This sort of humorous pastiche is common, and is rarely resented or resisted by the original artists. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to the Editor] Reference
All these characters, whom I love reading about, esp. in pastiche, must be part of this Secret History. From Wordnik.com. [Book Cover Smackdown! 'Ender's Game' vs. 'Crossovers 2' vs. 'The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard'] Reference
Even as artistic theory values repetition and familiarity in pastiche and other ways, law is not keeping up. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
A pastel color pastiche is offset by the presence of seemingly endless light-grade wooden construction/renovation. From Wordnik.com. [Something’s Hiding In Here « DESIGNPHILADELPHIA] Reference
Does HRH like any modern building — apart from pastiche, that is?. From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
But behind the pastiche is a serious and well-considered construction of how to reprocess imagery. From Wordnik.com. [Conrad Ventur « KN | KITSUNE NOIR] Reference
A pastiche is a composition in another artist's manner, without satirical intent an exercice de style. From Wordnik.com. ['The Oxford Book of Parodies'] Reference
Less a spoof and more of a pastiche is the character of Professor Gamble, a renegade from the Avengers Annual #22. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
They neither read like Obama (a technique satirists call pastiche) nor a comic exaggeration of Obama (a method they call parody). From Wordnik.com. [Chris Kelly: Laura Ingraham's New Book Could Be Better] Reference
Is there more than one definition of "pastiche" going on here?. From Wordnik.com. [A Friday Looking Back on Year Two (a sort of ‘Four Decades’ footnote) | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
And this particular kind of pastiche actually contributed to the failures in Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [Lots of Zeroes] Reference
In fact, HyperMacbeth works as a kind of pastiche on the conventions of annotating Shakespeare on the Web. From Wordnik.com. [Sound and Fury of HyperMacbeth] Reference
In older Holmes fandom, there's still a fiercely contended dividing line considered between fanfiction and "pastiche" i.e. From Wordnik.com. [What is Fanfiction?] Reference
Or, to be more precise, its refusal to engage in the kind of pastiche that frequently characterizes the neo-Victorian novel. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
It's a kind of pastiche of great sci fi-fantasy-epic blockbusters by Cameron's peers, including his own. From Wordnik.com. [InstaPunk] Reference
It's the best kind of pastiche, evoking the original while at the same time being very much its own thing. From Wordnik.com. [Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
Eclipses sounds almost too-much at home with the kosmiche sound, reaching into a kind of pastiche territory. From Wordnik.com. [The Line Of Best Fit] Reference
New Statesman sees the book as "pastiche", but an example of which that requires "sleuthing or guesswork on the part of the reader". From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
A postmodernist pastiche with heart -- and style to burn. From Wordnik.com. [Ansen's Top 15] Reference
Why include that clip in your pastiche of political insanity?. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Denvir: Jon Stewart, Your Rally Is Laughing-at-You Funny] Reference
Maybe it's all some sci-fi pastiche and I'm missing it completely. From Wordnik.com. [TV review: The Deep and Glamour Models, Mum and Me] Reference
"Australia" is a shameless — and shamelessly entertaining — pastiche. From Wordnik.com. [It's Epic] Reference
Nor is the dividing-line between parody and pastiche absolutely clear-cut. From Wordnik.com. ['The Oxford Book of Parodies'] Reference
Modern Austen pastiche is practically an industry, and business is booming. From Wordnik.com. [Not-So-Plain Jane] Reference
Once, additions to historic buildings were a pastiche of the original style. From Wordnik.com. [At home in the world] Reference
You know, about the kinds of references we'd make or the limits to pastiche. From Wordnik.com. [Barenaked Ladies: Same Quirk, Younger Crowd] Reference
The classical-record industry has developed a small but noble niche: pastiche. From Wordnik.com. [D-Major Disney] Reference
The Code Orange warning was based on a pastiche of evidence, none of it definitive. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy Of The Threat] Reference
The other is a pastiche of a fish jumping out of a lake and a giant dam in the background. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Billionaires] Reference
Next comes a pastiche of war imagery, but does MGM think we haven't seen "Saving Private Ryan"?. From Wordnik.com. [Coming Distractions] Reference
We wade through the pastiche of our own time: do you remember when we used to do this, and that?. From Wordnik.com. [Tickled pink] Reference
Yet it's hard not to root for its moonstruck spirit, or to succumb to the panache of the pastiche. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare Less Loved] Reference
The plot, for lack of a better word, is a pastiche of moments from the first two "Twilight" films. From Wordnik.com. [Movie review: 'Twilight' parody 'Vampires Suck' lives up to its name] Reference
Ditto for the rapture, a theory fabricated from a pastiche of Scriptures that have nothing to do with one another. From Wordnik.com. [Predicting The Last Days] Reference
But it was something of a pastiche, with the Edwards stump speech sandwiched between slices of Kerry Team rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [Digital Dispatches] Reference
But take a walk with him in one of San Francisco's pastiche of neighborhoods and learn what American mayoring is all about. From Wordnik.com. [City Slickers] Reference
This big-business satire is a postmodern pastiche of the Capra, Hawks and Sturges rat-a-tat social comedies of the '30s and' 40s. From Wordnik.com. [A Blast Of Hollywood Bile] Reference
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