How to Use pastiche in a Sentence

pastiche

noun

• With this work she goes beyond pastiche.
• The house is decorated in a pastiche of Asian styles.
• The research paper was essentially a pastiche made up of passages from different sources.
• His earlier building designs were pastiches based on classical forms.
• That song was one of the duo’s finest, a Motown pastiche full of wit, melody and heart.
  — Jude Rogers, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2017
• But, as the minutes tick by—more than eighty of them, by my count—the appeal of the pastiche wears thin.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2022
• Yet Blood Drive is not a response to the dystopian fears of 2017, but a pastiche of old dystopias.
  — Sarah Marshall, New Republic, 23 June 2017
• This is not to say that all Mr. Geary’s pastiches are first-rate.
  — Henry Hitchings, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
• This doesn’t change the fact that the novel is a kind of pastiche of past Western novels.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 11 July 2023
• Put through the blender of a machine, Salle’s art becomes a remix: a pastiche of pastiches.
  — Zachary Small, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• There's no script to speak of, just a pastiche of platitudes about the tumultuous decade.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 May 2018
• The conflict is, rather, a pastiche of brief clashes in valleys and farmlands.
  — Bing West, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
• The character became a bit more innocent, and the world became more of a pastiche of the Rankin/Bass films.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2023
• But Into the Woods, a 1986 pastiche of the fairy-tale musical, seems, to me, the capstone of Sondheim’s career.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2021
• Maddin gained renown at the start of his career for his layered and witty pastiches of silent film.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 May 2024
• Early on, of course, the Strokes and their peers earned those same critiques, their sound a knowing pastiche of past alt and indie icons.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2020
• A real bald eagle is made of flesh and feathers and talons — a thing of nature, not a pastiche of concepts.
  — Wyatt Williams, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2017
• But thanks to the gut-punch beauty of his singing, the end result never sounds like a postmodern pastiche.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 16 Mar. 2018
• Even now, after two and a half years, rules around preschool and school feel like a random pastiche that varies wildly from town to town and school to school.
  — Kara Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2022
• With green satin at the neckline and a dramatic mix of black, red, and blue, the look echoed the colors of the South African flag without verging into pastiche.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2018
• That vantage point, as with so much of Star Wars, looks out on a pastiche of earthly genres: Westerns, mob flicks, Bible tales.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2022
• Once the game finally slices off the darker end of its plot, the writers embrace a schlocky, it's-dumb-but-that's-OK action-movie pastiche.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2017
• The 87-minute score has the feel and flow of opera spiked by occasional pastiches of rhumbas or '20s jazz and a minimum of rock.
  — Ricahrd S. Ginell, latimes.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• This complex pastiche reemerged during lockdown as parents had a lot more time to doom-scroll.
  — ELLE, 4 Apr. 2022
• The result is less an evolution of a two-wheeled machine than a pastiche of the many things such a device represents.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2022
• The result is something that feels split between the opera’s 1867 Paris premiere and the everything-all-at-once pop pastiche of today.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2023
• Quotation, pastiche, burlesque and mashups are as old as the Book of Genesis.
  — Hannibal Travis, The Conversation, 22 May 2023
• Paul said the format allows him with each new episode to write in his own style, rather than remain constrained by pastiche throughout the season.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• Lisa Frankenstein is an ’80s pastiche by way of Mary Shelley, with a broken tanning bed taking the place of the usual electrical lab equipment.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
• West’s genre skills are matched by his fondness for the look and feel of the 1980s B-movie, an unmistakable reference that nonetheless transcends pastiche.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024