Wondering how to use Pastiche in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as medley or potpourri.
Pastiche meaning
- A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.
- A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
- An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
Synonyms of Pastiche
Using Pastiche
- The main meaning on this page is: A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way. | A musical medley, typically quoting other works. | An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
- Useful related words include: medley, potpourri, musical composition, opus.
- In the example corpus, pastiche often appears in combinations such as: pastiche of, the pastiche, as pastiche.
Context around Pastiche
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pastiche
- In this selection, "pastiche" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ghostwatch, direct, underwhelming, musical, panto and stands stand out and add context to how "pastiche" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a direct pastiche of dc and a ghostwatch pastiche stands out. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pastiche" sits close to words such as ablation, abure and abvp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pastiche
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Happily, London has recently welcomed a pastiche. (7 words)
The pastiche nature is in the details. (7 words)
The rest is a visual pastiche of disconnected moments. (9 words)
There are a lot of made-up groups and songwriters in this movie too, including 's Larraine Newman co-starring as a pastiche Carole King, but there are also real stars appearing in the movie's climax show at the Paramount. (41 words)
Commercial and genre film tropes like these — combined with the creativity of this generation of queer women filmmakers — make for movies “that are very imaginative and very pastiche-y and not realist,” she said. (34 words)
Brash, unapologetic, and digging enthusiastically into a lengthy history of Jeep 4×4 heritage and iconic styling, the Gladiator could be at best a new truck hero, or at worst an overdue pastiche. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
In the video linked above, you can check out pastiche with a Roman patina from Hanna-Barbera.
It could be a paranoid thriller, a romantic comedy, or a pastiche musical.
It’s a victory snatched from the jaws of pastiche; not so much a crash course as a confidence-building exercise for the ravers.
This Italian horror film is a pastiche of a variety of horror genres, from giallo, to folk horror, to found footage.
Commercial and genre film tropes like these — combined with the creativity of this generation of queer women filmmakers — make for movies “that are very imaginative and very pastiche-y and not realist,” she said.
Happily, London has recently welcomed a pastiche.
That’s not a pastiche from or Pierre Poilievre, though it could well be.
The pastiche panto – which both trades on and sends up the conventions and tropes of traditional pantomime – walks something of a tightrope.
What could have been little more than a Ghostwatch pastiche stands out in very different and effective ways.
What remained was a spirited people who buried their cultural differences and came together in a pastiche of ethnic identities and colorful characters.
Like Lobo, Deadpool started out as a parody, as a direct pastiche of DC's Deathstroke.
At best, it's an underwhelming pastiche of east Asian cuisine.
Brash, unapologetic, and digging enthusiastically into a lengthy history of Jeep 4×4 heritage and iconic styling, the Gladiator could be at best a new truck hero, or at worst an overdue pastiche.
The rest is a visual pastiche of disconnected moments.
The trailer stresses all of this in a pastiche of visual nonsense.
Yet beyond that moroseness lay an emotional and sonic depth that perpetuated this precise pastiche of hardcore and noise.
The micro-budget pastiche of monster movies launched the careers of director John Landis and makeup artist Rick Baker.
The pastiche nature is in the details.
There are a lot of made-up groups and songwriters in this movie too, including 's Larraine Newman co-starring as a pastiche Carole King, but there are also real stars appearing in the movie's climax show at the Paramount.
There’s a risk, when you make a movie tie-in like the 2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt, of veering into pastiche.
Common combinations with pastiche
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pastiche of 13×
- the pastiche 3×
- as pastiche 3×
- of pastiche 2×
- in pastiche 2×