pastiche in English

noun
1
an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period.
the operetta is a pastiche of 18th century styles
verb
1
imitate the style of (an artist or work).
Gauguin took himself to a Pacific island and pastiched the primitive art he found there

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1. a pastiche of the classic detective story.

2. The film is a skilful, witty pastiche of 'Jaws'.

3. This elaborate pastiche was too much for me.

4. 12 The film is a skilful, witty pastiche of 'Jaws'.

5. She's an expert in the art of pastiche and parody.

6. Jong's novel is a pastiche of journals, letters, and interviews.

7. And one of these hands may wield the instrument of pastiche.

8. Collage and pastiche are two important parody techniques employed in Ulysses.

9. Without the space, though, the rendering might be an ill-conceived pastiche.

10. Lifestyle carpet tiles in Pastiche, teamed with the Country border range, by Heuga.

11. With collage and pastiche, the stylistic practice enhances the theme of the novel.

12. Pastiche and lack of originality in popular culture is therefore seen as the result.

13. The modified Mercalli scale is a pastiche of psychological, engineering, and geological criteria.

14. The genre is wider and more experimental and now has the element of pastiche.

15. “The Bloodied Ivy” is an interesting but sometimes imprecise pastiche of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mysteries

16. But this is quite clearly a pastiche by two journalists desperate to match the efforts of rival newspapers.

17. Moore’s waterlogged narration, written in Melville-esque pastiche and too stuffed with the “avasts” and “Belikes” and “methinks” to hurry the legend

18. And if you have a song called ‘River Of Blood’, it should be soul-Blanchingly terrifying, not a flimsy 13th Floor Elevators pastiche

19. Balefires is a pretty apt title, as the majority of this is what some might call dark fantasy, or fantasy and horror, barring the De Camp pastiche of A Land Of Romance

20. A stark, Aesture exterior was unassuming, but the house interior itself was maximalism at its finest, garish reds clashing with gold gilded statues, a pastiche of mosaics and tiles littered around the house

21. Balefires is a pretty apt title, as the majority of this is what some might call dark fantasy, or fantasy and horror, barring the De Camp pastiche of A Land Of Romance

22. 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.

23. Focusing on reworks of material from 2005's back-to-the-roots electro-pop experiment Chasm, Bricolages features a cross-cultural and cross-generational batch of remixers including Cornelius, whose playful sense of pastiche is to current hipster Japanese pop what Sakamoto's Yellow Magic Orchestra was a quarter-century before;

24. What is most impressive is the way in which Bazes switches styles and argot; the scenes set in the 17th century, in particular, are rendered in a witty pastiche of Defoe and Fielding whilst the contemporary scenes are conveyed through the eyes of multiple protagonists, each represented by a different mode of expression (most notably, the heavy