Example sentences for: pastiche

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

  • Artists still scorn it as a vulgar pastiche, and the working-class residents of the area resented its being erected as a symbol of penitence for the insurrection of the 1871 Commune — they didn’t feel penitent in the least.

  • It is a short pastiche and parody of jingoist sentiment, swatches from a patriotic after-dinner speech at the local Elks Club, perhaps.

  • Cold Mountain is in fact a willed pastiche of Stephen Crane--that is, modern prose with occasional attacks of nostalgia.

  • Her fiancé, François, a petit bourgeois in behavior, though considering himself the crème de la créme, is aide-de-camp to a general and has the rank of lieutenant, fancies himself as a raconteur and littérateur (having published a pastiche of vers libres and a catalogue raisonné of the works of Oliver North, which was hailed as a chef d'oeuvre), though his ambition is to be a Grand Prix driver.

  • It made all the pâté de foie gras I'd tasted previously seem mere pastiche.


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