Used in a Sentence

pastiche

How to use pastiche in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for pastiche.

Editorial note

Their headlines style is a pastiche of British tabloid style.

Examples15
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of pastiche gathered in one view.

noun

a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources

noun

a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pastiche.

noun

a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources

noun

a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work

Example sentences

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Their headlines style is a pastiche of British tabloid style.

2

But the top comment is nit picking on how Tesla isn't really like this pastiche.

3

The cache becomes a pastiche of what the service should have had in the first place - a "GET /starting_tree" handler.

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You end up with a system that's a technological pastiche.

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Not to mention that everything people watch on these TVs is compressed to into a mottled pastiche of crap.

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It is the most ridiculously ham-fisted Mary Sue pastiche that I have ever seen, but the art is nice.

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Do not post anything like this again, and kindly keep the douchey Maxim-magazine pastiche off this site as well.

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It's as if the aim is for an acceptable, homogeous pastiche with the consistency of oatmeal.

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There was no direct plagiarism necessary to create a pastiche.

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[maybe this sounds catty, but if you had to write a pastiche of borges you'd probably come up with this, so perhaps two people simply hit the same idea....]

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It's not original, because it was a pastiche of a whole bunch of preexisting cyberpunk, anime, and sci-fi stories.

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I can feel the point at which I start playing familiar riffs rather than truly improvising; When I've run out of ideas and I'm just writing pastiche.

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IOS and Mac OS both have a penchant for faux-realism and pastiche which always seems strangely incongruous with the austere industrial design.

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This is either very incoherently written, automatically generated or pastiche word salad.

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I love how when writer who knows a huge amount of obscure crap and wraps contorted references to it into an unreadable mess is considered some kind of genius of erudition if the obscure crap involves, say, dead languages, religion and literature, but if it were dungeons and dragons and Harry potter it would be considered at best pop culture pastiche and at worst pathetic.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use pastiche in a sentence?

Their headlines style is a pastiche of British tabloid style.

What does pastiche mean?

a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources

What part of speech is pastiche?

pastiche is commonly used as noun.