picaresque in the PONS Dictionary

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He switches from one rhetorical mode to another, from a kind of symbolist poetry to grand adventure narrative to picaresque comedy.
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The film has been called picaresque, and was one of the earliest road movies which inspired variations on its theme by other filmmakers.
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Fast-paced, light and humorous in style, many of these narratives can be described as picaresque adventure stories with often a satirical angle towards modern life.
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It is in fact, what it was described as being at the time of its appearance, a picaresque tour couched in the form of a novel.
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Usually, the lyrics of "gatos" are picaresque or humorous (and the dancers frequently stop the music to improvise any occurrence of double meaning).
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It was a picaresque bildungsroman set in a repressive theocratic society which developed out of the ruins of the destroyed old world.
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She also delights in her freedom, while living in a picaresque world where the rules of the aristocracy are left behind.
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He lived a picaresque life including stints as a cowboy, medical doctor and psychologist.
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It is a picaresque novel, and as such may seem uncharacteristically lighthearted given its subject matter.
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It is a kind of mixture of the sotonic and the picaresque.
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