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Sentence Examples It's meant as a fable, with elements of parody and literary criticism thrown in by the author to keep everybody guessing. I can't figure out if you're a real feminist or a guy doing a parody of a misandrist feminist. The film is therefore a parody of a foreign educational movie with a hint of a mock-heroic tone. Never before has a parody of a mini-series been more poised for showers of accolades. So I thought I'd indulge myself, after all this tsuris, by writing a paper with my own title parody, albeit on a quite different subject. Because each of them exists as a parody of a different genre, each episode should take on the trappings of that genre. The show's use of parody also protected it from accusations of being ideologically conservative. The plot is a baffling array of gangster parody nonsense, sexist claptrap and kidnap chaos. She swung her hips in what looked like a parody of an uncoordinated child learning to hula-hoop. The two watched the parody of a checkers game in silence for a few moments, relaxing in the mood of the evening. Cast members pose as correspondents as they parody mainstream media's failure to provide robust, independent journalism. As one expects of Elton, it's all done with slapstick humour, parody, irony and lots of absurd action. The former is a jazz march parody that layers high-pitched whistling flute over a muted trumpet and slow, rolling drum hits. The first two authors, on the face of it, simply parody a genre, a technique at least as old as Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. What's worse is that the slow-motion fight sequence in which Peter fights a bully slides almost into a parody of that film's innovative effects. The show is a result of North's belief that our bootylicious pop-culture world is just so ripe for parody. Voltaire's Candide, in which Pangloss takes the place of Mentor, will parody the genre. In this hilarious parody of the contemporary nightclub scene, four bouncers portray over 30 different characters. I looked forward to that, and began reading avidly, but soon the sonnets went off into a very cheapjack self parody, and I thought oh, how easy! If you wanted to parody this sort of music, you would come up with the exact same thing you were attempting to ridicule. Show More Sentences If The Fourth Man leaves us steeped in irony, as a properly postmodern parody of an art film should do, then it also leaves us with a problem. I performed a parody of running as I struggled to escape with my useless left ankle. A funny parody scene of the movie was shown, while Homer grimaced at his movie heroes cavorting and caterwauling. Using NWA's original lyrics, Hack has no opportunity to parody the hip hop vernacular, as these rejected video scripts would appear to do. A parody of a leading man, Campbell fronts a classic profile, but he's just a little too angular and bug-eyed. The visuals are all extremely cartoonish, a style that works best for such a parody. Having now evolved into a mature form, the Asian way no longer appears as the glaring parody it once seemed in bygone eras. The picture is good at spoofing the hermetic atmosphere of academia without going overboard into parody or caricature. Dispraise too was a normal folklore genre in Imerina, as can be seen in some hainteny that parody praise poems. He occasionally invents grotesquely exaggerated success stories in a self-mocking parody of his frustrated bourgeois ambitions. He walks a Dalmatian down the street and carries a black-and-white spotted banner in a parody of identity and affiliation. The end was sad, the wasted figure in a wheelchair being lifted into a helicopter sketching a parody of the brave gestures of old. Miranda, weak-headed victim of a self-imposed dualism, is a nightmare parody of the figure of the artist in Browning. Another boy did a grotesque parody of a monster drawling incoherent, preposterous demands. This is weird, transgressive, mind-bending cinema, reminiscent of silent-era German expressionism, and seasoned with Hollywood musical parody. It was generally a parody or skit on more serious opera, a forerunner of the satirical revue. But this post-World War II system was only a grotesque parody of a gold standard. The droll, witty Harvard Lampoon staff, the prime joshers of the Ivy League, have selected People magazine for their next parody effort. For those thinking this is a parody or a put-on, please note that it is published by World Ahead Publishing. It is their very irony that will appeal to precisely the people whose passions they parody. Show More Sentences Their skits deal with diverse topics ranging from a parody of NPR to psychopathic hitchhikers who catch rides with psychopathic drivers. Is remaking a competitor's commercial with a very different meaning a protected parody? This movie is referencing a show that was such a phenomenon when it was on the air, and we aren't trying to spoof it or parody it in any way. However, only a few of the dozen-strong cast have the requisite style to make the parody trenchant instead of merely silly. Nevertheless, parody remains within the economy of presupposition by its genre's definition. The intention is not to parody the genre, but to affectionately re-create the kind of movie that was popularized by Doris Day. Instead of a romantic revival, they produce a parody of the original drama. Tenderness is pushed nearly to the point of parody in a full-dress tableau that departs from the Renaissance theme. Ganjou nipped his hand and then unhinged his jaw in a sick parody of a human smile. Perhaps the funniest thing is the way they claim it's a parody not of Bush, but of sitcoms. Unfortunately she started writing copy for women's magazines which was beyond parody. Rather, through his pleonastic use of quietness, Mahler seems here to score a parody of sentimentality. Rooney and his fresh and original act, which included a clever rap parody on popular nursery rhymes, went down a bomb. Still covered in blood from his sick parody of a baptism, he smiled with such cruelty that even his most hardened captains turned, sickened. Whenever we film our video game parody skits, we try to include, and harass, as many people in public as we can. The first had been newly choreographed by Ashton and looked for the most part like little more than a pinchbeck parody of a Soviet-style solo. California is in danger of becoming a parody of itself, and The Black Table regrets that the state has so many votes in the electoral college. More naked men are shackled together by their hands and feet in a sickening parody of an orgy. Across the curve of the animal's long neck the butcher's ritual dagger has inscribed a parody of a smile. Her muzzle drew back in a strange parody of a human smile to reveal gleaming fangs the size of traffic cones. Show More Sentences Does having a scatty heroine, rather than a gormless hero, on the case affect the parody? Nearly a lifetime's worth of disappointment had transformed Anders into a parody of his younger self. Celibacy, as commonly understood, is therefore a meaningless parody or travesty of the true formula. This comes as the climax to a positive blizzard of bans, both from Westminster and its pygmy parody at Holyrood. The masks and disguises donned by nearly every character in the play create a dizzying parody of both the theatre itself and society. What, then, is the status of the direct, point-blank parody of bureaucrats scurrying behind blue blinds? Garner looks terribly serious, her plump lips pursed into a parody of determination. The film keeps piling on familiar elements until it feels like it is a parody of the genres. This first one was a gross-out parody of horror movies that made so much money, they couldn't wait to produce this slapdash scatological sequel. Of course there are levels of inauthenticity, from reference and emulation to willful trickery, parody and outright forgery. The self-referential jibes and parody elements work well, as do the innumerable anime in-jokes. I think in general it's a great study of how to push right to the line that separates high drama, melodrama even, from parody. Towards the end of the second act we are presented with a deliberate parody of bad theatre, but it's frankly difficult to tell the difference. The Eye piece is not so much a review as a gentle parody of the literary-biography genre. His film is amusing, but with his parody of the veteran Titoists, he has picked an easy target. Most intriguing was the company's bizarre melding of feminist politics, anticapitalist rhetoric, and parody with quasi-softcore sexploitation. The irreverent flamboyance of pop art, collage, parody and deconstruction made offbeat performance more audience-friendly, more upmarket. Peasants form a large part in the parody and satire of medieval Europe from the fabliaux to plays. If he did, he'd have found himself in a cruel parody of Gilligan's Island, a region of thick mangrove swamps and tribes of headhunters and cannibals. To me, the posing activity of bodybuilding seems very much a parody. Show More Sentences They are self-referential, sculpted by parody or subversive of conventions, and ambitiously re-inventive. Sure, Mitt Romney seems ripe for parody, what with his Leave It to beaver vibe and eye-popping wealth. Palin-Tebow blooper and parody videos are as inextricable from YouTube as salmon is from Alaskan streams. Still, to move from parody to icon at such warp speed is stunning. This strategy does not just incorporate the parody or direct quotation of prior texts, but uses everyday objects as the basis of its allegorical structure. In 2011, the rapper-turned-self parody debuted his first collection, Dw Kanye West. What's really sad is that his opinion piece reads like a parody. An alert soul got hold for the domain allianceforastrongamerica.com and produced a more informative parody. A silver pipe shows a wedding procession of mice, which is a parody on the procession of armed human retainers escorting a bride-to-be to her future home. In this regard, he treats the history and nature of parody, antinovels, pastiches, caricatures, commentary, allusion, imitations, and other textual relations. But, hey, at least Brody gave us one of those TV moments that served as fodder for endless parody! Instead, we have irony, allusion, meta commentary, fragmentation, parody, and pastiche. It may simply be a parody of chivalric romances, as it claims to be. Without context, subtlety, and commentary, a parody begins to look eerily like the scenario it is attempting to skewer. The best driver of his generation has long seemed like a parody of Teutonic self-discipline, utterly ruthless, spookily calm and obsessively single-minded. He is shy, obsessive, self-critical to the point of parody, and liable to spontaneously combust when confronted by anyone who fails to meet his standards. A quick traipse around the site reveals it's no hoax, parody or spoof. Picking up where Elder Eatmore had left off, black entertainers continued to use minstrel antics into the 1940s and 1950s to parody and satirize black folk religion. What started off as a fascinating delve into the secret world of ghost-hunting has become a parody of itself, sinking into a mire of its own making. The hacker group Anonymous said it unmasked the author of an offensive Twitter parody account of school shooter Adam Lanza. Show More Sentences But over time, the concept of cultural appropriation has morphed into a parody of the original idea. You pretty much can't get a better absurdist parody of politicians' vapid sure-is-nice-to-be-here patter than that. A potentially exciting adventure gets bogged down in a self-important and unintentionally disrespectful parody of Native Alaskan spiritual beliefs. While the report could be mistaken for a clever if over-the-top parody clip, it is not. He filmed that part, too, with the host performing parody songs around Los Angeles to establish a precedence of parodic works. But then, this show has always been more than just the parody of right-wing cable punditry it was originally made out to be. All the laborious editing serves slight purpose, and presents the wearying phenomenon of a spoof of a schlock genre that is virtually a parody of itself. Ultimately, the joke is on the audience, as the cast and crew parody and spoof the reality TV genre with insights and a biting intimacy few others could understand or capture. The casting for each of these characters was spot on perfect, especially in the case of Richards, who becomes something of a parody of her own image by the end of the film. Fairly or not, Quayle morphed into a parody that haunted Bush for four years. As a hysterical parody, my bears comically evoke the carnivalesque. She becomes a parody of the stereotype of the intrusive immigrant mother. Inside every characterization lurks the possibility of parody. He is degenerating into a sad parody of himself as we draw closer to the day when this chinless wonder pushes his salivating self forward as the great white hope of the party. You'll like the way Moore has written a real sword-and-sorcery story within the parody, and how the humor actually makes sense in the context of the tale. It is a super-sophisticated parody of the publisher's-memoir genre. They made him watch a parody of his debating style from television's Saturday Night Live. They abjured him to avoid anecdotes where he might misstep. Viewed as a campy parody of the genre, the movie fares better, although it's neither funny enough nor enjoyable enough to be considered watchable. The problem is that Batman was already a parody of the superhero genre. He was lying there, looking up at the star-freckled sky with something like smug amusement twisting his lips, turning his expression into an odd parody of a smile. Show More Sentences His face twisted in a parody of smile as he hoisted the grenade launcher. Similarly, Milizia could see in Bernini's Apollo and Daphne only a monstrous parody of the Apollo Belvedere, and he utterly condemned the Saint Bibiana. When the Carry On team decided to parody the horror genre, it was perhaps inevitable that they would do it in the commercially successful mould of the Hammer films. How does a writer parody a work that readers can't identify? The parodist must both imitate and create incongruity in relation to the pretext, and parody has, contrary to pastiche, traditionally had a comic dimension. Here, instead of a subtle critique of Bonifacio's shortcomings, Tintoretto opted for out-and-out parody in a cheeky pastiche of the late artist's approach. Everything was very intelligently done, in terms of the parody of it. The first, intentionally dry, title of my talk, is in parody of the sober, positivistic titles one got in the heyday of British structural functionalism. Perhaps he meant his play to be a parody of a pre-war drawing room drama rather than the travesty that was portrayed on the stage of Richmond Theatre. The bull's carcass dragged and hung in a grotesque parody of crucifixion. There's nothing inherently wrong with this type of nostalgia, but when it becomes as emulative and formulaic as it does here, it starts to seem like parody. The stories revel in dualities that parody, skew and ultimately reinvent popular notions of glamour, sophistication, celebrity, sexuality and modernity. Welsh Goldie Lookin' Chain are a parody gangster rap band who are completely uniquea in a certain sense of the word. In 1967 Casino Royale was adapted into a parody Bond film starring David Niven as Sir James Bond and Ursula Andress as Vesper Lynd. Examples of culture jamming mentioned include using corporate-sponsored computers at school to rework and parody corporate advertisements. But this is also a parody of narcissism, just a little detour to eternity. Stone launched a five-part ebook comedy series, eDating Advice from the Bubbameistah, a LOL ROFL parody of edating advice. This was a parody of the infamous Friday Night, Saturday Morning programme, broadcast a week previously. So I handed out lyrics by Allan Sherman, the shticky 1960s parody writer who my father revered and channeled to the end. He's a very complex character and it would be an error to just mythologise, demonise or parody him as a Mad Mullah. Show More Sentences Gu Wuwei's 1916 play The Usurper of State Power adapted both Macbeth and Hamlet as a parody of contemporary events in China. It is Hemingway's first long work and was written as a parody of Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter. Because it is one of the best known poems in the English language, it has frequently been the subject of parody and satire. Caine played Nigel Powers in the 2002 parody Austin Powers in Goldmember, and Alfred Pennyworth in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy. And then there is the endless supply of parody performances like Harry Potter and the Secret Chamberpot of Azerbaijan and Spider-plant Man. It was a formal parody of heroic verse, and it was primarily used for satire. He created a high school journal called The Daily Smirker, a parody of the communist Daily Worker in the spirit of Mad magazine. The professor's explanation was that the poem is really a parody. It was smarming up the customer in a parody of the usual 'because you're worth it' approach. A bucktoothed parody of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is also a big seller as is a sweater depicting yellow snow. It is a parody of the romantic, chivalric aspects of knighthood and a criticism of contemporary social structures and societal norms. He seemed unsure about the tone of the film, which is part parody, part slapstick and too schlocky as a whole. The primary characteristics of Canadian humour are irony, parody, and satire. Verity Stob, a technology columnist for online newspaper The Register, wrote a parody of Torchwood called Under Torch Wood. A parody of a police manual that made fun of the conventions of 1970s British police procedurals like The Sweeney. Well, we had Patrick White, whose tortured poeticisms usually resembled the first prize in a Saul Bellow parody contest. His work, and its use of parody, probably defines the basic premise of pop art better than any other. Apparently comfortable with the parody, he enjoyed the humour of the play and recommended it to others. Read as a grotesquery, into which parody reels off, even Plyushkin turns into a dynamic character, enlivening the novel's deadliest spot. He agreed with Malone that this did not fit their stations in life, but viewed this behaviour as an indication of parody about class differences. Show More Sentences The most devastating of Gaunilo's objections is a parody of Anselm's argument involving an island greater than which nothing can be conceived. This monstrous parody of divine compassion... performs, in the presence of moving picture cameras, a grotesque parody upon the laying on of hands and the healing of the sick. That was the PLO leader I knew, not the PA leader that pathos, incarceration and fatigue had transformed into a caricatural parody of his former self. Dame Tim Curry is a mad transvestite cult sensation in monster mishmash of pop parody, sci-fi spoof and coy sexual daring, pulled off in end-of-pier fashion. While not referring to Byron by name, it was clearly directed at him, and Byron retaliated with The Vision of Judgment, a brilliant parody of Southey's poem. There is enough awareness of this that it is seen in exaggerated form in comedy parody of New Zealanders, such as in the Classic 1970s comedy character Lyn Of Tawa. Leopold Jessner's 1926 production at the Berlin Staatstheater portrayed Claudius's court as a parody of the corrupt and fawning court of Kaiser Wilhelm. A major debate concerns whether the character of Price is meant to be ironic, a parody of the wholesome heroines that were so popular in Regency novels. This real life parody of Viz Comic characters The Real Ale Expletive Deletives unfolded as Yours Truly twitched impatiently behind them at the bar. Two newspapers bought sheds and floated them to parody the work. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one would be stone-hearted not to laugh at a feathered parody of a bird being battered to bits by burly bipolar building site employees. Uptalk is typically associated with young southern Californian females, which leads to stereotypic parody of uptalkers as insecure, shallow or non-intellectual. During the film's theatrical run in Finland, a text explaining that the film was a parody of Hollywood historical epics was added to the opening credits. Rhetoric is no art whatever, but a mere unscientific knack, enslaved to the dominant prejudices, and nothing better than an impostrous parody on the true political art. The text is structured as an interrogation, a topos so broadly exploited in contemporary literature, from Kafka to Volodine, that it is now ripe for parody. Eloise is seduced by the casuistical Nempere, rescued by another libertine, and finally ends up marrying Fitzeustace, a Peacockian parody of the typical Shelleyan Poet. Examples from Classical Literature And what catchpenny ballad writer could not write a parody on them as you have done? It was in three cantos, and was a parody on the English ballad of chevy Chace. Some of the jokes of hegemon, who first introduced dramatic parody, were of a similar description, but more unpleasant. Even Roman parody is not overlooked, nor yet an insight into Roman gastronomy. We have already had occasion to notice it in connexion with Field's parody of Kyd. In form this targe seems to be a burlesque parody of the figure of a Mycenaean shield. No versifier of the present day lends himself so readily to parody as Mr. Kipling. For, what our political elites call democracy so spiritedly is not even a passable parody of a democracy. Aha, you've discovered it's a parody, have you, you sly minx! It is anticipated at the beginning by the dream of Socrates and the parody of Homer. On the other hand, just the rhyme scheme is retained in an unnamed parody of Andre Campra's drinking ariette from his cantata Silene. At every other point the king was an absurd parody of the Professor. Let the creed and commandments even have the saucy homage of parody. The constant drollery is itself in danger of becoming a parody. It is a parody of the warlike epic, but has little in it that is really comic or of literary merit, except perhaps the list of quaint arms assumed by the warriors. As we have seen already with the parody of the women's textbook, the physicality and bookishness of shunga made it an appropriate genre for satire. The bough of a broken pine tree lashed heavily in the blast against the windowpane behind them, as if in parody of a burglar, but they did not turn round. Neither becoming a parody of his past self nor endlessly seeking self-consciously new images, instead he took his creativeness and perfectionism into fresh fields. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of parody? Words that rhyme with parody What is the past tense of parody? What is the plural of parody? What is the adverb for parody? What is the adjective for parody? What is the noun for parody? Translations for parody Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words parodist parodies parodied parodical parodic parochially parodying parol parole Parole paroled parolee 6-letter Words Starting With p pa par paro parod