call them a joke, poseurs who pastiche the look, moves and sound of classic, brothel-creeping rock'n'roll; others call them the coolest band in the world.
• The film is a pastiche of the Hollywood Wild West.
• Yet this Harry is not merely homage and deference to past works, a pastiche of styles and narrative devices like so many other films that seek to emulate previous masters of the genre.