Indeed, his later oeuvre can be viewed as a synthesis of thefts.
"I think of film as a synthesis of all art forms," Mr. Oliveira wrote.
Conservatism must be understood as a synthesis of all three.
But as a synthesis of current American policy, it serves a purpose.
Moving past Serge Diaghilev's definition of ballet as a synthesis of painting, music and dance, Balanchine insisted that dance was primary.
Ms. Whyte, 47, sees her life's calling as a synthesis of many disciplines and interests -- chemistry, mathematics, art history, philosophy and aesthetics.
The Vaishnava-Sahajiya movement developed from the 17th century onward as a synthesis of these various traditions.
Colorfully illustrated, charted and graphed, the busy design is occasionally off-putting, but it serves well as a synthesis of statistics, tips, treatment options and the vagaries of medical economics.
Tatlin, however, had his champions, notably the critic Nikolai Punin, who hymned the tower as "a synthesis of the different types of art" and welcomed the aesthetic cleansing of old forms: "the charred ruins of Europe are now being cleared".
In sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America, democratic change in low and middle-income countries has evolved as a synthesis of local and global ideas, lurching through disruptions, failures, and recoveries.
This month, the Brooklyn Academy of Music is presenting a Goebbels piece entitled "Hashirigaki," which is described as a synthesis of Gertrude Stein's "The Making of Americans" and the Beach Boys' album "Pet Sounds".
