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.
Their bawdy exploits were commented on by Howerd during asides, complete with awful puns, in a pastiche of the traditional Greek chorus.
They sat at separate tables and waited until the band started its last set with a synthesised pastiche of Hello Dolly.
I was fonder of Tom Tryon in "Texas John Slaughter", sort of a cut-rate pastiche of Ford's cavalry trilogy. Davy Crockett, the Green Hornet, the Phantom and other heroes of my youth who werent really heroes of my youth
A far cry from Keijo's spooky, noise-laden pastiches or Islaja's feral moan, Growing Green is subtly pastoral.
While her earlier houses were twentieth-century pastiches of the Louis XVI style, here she had authentic eighteenth-century French boiserie installed in the drawing and dining rooms.
Peter Baker's bathroom is a brilliant pastiche of expensive interior design.
It's written in a kind of pastiche nineteenth-century style, complete with faux-Spanish exotic syncopations, melody and harmony (falling tetrachords, augmented seconds).
This slam-bang B-movie pastiche is wildly uneven as it doggedly strives (sometimes with obvious strain) to sustain a freewheeling, anything-goes air of exuberant junkiness," writes Joe Leydon. Venice film festival opens with Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan
The closing story in this collection, "Pride and Prometheus," recently published in F&SF, is a splendid exercise in Jane Austen pastiche, a younger Bennet sister meeting Victor Frankenstein and striving to reconcile his cruel Gothicism with scientific ideals. Financial independence via munchkinland
The disk jockey played a pastiche of speeches by the president - in the president's own voice - assembled to convey precisely the opposite of their original meaning.
However, the consistently bad dialogue, expensive set design and knowingly hammy acting lifts it almost to pastiche level.
So any time or in any place contemporary styles and techniques are sure to make a pastiche of a style borrowed from another period. The Education of a Gardener
Thus came the parlour songs, which at first were a mixture of folky adaptations and pastiches of operatic arias; verses of gentle melancholy were set to simple melodies accompanied by an Alberti bass or arpeggios.
The first half ended with the Ives Sonata No. 4, an unruly pastiche of hymns, marches and folk songs in a polytonal texture, which simply stopped mid-phrase. Virtuoso violinist Hilary Hahn holds her audience rapt but adds some irritants
Much of what he writes in the chapter is a pastiche of statements made in De l' Usage des passions.
The final section on lay spirituality is a pastiche of elements from a number of sources (the charismatics, monastic renewal, and others).
Tarantino may be doing a pastiche of Kubrick's The Killing and other gangster pictures, but he is also, perhaps unconsciously, revisiting Sartre's hell.
And yes, he's a talented musician who does wonderful spoofs and pastiches.
It's an enigmatic pastiche of emotions, accusals, and imagery.
The novel borrows one of James's favourite narrative methods without attempting anything like a pastiche of his style.
These moments, along with the principles of combination that bring them into juxtaposition, do not prioritize original composition over pastiche or sample, ambient noise or snippet of radio.
None of its pastiches or copyists has ever rivaled the impact of the originals.
Whereas the groups they pastiche often seemed like they would rather be anything other than a popgroup, The Strokes don't want to be anything but…
Its stated goal was to determine once and for all what the master painted and which pictures should be relegated to students, followers, and modern pasticheurs.
Yet a supererogative ear and superior taste excuse the worst execesses of cherry-pick pastiche. Hot Artists at Elbo.ws
Chatterton claimed to have transcribed this poetry, which was written in a plausible pastiche of late Middle English, from old parchments found in the muniment room of the parish church of St. Mary Redcliffe, where his father had been a lay clerk. The Marvelous Boy
Lifestyle carpet tiles in Pastiche, teamed with the Country border range, by Heuga.
This is one of the best pastiches of rabid right-wing moronism I've ever read. Hillary Hits Obama: "Pennsylvanians Don't Need A President Who Looks Down On Them"
So many riches, so many opportunities to astonish us, and yet Clarke insists on breaking off again and again to indulge in literary pastiche.
Tripmaster Monkey opens with a pastiche of Ulysses's third chapter, Stephen Dedalus's ten-page interior monologue.
A Witch's Tangled Hare, a 1959 Warner Brothers cartoon, offers Bugs Bunny and Witch Hazel in a pastiche of selections from Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.
The band ricocheted from one genre to another, often stopping to blend elements into a kicky pastiche of jump blues, beat poetry and lacerating alt-rock/rap.
From a notoriously thin-skinned TV celebrity to an ageing novelist of the club generation, the pastiches are as transparent as they are hilarious.
The first three books were pastiches and I didn't want to end up pastiching myself and finishing in a dark cobbled alley I'd been down before.
Beaton posed the hollow-eyed Warhol between to pretty, bare-chested boys in a pastiche of a Renaissance painting.
Oddly, the pasticheur closest in spirit to Duchamp's double forgery In the Manner of Delvaux was Marcel Proust.
Actually, I was quite worried about doing a comic novel, because I'm a massive fan of PG Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh, and I was terrified I was going to lapse into a pastiche of their style.
A pastiche of autobiography and post-modern plot twists, it was haunted by an off-putting tone of smug precociousness.
This idea of “rootsiness” appeals to me, since I feel my generation is more a pastiche culture than any other. Letters
Bogart and Bergman's heart-rending airstrip farewell is enshrined as one of the all-time great endings, and was pastiched to great effect in Woody Allen's Play It Again Sam.
Irony is a kind of escape clause: you don't have to consider the ‘social aspirations more sincere than our own’, only pastiche them.
We have the capability to pick and choose and pastiche and sample from our multiple selves to construct a better human being.
That artist - the ‘brilliant newcomer,’ ‘imitator,’ and consummate pasticheur - was Pablo Picasso.
With a pastiche of scores by Chopin, Schumann, Shostakovitch, and Rimsky-Korsakov, Nijinsky is a phantasmagoria.
Broadway musicals in the 21st century are a pastiche, a mixture of rock and roll revivalism, fan friendly stalwarts, campy film to footlight adaptations, and brazen experimentation.
Duchamp offers us a pastiche of Delvaux's style, his manière, which features in painting after painting groups of women in various stages of nudity parading through dreamlike landscapes.
It sounds very typical Kerouac, but then again it is easy to pastiche.
She's an expert in the art of pastiche and parody.
This clumsy pastiche may please its creator, but the difficulty with any ‘me-film’ is that you're only guaranteed an audience of one.
But the eyebrows really raise with Noel's songs. ‘Mucky Fingers’ proves he can pastiche the Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan as well as the Beatles.
Here, instead of a subtle critique of Bonifacio's shortcomings, Tintoretto opted for out-and-out parody in a cheeky pastiche of the late artist's approach.
The $10.5 million show, a haphazard pastiche of various famous Dr. Seuss stories, had been savaged by critics when it debuted in late November.
It is a call to look inside ourselves and our societies for the roots of chauvinist pastiche and a chilling demonstration of the fact that unless we go out and grapple with complexity, complexity will come in and smother us.
The film is a pastiche of the Hollywood Wild West.
As usual, pastiche passes for parody and the chuckles would flow more freely with the addition of a laughter track. Times, Sunday Times
They may as well have called it deep six, because the film plummeted into a predictable pastiche of previous potboilers.
This first major American survey of the Icelandic painter contains approximately 70 of his colorful, dense canvases offering a pastiche of artistic styles and pop culture references.
Arena Ready is an album full of idiosyncrasies and references, but it's never a pastiche of other artists’ work.
Even if this were a passably good idea, the score would have sunk the show, for the songs are period pastiches so anonymous as to actively resist recollection. Don't Let its Name Be a Curse
Some may remember Niagara, the '80s French pop duo who often pastiched the glory days of Gainsbourg - cool tunes, snappy vids and serious retro chic.
The piece was initially meant to be, among other things, a pastiche of Ray Bradbury's sci-fi entertainments.
London's usual approximation of village life is a cutesy pastiche with expensive artisan bakeries and manicured parks. Times, Sunday Times
Nowhere do his clothes look more of a pastiche of forgotten styles than in these gussied-up mini-modes. Times, Sunday Times
He was a virtuoso fabulist, whose literary hoaxes and counterfeits verged on pastiche.
The parodist must both imitate and create incongruity in relation to the pretext, and parody has, contrary to pastiche, traditionally had a comic dimension.
Is it merely note-perfect but diluting pastiche? Times, Sunday Times
The piece moves so quickly from one disjunct fragment to the next that the resulting work couldn't be thought of as jazz, but only postmodern pastiche.
Its huge popularity in ecclesiastical and domestic decoration had led inexorably to widespread commercialism, with many designers content to work in a pastiche of historical styles.
From the off-centre title metaphor to the beautifully layered arrangement, this is no mere pastiche.
And if you want to make it personal, you puffed-up, snot-nosed walking pastiche, I can tell you about a close friend of my father, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour a few months after retiring; the NHS did everything within its capabilities for two years. Matthew Yglesias » 2017
Although there are occasional contemporary references most of the text reads like a pastiche of an Old Testament prophet and much of the language and imagery is Biblical.
(she's now doing Black Eyed Peas pastiches, if that's any indication), Ms. Jones (she's still Miss now, having split from long-term luvvie and songwriting partner Lee Alexander in 2007) has set about to reignight her career with a more uptempo solo album. Irish Blogs
I envision them as two goatee-stroking trainspotters with swelled, distended craniums, able to assimilate incidental music from any source into a perfect pastiche.
It's sort of the same thing, except that it's slightly more difficult to claim 50 per cent of the royalties from an ill-advised mid-life crisis bunk-up with a teenager than from a catchy middle of the road doo-wop pastiche. Christie Brinkley Divorces Billionth Husband
They're a pastiche of grotesques lifted from the canon of Southern literature with additional fever-pitch dialogue from every drug-addiction novel ever written.
Steel is another young pasticheur refashioning the music of the past for the modern audience. Times, Sunday Times
It is a rich pastiche of a reading, marked by a criss-cross of impulses and purposes that we routinely experience as we read student writing, and the comments do a fairly good job of expressing the teacher's concerns to the student.
Pundits argue still, but no one gainsays that such involvement and determination created something more than a gestural pastiche.
You hear it most often when people discuss art forgery or pastiche. Times, Sunday Times
At the moment the TVs broadcast a repeating loop of one of the Guerilla News Network's pastiched send-ups of Bush's war yammer from last year - another scathing and witty but oft-screened bit of insurgent Final Cut Pro handiwork.
Neither is an admirer of country house period pastiche. Times, Sunday Times
And Chu-Chi Face, in which Nichola McAuliffe's sexy baroness runs rings around Brian Blessed's Vulgarian baron, is even more clearly than before a pastiche of Lehar operetta.
The recognition of pastiched materials in works of art appealed to a particular mode of aesthetic pleasure that coexisted with others at a given point in the past.
In Sean, Landers sneaks into art history by camouflaging his name, writ very large, amid a pastiche of colorful forms from Woman with a Flower and other works.
His canvases are pastiches, literally layered with familiar figures that seem to float in and mingle - Porky Pig, National Geographic primitives, and naked women with bodies splayed in standard porn poses.
Jill Lloyd points out in her catalogue essay that the collage approach of Schad's Dadaist years carries over into the seemingly illogical and frequently pastiched backgrounds and props of the later portraits.
Mr. Jacobs, having ditched his 60's futurist pastiche from last season, had worked like a dog to turn out a brilliant collection of unpornographic, unironic romanticism: flirty tea dresses, Virginia Woolf coats in denim tweed and gorgeous panne velvet flapper frocks. Marc Jacobs, Circa 2003: Long Hair, Neck Brace & Sweaty (PHOTO)
The genre is wider and more experimental and now has the element of pastiche.
Ovenden is also an authority on Victorian photography, on which he has published several books, and in the late 1970s he was involved in a scandal involving faked or pastiched photographs in 19th-century style.
‘I was keen to write a pantomime as a pastiche of a classic tale of derring-do,’ said Richard.
You'll have seen the madcap clowning, close harmony singing, movie pastiches and magic performed by various performers in various guises.
It's a wonderful pastiche complete with intricate guitars, massive melodies, heavenly harmonies, pop vibrancy, indie licks, and really astute attitude.
His style is remarkable for its grotesquerie, its implicit use of European philosophy, and its pastiches of different languages and dialects.
Only he would seize on the effervescent cinematic potential of anything from Lund's ability to wiggle her ears to a chance to pastiche an hour of Paris, Texas in two minutes flat.
Yet he was never a pasticheur and remained a committed Modernist.
Talladega Nights is a more refined version of the kind of anarchic, semi-improvised comedy that we saw in Anchorman, with the added bonus of being a dead-on pastiche of the Hollywood biopic genre.
Virtuose pastiches on Spanish baroque poetry in frills, and beside them folksong variations of rustic themes, were characteristic elements in the renewal during the 1920s south of the Pyrenees, and they distinguish it undeniably from the manifestos up by the Nobel Prize in Literature 1977 - Presentation Speech
But the Dears are far more than pasticheurs: they layer their constructions intricately, adding soul, funk, strings, brass and even hints of prog to their sprawling, multisectioned songs, with mesmerising results.
In this regard, he treats the history and nature of parody, antinovels, pastiches, caricatures, commentary, allusion, imitations, and other textual relations.
This is a persuasive argument, one in which DeLillo's novel does not itself ‘exhibit the ahistoricism and pastiched depthlessness often associated with postmodernism’.
There are those to whom the Strokes sound fresh and there are others to whom they sound like pasticheurs of a certain type of 1970s rock.
An ambitious pastiche of Hollywood noirs, pulp comic books of the '50s and classic science fiction, the film was created entirely with computers.
The layout fuses a pastiche of 90s chrome and 70s retro with a swinging 60's colour scheme of greens, burgundies and blues.
Great Regulars: In my experience, pastiche, hyper-allusiveness and associative logic contribute just as much to the texture of everyday communication as they do to making up postmodern literature and "Simpsons" episodes and Mitsubishi commercials. Archive 2009-05-01
Although often compared to Las Vegas, Orlando, Hong Kong or Singapore, the sheikhdom is more like their collective summation: a pastiche of the big, the bad, and the ugly. Boing Boing: July 10, 2005 - July 16, 2005 Archives
In addition to vivid imagery, another shared stylistic trait is that of pastiche.
The amateur composer's output is usually small and pastiche.
This metal / techno/pastiche music is what really directs the film, what makes the images move.
The preceding chapter, ‘A Paper out of the Spectator’, is universally acclaimed as one of the most brilliant tours de force in Thackeray's prose, containing as it does a brilliant pastiche of Addison.
Many of Pasolini's films are neorealist influenced - he described himself as a pasticheur, given to ‘stylistic contamination.’
A piece on the May blackouts in Moscow is written as a pastiche of four short essays by Lu Xun.
Peter Baker's bathroom is a brilliant pastiche of expensive interior design.
Most prominent is Kevin, the sloe-eyed, dull-witted actor played by Dermot Mulroney almost as a pastiche of Keanu Reeves.
The band ricocheted from one genre to another, often stopping to blend elements into a kicky pastiche of jump blues, beat poetry and lacerating alt-rock/rap.
We were going to pastiche - to model - the whole book after four beginnings of other books: one, for example, was La Vita Nuova, and another was The Journals of Lewis and Clark.
I thought a pastiche of that style would be rather a good way forward. Times, Sunday Times
A small crowd congregated in the cozy confines of the Victory Café on this dark and stormy night to enjoy the duo's literate pop pastiches.
The layout fuses a pastiche of 90s chrome and 70s retro with a swinging 60's colour scheme of greens, burgundies and blues.
He was a virtuoso fabulist, whose literary hoaxes and counterfeits verged on pastiche.
Peter Baker's bathroom is a brilliant pastiche of expensive interior design.
Brambell appears heralded by a piece of incidental music that pastiches Ron Grainer's famous ‘Old Ned’ theme.
Could you describe the cut and its relationship to formal art movements, collage, and pastiche?
But it wasn't pastiche; he was working in the style of mid-late 20th century tonal symphonists, if such a style had really existed.
He has a gift for pastiche.
While the film is a pastiche of different elements of various movies, we wanted it to remain sincere and sweet.
There's no bite or edge to this movie, though; it's goofy, soft-centred romcom slush, with some very half-hearted Bollywood pastiche.
Remarkably, given the regard in which Led Zeppelin are held, none of it sounds like pastiche, possibly because these nods to the past are surrounded by music that fixes its gaze firmly forward.
His King Charles's Galliard also is a pastiche of older music; Cordell adapted it from his score to the film Cromwell.
In this situation, parody finds itself without a vocation; it has lived, and that strange new thing pastiche comes to take its place.
A postmodern pastiche of popular music styles and hits, the film used songs and music ranging from Madonna and the Beatles to Dolly Parton and Kiss.
Virtuose pastiches on Spanish baroque poetry in frills, and beside them folksong variations of rustic themes, were characteristic elements in the renewal during the 1920s south of the Pyrenees, and they distinguish it undeniably from the manifestos up by the Nobel Prize in Literature 1977 - Presentation Speech
The film is a pastiche of screwball and noir, full of fast talk, funny banter, and venetian blind shadows.
But all the way through there's wonderful Thirties pastiche music. Times, Sunday Times
His ostensibly modernist abstractions are constructed, to an extent, like postmodernist pastiches.
In addition, insofar as educational institutions invite students to model themselves on others, a degree of plagiarism and pastiche are built into the acquiring of creative skills.
Gimblett's ostensibly modernist abstractions are constructed, to an extent, like postmodernist pastiches.
It is a rich pastiche of a reading, marked by a criss-cross of impulses and purposes that we routinely experience as we read student writing, and the comments do a fairly good job of expressing the teacher's concerns to the student.
As Mary Carruthers observes, such allegorical games were made possible by a common figural language: A cento is a playful poem that is made up of a pastiche of half-lines and phrases from a canonical poet; it cannot succeed except for an audience who know the original poet as intimately as does the composer of the cento. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
It's meant to be a pastiche of great classical music.
He was a chancer and pasticheur who left huge debts everywhere he went. Times, Sunday Times
They included copies of genuine drawings and prints, as well as pastiches in the style of his chosen artists.
There is no whiff of pastiche or parody. Times, Sunday Times
So despite the fact that the commercial is quite clearly a pastiche of Bruce Lee movie scenes and video game cliches, it has been branded as insulting.
In addition to vivid imagery, another shared stylistic trait is that of pastiche.
The movie is essentially a pastiche of various cinematic references from that era.

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