pasticheur

I can spot in seconds that "each purist" is an anagram of "pasticheur" and that "in the new La Scala" is an anagram of "clean as a whistle".

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

Sure, it's fun, but reading it did remind me of Tim Page's eerily similar comments here and there about Adams being a "pasticheur," sewing together patches of music of his own and the influence of others.

Ionarts 2009

This night sees Sherwood playing host to comedians who also mix music with laughter, this week including guitar-assisted pasticheur Rob Deering and indie tale-teller Terry Saunders.

This week's new comedy 2011

Watching this movie, I was constantly thinking of my friend and colleague, the brilliant wit, critic, novelist, translator and pasticheur Gilbert Adair, who died 10 days ago.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – review 2011

Pound, who was by nature a blustering bigot—a humorless jokester—a talentless pasticheur—a confidence man—was now supported by the American state.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

Pound, who was by nature a blustering bigot—a humorless jokester—a talentless pasticheur—a confidence man—was now supported by the American state.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

Well, it does if you are Brit caricaturist, parodist, pasticheur or general masher-upper:

Open Rights Group Needs You! glyn moody 2007

Still, Mr. Brooks is a pasticheur, not a true songwriter, and it says everything about his strictly limited gifts that the most effective production number in the show, "Puttin 'on the Ritz," was written by Irving Berlin.

The Re-'Producers' 2007

Well, it does if you are Brit caricaturist, parodist, pasticheur or general masher-upper:

Archive 2007-03-01 glyn moody 2007

But Gatiss is more than a pasticheur; he has ambitions beyond literary ventriloquism.

The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004