pastiche|pastiches in English

noun

[pas·tiche || pæ'stɪːʃ]

creation from a number of different sources; work created mainly using techniques or styles borrowed from other artists

Use "pastiche|pastiches" in a sentence

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. The earliest examples of this style in Sicily lacked individuality and were typically heavy-handed pastiches of buildings seen by Sicilian visitors to Rome, Florence, and Naples.

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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.

24. In addition, Farmer's A Feast Unknown, and its two sequels Lord of the Trees and The Mad Goblin, are pastiches of the Tarzan and Doc Savage stories, with the premise that they tell the story of the real characters the fictional characters are based upon.

25. Robert Jordan Chronology A Conan Chronology by Robert Jordan (1987) was the attempt of Conan writer Robert Jordan to create a new Chronology including all Conan material written up to that point, including fifteen of the first sixteen volumes of the series of Conan pastiches published by Tor Books (omitting the eighth, Conan the Valorous).