melding

In its day, this piece must simply have seemed noncommital, or wrong-headed – or a weird attempt at melding Pop and Color Field.

"The process was very much a melding of soft and hard comedy," says Mumolo.

All this suggests the Democrats stand largely for the expansion of crony capitalism, the melding of corporate power and state.

Dylan cannot, of course, keep from importing his own style and preferences and melding it with the 1940s sound.