Example sentences for: pastiche

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

  • Perhaps a big star comes aboard, declares the script a disaster for reasons of his own, and convinces the studio to hire another writer--or five or six--so that the final shooting script is nothing but a pastiche of scenes from a dozen different drafts.

  • While Mr. Conniff is doubtless aware of the connection, he does not mention the fact that Johnson's poem is throughout a very close and respectful pastiche of the Latin poet Juvenal's Satire III, on the city of Rome.

  • Elena McMahon has been propelled into a demimonde where, as the narrator puts it in a knowing pastiche of official jargon, those "trying to create a context for democracy" are "maybe getting [their] hands a little dirty in the process or just opting out, letting the other guy call it."

  • A day spent watching CNBC is an object lesson in what the word "pastiche" really means.

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


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