(1) In Singapore, however, where a hodgepodge mix of ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indian residents actively aim to maintain what the nation's "founder", Lee Kuan Yew, has termed "racial harmony", supporters are hard to come by.
(2) Unfortunately it is also home to this thing – a fifth-tier multi-colored hodgepodge by Frank Gehry, which opened in 2000 and utterly failed to do for Seattle what his Guggenheim did for Bilbao.
(3) The entrance to Za'atari – now Jordan's fifth largest city – is a chaotic hodgepodge of Syrian refugees, Jordanian citizens, journalists, aid workers, vans and water trucks, with up to 10,000 visitors a day.
(4) Iron Man 2 was a huge disappointment, The Avengers (Iron Man 2½) an aimless hodgepodge and The Dark Knight Rises a pretentious, incoherent mess.
(5) The latter is true of the north-east Aegean, which includes a hodgepodge of islands stretching from lush Samos in the south – just off the coast of Turkey – up to Thassos, 400km to the north and closer to Bulgaria than it is to Athens.
(6) If there is a conceptual framework behind all this, it is as much of a hodgepodge as Skrillex's music.
(7) A hodgepodge alliance of US legislators is finally waking up to the need and opportunity to stand up for citizens' rights , but they will be slow and, don't we know, ineffective and often uninformed .
(8) The TV integration is an awkward hodgepodge of menus and overlays and dead ends.
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.