melange

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For Lepore, the Constitution is a blueprint of a cathedral, one that has morphed since its inception, rather like New York’s unfinished St. John the Divine with its mélange of architectural styles.

From Los Angeles Times

These wave-cut cliffs, a brittle mélange of ancient claystone and shale, have been eroding on average about a foot a year, exacerbated since the 1980s by a hardened shoreline, intensifying El Niños and, now, sea level rise.

From Los Angeles Times

Thanks to a melange of practical effects, matte paintings, miniatures, models and costly, groundbreaking special effects, Donner achieved a superhero movie that looks unlike anything made in the decades since.

From Salon

One software forensics expert who took up the challenge soon determined that the “evidence” was a mélange of random IP addresses, gibberish, files that had been modified long after the election, and so-called packet captures of vote heists that didn’t fit any known packet-capture format.

From Slate

The catalog for Mitchell’s posthumous Corcoran show in 1979 notes that a group of dream-influenced paintings, including one called Fragments From the Apocalypse, were exhibited before he visited Vietnam, and closely resemble his painting The Saigon Follies, “with its melange of grotesque images.”

From Slate