Also making the book difficult to classify is its mixture of fiction, science, and essay writing.

An odd mixture of fear and fury made her words more brutal than she meant them to be.

This mixture of faith and entrepreneurial spirit has made her a favorite among powerful men.

The mixture of inner heat and outer cold was making my head light.

But it has enough mixture of old and new "to make it interesting," he said.

So, for example, a mixture of letters and numbers makes a good password.

"And you dare tell me that such a mixture makes a good crew?"

Maybe the mixture will make us wiser in the future.

But this mixture of nonsense and polemics made nothing matter much.

"A mixture of the three can make an extremely nasty poison," he said.