mélange

Example Sentences

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Creating an overarching theme for this melange is a perilous job—focus too locally and what should be a high-profile affair feels provincial; spread your vision too widely and the picture you aim to create never snaps into focus.

From The Wall Street Journal

The appellate ruling didn’t engage in artistic criticism, but the work’s artificial origin might be manifest to the discerning eye — its landscape is busy yet indistinct, sort of a melange of green and purple, and the framing doesn’t have any artistic logic — the eye doesn’t know what it’s supposed to be following.

From Los Angeles Times

The vegetable mélange of childhood pot pies and plastic school cafeteria trays.

From Salon

But, Melendez-Badillo says, he's also a colonial subject -- a reality explored on "Debi Tirar Mas Fotos," which features an ingenious melange of traditional sounds including salsa, bomba and plena, with infusions of reggaeton.

From Barron's

But the confluence of these climatological issues is particularly apparent in Big Sur, where waves, storms and wildfire regularly affect its uniquely steep and fragile landscape, made up of a “melange” of rock types especially susceptible to change, said Jonathan Warrick, a U.S.

From Los Angeles Times