Mr. Menzel's "Capricious Summer" (1968) fuses comedy and social commentary in a toothsome admixture set in the Bohemian countryside.

WSJ: Pearls of the Czech New Wave | Before the Spring Was Gone | By David Mermelstein

Why sell a simple commodity when, with the admixture of just the right variations and subclauses, you can make the customer really dizzy?

FORBES: Making Life Complicated

Some, including a committee of experts, thought the site was certainly Neolithic, though with a baffling admixture of Iron Age, Roman and medieval remains.

ECONOMIST: Emile Fradin

The law, passed after six years by a bipartisan admixture of lawmakers, was billed as a measure to streamline the patent process and reduce costly legal fights.

FORBES: Are We Greeks or Romans? New Patent Law Means Challenges for U.S. Innovators

Day after day, as she received the thousands of Jordanians who came to pay their condolences, the yanis, as it is called in Arabic, framed a spirit for which her husband was renowned: courage with an admixture of warmth and charm.

CNN: Talking with a queen

Reality TV may be an awkward admixture of documentary (with its connotations of thousands of hours of footage patiently gathered, redacted by monk-like figures into the purest expression of truth possible in 90 to 120 minutes) and scripted (with its auteurs and Emmys and noble overtones of craft).

FORBES: The hierarchy of reality TV shows (Or: A defense of my desire to be on Survivor)