genre

People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.

A lot of the culture around movies in the sci-fi/fantasy genre is about deconstructing them ad nauseam.

I came [to personal essays] through the route of, if you want to call it intellection or a kind of interpretive [genre].

You had a great line in your piece on Geoffrey Beene about the “genre” of evening wear.

Phonetic, made-up lyrics are another venerable tradition of folk music, and “pa-rum-pa-pa-pum” is iconic of the genre.

Mrs. Woodbury paints in oils and water-colors; the latter are genre scenes, and among them are several Dutch subjects.

They live in Stockholm, where she paints portraits and genre subjects.

Occasionally this artist has painted genre subjects, but her real success has not been in this direction.

Unfortunately, the art of genre painting did not exist in those days, and that of engraving was in its infancy.

Tout le monde sait que l'Allemagne possede en ce genre des trsors qui ont t jusqu'ici comme enfouis pour la France.