companion piece

noun

|Updated on: 8 Jun 2018

Definition of companion piece

: a work (as of literature) that is associated with and complements another

Recent Examples of companion piece from the Web

Ruscha showed me the book and then, with an appreciative chuckle, brought out a companion piece: a recent exacting homage by a team of Japanese artists, who instead destroyed an early-generation iMac.

— mark rozzo, Vanities, "Ed Ruscha Still Has Plenty More to Say About America," 30 May 2018
Relentless but never showy, The Looming Tower is a worthy companion piece.

— daniel d'addario, Time, "Best TV Shows of 2018 So Far," 30 May 2018
The company premiered two new works by artistic director Ronen Koresh, Inner Sun and Matters of the Heart, which felt like companion pieces.

— ellen dunkel, Philly.com, "Koresh Dance Company astonishes again with 'Inner Sun'," 27 Apr. 2018
The new film is an excellent companion piece, and includes scenes shot in the Presidio.

— chronicle staff report, San Francisco Chronicle, "Capsule movie reviews for week of April 29," 26 Apr. 2018
Space Odyssey is a solid companion piece to a sci-fi classic, both for newbies trying to figure out the movie's existential questions and longtime HAL lovers who want to know everything about two guys and their grand movie mission.

— brian truitt, USA TODAY, "'2001: A Space Odyssey': Book celebrates 50th anniversary of sci-fi movie masterpiece," 3 Apr. 2018
These two are companion pieces that tell two different complementing stories.

— matt miller, Esquire, "Should You Read Annihilation Before Seeing The Movie?," 22 Feb. 2018
But a companion piece of legislation from Sen. Bill Dodd, S.B. 1088, faced substantial resistance.

— david r. baker, San Francisco Chronicle, "Changes promised for wildfire bill that sparked utility spending fears," 17 Apr. 2018
The Initiative’s project is in many ways a companion piece to the work that the Southern Poverty Law Center, the nation’s top legal advocate for victims of hate crimes, began in Montgomery with the Civil Rights Memorial in 1989.

— New York Times, "In Montgomery, a City Embedded With Pain, Finding Progress," 27 Feb. 2018

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