(n.) A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a new book just published called So Far, So Bad , written well before the Closer farrago, French journalist Cécile Amar, quotes Trierweiler confessing that "François has no emotion".
(2) The truth is that Britain's defence strategy has become a farrago of dogmas, traditions, maxims and cliches, most of them born of the second world war, the cold war and Tony Blair's fixation with fighting Muslims.
(3) The answer does not lie in false techno-fixes or the faux-democratic farrago of the government-business funded Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef .
(4) #birdsonaplane #starlingsindistress May 8, 2017 The farrago reached its denouement, according to Dolganov, when airport staff played a recording entitled “starlings in distress” to try to scare the bird away, but it was never found and the flight was cancelled.
(5) These Super Sunday-ish collisions are so often presented in a farrago of swirling overstatement – seasons defined, destiny shaped, lives ruined, civilisations decimated – but Wenger will take encouragement from this performance.
(6) Actually, I lied – that is not the weirdest thing about this whole farrago.
(7) It is the dance up on the stage, which looks a farrago, that seems the distraction.
(8) From a farrago of post-feminist disdain, that last judgment was the most eccentric of all.
(9) The Death Star - the set of next #StarWars film at @PinewoodStudios to see benefits of film tax credits August 13, 2015 There’s good and bad news about the spin-offs Kennedy revealed to EW that Disney-owned Lucasfilm are still working on the ‘anthology’ film, rumoured to focus on bounty hunter Boba Fett, the film from which Josh Trank was unceremoniously dumped in April at the height of the whole Fantastic Four farrago.
(10) Frankly, when he was reappointed 18 months ago this World Cup was turning into a nightmare for the host nation, a farrago of structural problems, vertiginous anxiety and a team who had slipped to 22nd in the Fifa rankings.
(11) Further evidence that the Spaniard is unaffected by the Real Madrid transfer farrago came when Patrick van Anholt raced clear.
(12) But I just couldn't do it; I got stuck, wrote this farrago of a play.
(13) The biography of Mr Nuttall that has appeared at times on his website appears to be a complex farrago of exaggerations, half-truths and untruths that have unravelled as his run for the vacant Stoke-on-Trent Central seat has put him under more scrutiny than usual.
(14) Every last one of them was a farrago of wonkishness, insincerity, and cliche, polemical half-truths and bits of old stump speeches, mashed-up press releases and policy statements, reheated for popular consumption in some of the dullest American prose imaginable.
(15) I suspect the non-dom farrago is also a moral issue and the fact that 115 non-doms pay £9bn in income tax – and the government could lose serious money – doesn’t matter.
(16) Supporters of The Weinstein Company point out that the production company had dropped the earlier copyright claim prior to the farrago surrounding The Butler .
(17) What a farrago of self-regarding, self-congratulatory self-exculpation it was!
(18) Beyond the Farage farragos, one Demetri Marchessini, a Ukip donor, paid for an advert in the Telegraph to announce his abhorrence of homosexuality.
(19) The answer is Mail Online , an inspired farrago of rolling clickbait that has been a runaway commercial success for its corporate parent ever since it was launched.
(20) The farrago Trump has created on healthcare is consequential and shameful.
Melange
Definition:
(n.) A mixture; a medley.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultimately, the judgments combine to make a particularly peculiar melange: among the plaintiffs there is a mix of economic pessimism and insecure nationalism with a shot of nostalgia for the Deutschmark.
(2) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
(3) I choose the halibut fillet with scallops, dauphinoise potatoes, veg melange and pesto tapenade.
(4) The regime of thermal treatment applied to the ice-cream melange produced bactericidal effect on the Enterococcus microflora.
(5) Each chapter is a melange of storylines building to an end of chapter cliffhanger that hooks the reader as firmly as Brookie’s go-to-ad-break jeopardy.
(6) He finds meaning in the melange of largely bad food he was served as a child and revels in his love affair with trains that is now deprived him by his immobile condition.
(7) The truth is that the center of gravity for many international manufacturing companies has long ago scattered from a single base in the US to a global melange of places with cheap labor and lower taxes.
(8) Previous studies have demonstrated that chronic exposure of rats to a melange of ultra-mild stressors causes an antidepressant-reversible decrease in the intake of palatable weak sucrose solutions, as well as other evidence of insensitivity to rewards.
(9) Roman Polanski then made it into a film that, despite being a melange of confused accents (every single actor is speaking in an accent other than their own – and, boy, you don’t forget it), was his most enjoyable movie for years.
(10) They were fine with her Poem For Dzhokhar, too: "Anything that emotionally affects me becomes part of the melange of thoughts, and then art, that I create."
(11) Azonutril 25 was given as nutritive melange, maintaining a calorie-nitrogen ratio of 150 to 200 calories for every added gram of nitrogen.
(12) It may be that the major direct effect of MTX on epidermal cell proliferation is complemented or even mediated by subtle immunoregulatory effects on the melange of cells in the affected skin and the systemic immune response.
(13) A deliriously tragic-comic autobiopic, with startling unmatched editing and a melange of elevating music sources, it became Kuchar's signature movie.
(14) They may be related also to the activity of mycobacterial adjuvant as a vehicle for the induction of delayed hypersensitivity on the basis that this melange activates macrophages to phagocytose and enzymatically degrade macromolecular antigens rapidly.
(15) The landscape stays stunningly harsh all the way across to the Apache Indian homelands of southern Arizona, where the mining camp-cum-artists' community of Bisbee adds another take on this classic American melange.
(16) In just 17 days, the pair recorded the album Let’s Dance, an irresistible melange of funk and pop that became Bowie’s most popular album ever, but saw him abdicate from his decade-long position on rock music’s cutting edge.
(17) Summarized results of five-year microbiologic studies on the production of dried egg products (white of egg, yolk, and melange), are presented.
(18) His quip that no one will find out what he got up to in City Hall because everything incriminating had been shredded; his cheap oil deal with Venezuela; and his failure to deal adequately with the toxic, largely unsubstantiated melange of allegations levelled by the Evening Standard against his then equalities adviser Lee Jasper .
(19) In freezing the ice-cream melange the amount of Enterococcus microflora dropped from 3.2 to 3.3 times.
(20) To accomplish the release of the gas, huge quantities of water are injected at high pressure together with a melange of toxic chemicals that can contaminate water supplies and rivers.