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genre Noun

— A genre is a style or category of literature, art or music is a popular genre of music.

genre

— noun a kind of literary or artistic work — noun a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique — noun (= writing style) a style of expressing yourself in writing — noun (= music genre) an expressive style of music

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genre English » English

kind type sort style genus class variety species writing style musical style musical genre music genre literary genre form way ware subject stripe stamp specimen race quality mien manner mankind look lineage line item ilk grouping gender description commodity classification clan character category caste breed brand article air

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What genre of music do you like the most?

Which movie genre do you prefer? Comedy or drama?

My favourite genre of music is pop.

I think style and genre are less important factors in making us like music than the individual artist's skills in arrangement and playing of the instrument.

This story belongs clearly to no genre.

The historical novel was a very popular genre.

What's your favourite video game genre?

Stanislaw Lem was a Polish author, a philosopher and a futurologist, representing the genre of science-fiction.

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That genre specifically?

What genre?

For a romance writer, there wasn't one of that genre.

Professor Croknuff, thinking of having to study a new genre of scientific case, refuses to hand over Misora to Farandola, who, angry, declares war on him.

This is a victorian genre picture. These pictures, not always appreciated, have now become to find a certain favor among thecognoscenti.

This is of course symptomatic of a new breed of footballer, as it is indeed symptomatic of your whole genre of player, is it not?

There's some good stuff even in that genre.

Haunted houses are not my genre.

Genre painting?

You're new to this genre.

I am totally versed in the genre of the period.

In a genre thought of as minor, the historical film, he's useless.

They have not invented a genre of picture that Bill Mayhew has not at one time or other been invited to assay.

Such an inferior genre.

I love this photographic genre that catches people almost by surprise.

Help me create a totally new genre of art.

But once I calmed down, I suddenly realized you're not insane at all. You're a pioneer artist in a brand new genre.

Which genre?

Uh, landscape painting? Genre painting?

I'd say it's a by-product of the horror genre.

The horror genre, or Scarlet Cinema as you call it, is a very much underrated art form.

Mr. Fink, they have not invented a genre of picture that Bill Mayhew has not at one time or other been invited to essay.

I'm afraid I don't really understand that genre.

You produce a film in a commercially-proven genre and then after it's a hit, you take the profits from that and make the 12 apostles movies.

I've installed everything we have in the genre.

A genre where the mark?

Circus is an ancient genre.

The first genre responsible for taking Japanese cinema through the tumultuous 70s. was gangster cinema, often depicting cruel street-fighting. of the young yakuza bandits.

I've thought extensively about the unique nature of the Japanese war film. This genre would only depict Japanese characters, but never their enemies.

Do you specialize in a genre?

But her genre is typically feminine.

But he's a big fan of the genre.

At first I was reluctant, until I realized that I had an opportunity here to create an entirely new literary genre. a nonfiction science fiction.

Like alphabetically, or by genre.

I heard tidbits of what Chris has got in mind. the genre and so forth.

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Havel continued writing, changing his genre from plays and essays to speeches, most of which are, in fact, philosophical writings.

At its best, this genre is part of America's gift to the rest of the world.

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