Example sentences for: genre-bending

How can you use “genre-bending” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Director Steven Soderbergh ( sex, lies and videotape ) wins praise for preserving the humor, unorthodox narrative, and genre-bending of Elmore Leonard's noir-thriller-romance novel.

  • Lethem's latest genre-bending novel, featuring a Brooklyn detective afflicted with Tourette's syndrome, impresses the critics.

  • Other critics rave that "one track after another leaps out at you until you've got 11 new favorite songs" (David Gates, Newsweek ), and that it's 1999's "most relentless gas--laughing or otherwise--of a party album" (Chris Wilman, Entertainment Weekly ). One dissenter takes umbrage at Beck's heavy borrowing from black music: Mike Jenkins writes in the Washington Post that the album "can't escape its minstrel-show undercurrents" and that the album's genre-bending "stunts" sink Beck "deeper in stylistic debt than he can ever repay."


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