To style-starved men of his generation, Mr. Cincotti's relaxed but polished look - an unlikely hybrid of preppie and swing - represents a new sophistication.

The photo-album-like monoprints from 1975 are unlikely hybrids of New Image painting and Story Art.

Los Angeles's latest hot spot is an unlikely hybrid of modernist architecture and gritty rock 'n' roll.

British politics is an unlikely hybrid of the high and the low: a noble-minded enterprise combined with blood sport.

Gamespy praised its removal of base building and its "seemingly unlikely hybrid" of RTS and RPG genres.

Rock critic Piero Scaruffi described the album as an "unlikely hybrid of My Bloody Valentine's shoegaze-pop, Joy Division's dark-punk, Godspeed You!

Woven meticulously into the landscape and among the indigenous buildings of Marfa, Judd's legacy will also form an unlikely hybrid of international modernism and the Old West, a highly appropriate contradiction.

His big hit, "I'll Be Missing You," was an unlikely hybrid: a hip-hop eulogy based on an old song by the Police, performed by a record executive moonlighting as a rapper.

Old styles find new fans; established meanings get twisted; unlikely hybrids emerge.

The chosen genre of Cary and Jones - food and literature - has blossomed into a small jungle teeming with unlikely hybrids.