It reads like a pastiche of ideas that poll well (especially in the Base).
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The self-help section is an expansive pastiche, and within it are books both shallow and weighty.
The execrable pastiche bears no relation to the attitude of most Westerners or their governments to Islam.
Nor did the Rolling Stones with their pastiche of American blues, although some preferred their fiercer music.
It doesn't help that Schumacher, in his wisdom, has styled the story-within-the-story as a lurid MTV noir pastiche.
Ms. ARENS: Even if you accept postmodern literature pastiche as a kind of deconstruction of an untenable political viewpoint.
Kim's history is a pastiche of fact, rumor and not a little romance.
For all Tepebasi's dome-and-minaret orthodoxy, the practical merits of reinforced concrete over masonry mean they got barely a pastiche.
This may upset traditionalists and those who worry that they are being served up a pastiche of the past.
But Mr Prasad warned that the redesign process could result in a "pastiche".
Without claiming to explain what probably nobody can explain, Ms Wullschlager records Chagall's artistic slide into repetition, pastiche and sentimentality.
Jarmusch lacks for nothing in his deadpan pastiche of spy thrillers, but some viewers may experience a residual, vulgar longing for the real thing.
Sometimes, the men and women who are the advertisements for that brand can become consumed by the image and evolve into a pastiche of it.
It starts as a fifties war-of-the-worlds pastiche: an alien life-form arrives in a meteor and quickly mutates, threatening to destroy Arizona as we know it.
The story is a pastiche of classic sci-fi adventures, with Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow as an aviator and reporter on the trail of a doomsday cult.
But his nimble intelligence and excellent eye failed to produce more than a pictorial pastiche that was flat and one-dimensional or a shallow sendup of the past.
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Officials said the cathedral was a "modest" building which might be dominated by a large monument and they were keen to avoid anything which was a "pastiche".
Thomas Newman, The Good German: An adventurous spirit creates something both old and new, leaving the listener with much more than a pastiche of golden age scores.
In my prior reviews I called the Atlas Shrugged I film the Cliffs Notes version of the epic novel and Atlas II a pastiche of excerpts.
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These were existential no pastiche and extremely controversial.
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Mr. TRIMBLE: Inevitably, your first record, you're gonna wear those influences on your sleeve and yet we didn't want to make a record that sounded like a kind of pastiche late '60s record.
The exposition's buildings turned out to be mostly neo-classical pastiche, but the fair did bequeath a sense of cultural pride and, more tangibly, the makings of a new home for the Art Institute.
First is the toilsome restoration of a flowery pastiche of Gothic and Renaissance motifs that made up the original decorations of the building, as it was designed by the architect Pierre Cuypers, in 1876, and finished nine years later.
So it begins with this wonderful pastiche of a programme called Face To Face, which had John Freeman, and the camera focused tight genre, I was going to say the interviewee, but you might say the victim was a better term.
In a pastiche of Delacroix, the card featured the minister's various villains, notably Napoleon for the imperial madness that helped spawn conflict with Germany, and his heroes, notably Clemenceau and de Gaulle for resisting Germany in the first and second world wars.
It is hard to divine the purpose behind this pastiche: is the director, Peyton Reed, making sport of the innocent froth that passed for romance in a more innocent era, or is he aiming to revive it as a straight exercise in retro style?
The way of living he hopes to export isn't the cultural pastiche of gauchos and asados one might encounter at Epcot (though there will be a version of his Buenos Aires tango show), but instead embraces simple ideas, like the indoor-outdoor living in which he revels.
While at least some of these thefts must surely exist in the novel, the Wachowskis became masters of genre pastiche at the outset of that 1999 mega-franchise, and their visual take on this material feels cobbled-together from the spare parts of better films, including their own.
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