pastiche

Example Sentences

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Yale law professor Akhil Amar wrote in an amicus brief that the administration’s historical evidence amounts to “an artful pastiche of misleading, misinterpreted, and/or atypical shards.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

The building is a matte-black pyramid, fitted with 4,407 rooms and 65,000 square feet of gaming space, all flourished with pop-Egyptian pastiche.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025

Flanagan’s pastiche of palatable comfort might be well-meaning and familiar.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2025

Comic pastiche gives way to tender romantic ballads only to explode in musical psychodrama.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2025

The last of these quotations is a pastiche, but the other two are real, and all are typical of the inward-looking style that makes academic writing so tedious.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker