How To Use Parody In A Sentence

  • He swung the door wide open in a parody of welcome.
  • I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
  • Ondaatje's novels prominently reflected hybrid language and multi-language voice, Mosaic Genre, Style Simulation, and Parody, make the novels be a carnival square.
  • Whenever we film our video game parody skits, we try to include, and harass, as many people in public as we can.
  • Stephen Colbert, the host of the parody talk show “The Colbert Report, ” urged his fans to vote for naming the station segment after him, and they did in large numbers.
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  • Both genres, so formulaic, overdetermined by clichés and stereotypes, are eminently accessible for parody.
  • Because this movie is more than just a parody of that series, and it's also ridiculously funny. The Sun
  • His face twisted in a parody of smile as he hoisted the grenade launcher.
  • Blackface minstrelsy is now often considered to be antiblack parody, and some of it certainly was, but scholars have recently begun to see the songs of Dan Emmett and many other performers in the genre as expressions of desire for the freedoms they saw in the culture of the slaves. A Renegade History of the United States
  • The band's strict avoidance of a ‘stereotypical, gangsta-styled’ video speaks for their desire to avoid parody, and they rejected any script that called for them to present themselves as would-be gangstas.
  • I performed a parody of running as I struggled to escape with my useless left ankle.
  • Blofeldism, an impossible and megalomaniac belief in world domination, is a perfect parody of Nazism and Stalinism —just as empty and just as deluded, although, thanks to 007, not nearly as deadly.
  • He occasionally invents grotesquely exaggerated success stories in a self-mocking parody of his frustrated bourgeois ambitions.
  • A grotesque parody Perhaps that's fine. The Sun
  • Her voice was a ridiculous parody of pre-war royal. Times, Sunday Times
  • I absolutely must not be allowed to wear this in real life for fear of turning into a twirling parody of womanhood. Times, Sunday Times
  • I, myself, am really just a parody and exaggeration of the entity that is me.
  • It was generally a parody or skit on more serious opera, a forerunner of the satirical revue.
  • The Scarlet Capsule" was a parody of the popular 1959 TV series "The Quatermass Experiment".
  • Some things are beyond parody. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Iggys -- more formally know as the Ig Nobel prizes -- are an annual parody of the Nobel prizes. RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
  • Now, almost a decade later, his words sound like self-parody.
  • The festival is based upon the story told in the Book of Esther, a tale of humorous and melodrama parody of palace intrigue, in which the brave Queen Esther and her uncle, Mordecai, save their people from the twisted genocidal plot of the wicked vizar of Persia, Haman. Archive 2006-11-26
  • In this hilarious parody of the contemporary nightclub scene, four bouncers portray over 30 different characters.
  • Elsewhere, we see artist Jude Buffum reflect on the financial crisis also through Mario's lens (and made an open plea for more financial system gaming), saw how Shigeru Miyamoto lifted ancient Japanese legend when creating Super Mario, and wolf-whistled at PopCap's Plants Vs. Zombies doing an absolutely phenomenal job of parodying the ubiquitous bosomy banner ads for free-to-play game Evony (above). Boing Boing
  • His anti-Americanism is shrill to the point of self-parody, and he has no powerful protectors. A Convenient Enemy
  • Memo to Right Wing blowhard pundits: when your parody habitually outmans you in every department, admits his persona is an irredeemable narcissist, Gay Porn Blog, Naked Men Pictures, Nude Males and Gay Erotica
  • 'crowner's quest-law,' he is only parodying, and that closely, a scarcely less ludicrous judgment which had actually been pronounced, not long before, in the Court of Queen's Bench. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852
  • I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
  • I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
  • It entails boy's-adventure jolliness, raffish character comedy, social satire, dialect humor, maybe-metaphorical farce, a parody of morbidly sentimental verse. Books on Southern Humor
  • I can't figure out if you're a real feminist or a guy doing a parody of a misandrist feminist.
  • Through his popularity, an entire subculture has grown up imitating Al and even parodying him.
  • Because this movie is more than just a parody of that series, and it's also ridiculously funny. The Sun
  • She becomes a parody of the stereotype of the intrusive immigrant mother.
  • 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.
  • Perhaps there is even an element of self-parody.
  • Is his dramatic performance appropriate parody or merely amateurish?
  • Once she casts off the self-parodying gloom of her early scenes, we see why she is so often called ‘luminous.’
  • On the contrary, it is a grotesque, undignified parody. Times, Sunday Times
  • The film keeps piling on familiar elements until it feels like it is a parody of the genres (a feeling that the film's final two shots really pound home).
  • The self-referential jibes and parody elements work well, as do the innumerable anime in-jokes.
  • What, then, is the status of the direct, point-blank parody of bureaucrats scurrying behind blue blinds?
  • What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the Judgment Day, and to-morrow into the reed-flute! Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius
  • Whenever Wodehouse writes about an intimidatingly tall and handsome young woman (usually to contrast her with his heroines, who tend to be small and slight in build), he's parodying the "queenly" heroines of many novels at the time, particularly those of Ethel M. Dell (I've actually read an Ethel M. Dell novel and hope to write about it after the shell-shock wears off). Wodehouse the Parodist
  • It's got sex, violence, absurdism, politics (including a wicked parody of Western European and American leaders) and lots and lots of drugs.
  • Yes, it's absolute cobblers, a self-parodying mash-up of fairytale and pop culture. Times, Sunday Times
  • Pop icon ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic made his reputation skewering popular music by means of witty parody lyrics set to the original musical arrangement.
  • And thus, with one line, Jeff Singer connects the dots between the Vietnam dolchstoss legend and Likud irredentism, creating the perfect multicultural self-parody of right-wing asshattery. Matthew Yglesias » Contemptible
  • One of the papers is running a competition in which you've got to parody a well-known author.
  • How does a writer parody a work that readers can't identify?
  • Nearly a lifetime's worth of disappointment had transformed Anders into a parody of his younger self.
  • Although his comment was a parody of the truth, Diana was upset by it.
  • I'm no purist, but I think if you're going to parody the greatest writer in the English language, your takeoff should at least be well written, and stay a lot closer to the form that inspired it.
  • To some, the idea of sexagenarian roommates having fun (and even getting laid) in their old age was too frightening to watch-but that was then, and this is now, where MILFs and even GILFs have their own video series, so how could a respectable parody producer not want to give these old broads their belated XXX bones? AVN Industry News
  • 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.
  • It would involve a new franchise that rifted off of the comedic and parody opportunities of Jack Bauher, 24, and the “war on terror” rhetoric. Row Three » Brace Yourself: Get Smart Trailer - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions
  • It's a strange combination of burlesque - hamming, self-parody, staged pratfalls and the gradual abrasion of the fourth wall - and the truly affecting and sinister.
  • 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.
  • Oh, if you're easily amused, go over to Peter David's blog where he's running segments of a thing called Potato Moon, which is a parody of a fan sequel to Stephenie Meyers 'Twilight books (as well as a parody of the originals); this book, titled Russett Moon, got its author into legal trouble, whereafter she proclaimed some New Agey stuff about the global gestalt mind ... which is where PAD comes into it. Sinking feelings aboard the Seaview
  • 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.
  • But this post-World War II system was only a grotesque parody of a gold standard.
  • He had become a grotesque parody of himself and the gallery at last began to avert its eyes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Voltaire's Candide, in which Pangloss takes the place of Mentor, will parody the genre.
  • The danger being that while the audience accepts when is on stage, his offensiveness is a parody of other people's prejudices (made more piquant by our worry that, at some level, we battle with equally unattractive knee-jerk reactions), that comic tension doesn't always come across in interviews. Ricky Gervais in His Most 'Postmodern' Interview Ever
  • As with the late cinema of Pasolini, it's hard to know where provocation ends and camp self-parody begins.
  • Across the curve of the animal's long neck the butcher's ritual dagger has inscribed a parody of a smile.
  • Somewhere in Time is so sweet that it becomes saccharine, so serious that it becomes self-parody, so earnest that it becomes artificial.
  • Koons's celebrated Rabbit - sometimes nicknamed the Brancusi Bunny - is not simply a parody of kitsch, Brancusi, and minimalism.
  • What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the Les Misérables
  • He's also writing lots of magazine articles, updating his website, publishing every issue of The Realist online and, in his spare time, maintaining what he calls his "cottage industry"-- peddling a digitally colored edition of the infamous "Disneyland Memorial Orgy" parody, created by Mad magazine artist Wally Wood and first published in 1967 as a centerspread in The Realist. Michael Sigman: Satirist Paul Krassner Turning 80, Going Strong
  • A parody of a leading man, Campbell fronts a classic profile, but he's just a little too angular and bug-eyed.
  • It's hard to know where provocation ends and camp self-parody begins.
  • She has become a grotesque parody of her former elegant self.
  • 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.
  • India has always existed for humanity and not for herself", Aurobindo contended at Uttarpara, "and it is for humanity and not for herself that she must be great".26 The inversion of the humanistic aspiration in Hinduism and Islam alike to a parody called communalism is the signal achievement of our secularist historians, not of Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo carried this message of the spirit from Bombay to Bengal, from Baruipur to Kishoreganj
  • Political parody, irony, and satire have not only surged in popularity in recent years, but they have become complexly intertwined with serious political dialogue. Amber Day: Why More Americans Are Being Informed and Entertained by Satire Than Ever Before
  • The show's use of parody also protected it from accusations of being ideologically conservative.
  • It is an original work, a parody. The Sun
  • the parody was just a form of teasing
  • Sayanora, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking may not be as relentlessly intertextual as Ulysses, but this Japanese import is nearly as rich in puns, social commentary, pop-culture parody, and allusions to TV shows, novels, movies, and manga. 04 « March « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
  • We may feel that we have heard it before, but not as if we are reading self-parody.
  • The writing of Across the River and into the Trees (or Across the Street and into the Grill as E.B. White retitled it) drew on his wartime experiences and seemed to merge his exaggerations with his fictional hero to the point of self-parody.
  • His songs have pushed parody to the limit. Times, Sunday Times
  • Richard swallowed his mouthful, leaned back in his seat and polished his glasses in a parody of the learned academics who pontificate on TV. KICK BACK
  • Ganjou nipped his hand and then unhinged his jaw in a sick parody of a human smile.
  • Using NWA's original lyrics, Hack has no opportunity to parody the hip hop vernacular, as these rejected video scripts would appear to do.
  • His personality made him an easy subject for parody.
  • pietism," of what is foolishly called "goody-goody," has long been abroad; a grievously exaggerated dread; a mere parody of rightful jealousy for sincerity in religion. Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
  • The first two volumes were a little too silly and childish for my liking, yet it is a series that has a lot of fun to offer fans of anime, parodying pretty much every genre and major show in the history of animation.
  • The Scarlet Capsule" was a parody of the popular 1959 TV series "The Quatermass Experiment".
  • Some things are beyond parody. Times, Sunday Times
  • I cherished the symbols of dominion so soon to be objects of ridicule or subjects of parody - the plonk of the cricket ball, the stamp of the sentry's boot, the hymns and the silly rituals that spoke of old certitudes.
  • In contrast to many postmodernists, who engage in easy forms of parody when addressing the high-flown art of the past, Schütte has actually had the courage to work from inside the tradition - and risk the comparisons.
  • She could be alarming and intimidating if it weren't for the self-parodying way she 'wears' her persona. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • This (Link courtesy Professor Bainbridge) is a pretty funny parody based on a scene from the original Star Wars movie that has famously been changed a couple of times by George Lucas in reissuing the movie. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Doctored Han Solo Memos, errr, Evidence
  • When I did my parody, Red Sophia, I extrapolated that this poor, magnificent warrior woman was probably getting unbelievably horny waiting for someone to come along who could beat her.
  • It takes genius, however, to cook _bouillabaisse_; and, to parody what De Banville says about his own recipe for making a mechanical "ballade," "en employment ce moyen, on est sur de faire une mauvaise, irremediablement mauvaise Essays in Little
  • A parody, a surrealistic sculpture in green slime.
  • Curiously, though, my boys had recently watched my treasured copy of that brilliant Beatles parody All You Need Is Cash about the semi-legendary Rutles. David Wild: Giving Thanks to Paul, Ringo & the Long and Winding Road
  • Certainly, he made use of all that is available in the repertoire of humour: irony, satire, parody and burlesque.
  • Last month Trevor posted a Wordie list, subtitled Econorrhea, of neologisms and portmanteaux having to do with the economic implosion, which he has now worked into a Jabberwocky parody* on Recessionwire — which is itself compiling the beginnings of what could be something fun: a recession lexicon. Beware the Econorrhea
  • Ursula Andress also played Vesper Lynd in the 1967 James Bond parody Casino Royale.
  • To make an album like this you've got to have lived music for more than 20 years and yet never settled for clichés or self-parody.
  • It would have enabled Webber to pull off the magnificent feat of taking self-parody to the edge of the cliff and then running right back to tell a creative story.
  • 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.
  • A grotesque parody Perhaps that's fine. The Sun
  • Sometimes Tezuka’s preachiness is beautiful and at others it borders on self-parody (and then there’s the anime adaption of Metropolis which tries to mimic Tezuka and ends up parodying him, it’s just so afterschool special). Glug
  • By the end, self-parody was his only reliable source of income.
  • He smiled, a perfect parody of a questioning grin.
  • Perhaps it is time to start making the positive cultural case for the English and reclaim it from the cartoonish parody of bigotry by which the Left express their diastase for the English Working Classes. Cameron Can't Ignore Devolution for England
  • Nevertheless, parody remains within the economy of presupposition by its genre's definition.
  • Its interaction with glitchery, such as on the opening folk guitar of otherwise electrolytic single "Bootstrap" or on the Italo-western twang of opener "Transient" (the rare attempt at this style within electronica that doesn't tumble Jenga-style into self-parody) where the cigarette burns of the John Ford reel meld with the acetate and celluloid to make Brakhage collage, is oddly interactive, rather than deteriorative. PopMatters
  • Linda and Marlène's parody of a mother/daughter relationship seems to satisfy their needs temporarily but can't last.
  • These three events together, the Unwitting Thief, the Summers parody, and the Gore parody, point to a peculiar vacuum of confidence in the middle years of the last decade -- they also happen to be the time McEwan wrote Saturday, and it is not too much to claim that the fatal flaw in that book was a certain pompousness toward Western righteousness. Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment
  • It is a super-sophisticated parody of the publisher's-memoir genre.
  • 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.
  • He sighed in a parody of deep emotion.
  • A grotesque parody Perhaps that's fine. The Sun
  • He had become a grotesque parody of himself and the gallery at last began to avert its eyes. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a 1997 painting parodying hard-edge geometric abstraction, Owens presents two rows of vertical stripes that read as skyscrapers receding into space.
  • The show is a result of North's belief that our bootylicious pop-culture world is just so ripe for parody.
  • This espectáculo or show with its parody of a bullfight is called 'charlotada'. The bullfight and Cantinflas
  • What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this parody, and that the same mouth can today blow into the trump of the Judgment Day, and tomorrow into the reed-flute! Les Miserables
  • She maintains that hypnotic subjects are asked basically to take on ‘what really amounts to a parody of epileptic symptoms.’
  • As Baudrillard would have seen it, neither Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Gonzalez or their cronies would have had to imitate or reduplicate or parody what they wanted to hide. A Response to 8 Years of George W. Bush's Simulucrum on Real Humans
  • 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.
  • Amazing, but it's so overdone here as to seem like parody. Times, Sunday Times
  • The former is a jazz march parody that layers high-pitched whistling flute over a muted trumpet and slow, rolling drum hits.
  • Of course there are levels of inauthenticity, from reference and emulation to willful trickery, parody and outright forgery.
  • Discuss how the reversal of the conventions makes for a comic effect and how the comedy genre uses a parody of other genres by referring to current comedy films or TV programmes the class may be viewing.
  • Naturally, M. I.A. has a blog too, one so laden with textspeak, random capitalization and daring spelling experiments - "brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrap" - that it feels like a parody.
  • The reason you saw that bit of fakey film there to start off the show is that it's a parody of a news show.
  • 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.
  • I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
  • It is one thing, we have learned, to describe something as being ‘beyond parody’, but another, as would-be parodists, to experience the consequences of this phenomenon.
  • She has written a cruel parody of his book.
  • That Simpsons parody comes to mind: the state-of-the-art sonic blast withers the theater crowd, and cracks teeth.
  • Their skits deal with diverse topics ranging from a parody of NPR to psychopathic hitchhikers who catch rides with psychopathic drivers.
  • You would be forgiven for thinking that such sentiments had been mouthed by a male chauvinist in the 19th century, or that they are perhaps a parody of our ancestors' unenlightened mindset.
  • Though not exactly humble, he was capable of self-criticism and amused self-parody. Times, Sunday Times
  • The "semi parody" is of national novel writing month (November), or NaNoWriMo as it is acronymically known. Buy, give and read a book this Jan
  • Stanley Cavell sees (hears) Poe's prose as "a parody's of philosophy's" (111) in just this respect, its iterative paranoia and "impish" wordplay as the mad antithesis of any overcome skepticism about the credited and signified world. Notes on 'Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian'
  • The plot is a baffling array of gangster parody nonsense, sexist claptrap and kidnap chaos.
  • It's far too nasty to be a complete parody, and the writers just couldn't come up with enough well written dialogue/characters to make me care about the film.
  • He mentions an area at the end of one irrigation canal known as Gulkana, "a secluded, cozy spot ... (where) much debauchery is indulged in" and offers this parody of Hafiz he heard there: Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • If you wanted to parody this sort of music, you would come up with the exact same thing you were attempting to ridicule.
  • The leaked programme for the next legislative session was undramatic to the point of self-parody.
  • I absolutely must not be allowed to wear this in real life for fear of turning into a twirling parody of womanhood. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is an original work, a parody. The Sun
  • Blackface minstrelsy is now often considered to be antiblack parody, and some of it certainly was, but scholars have recently begun to see the songs of Dan Emmett and many other performers in the genre as expressions of desire for the freedoms they saw in the culture of the slaves. A Renegade History of the United States
  • He had become a grotesque parody of himself and the gallery at last began to avert its eyes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Garish handles, knobs and bases cast from Victorian lamps and furniture decorate her works, parodying the stultifying ornateness that marked the era.
  • He swung the door wide open in a parody of welcome.
  • My smirk widened into a vicious parody of an actual smile.
  • 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.
  • The production is propelled by the spirit of parody and irony, self-referential allusion, iconoclasm, the postmodernist and post-dramatic. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The bull's carcass dragged and hung in a grotesque parody of crucifixion.
  • In either case, this backfires because his fans may feel robbed of witnessing his all-conquering self-parody, but I digress.
  • Grand Duke Gadman was a bent-over, bent-nosed parody of his brother's regal aquilinity. Through Wolfs Eyes
  • He ruined lives in his quest to dox a Twitter account parodying him.
  • The criminal big-shot, viewed in the distorting mirror of the satirist, is a parody of the American dream of success, ironizing the business ethic by the illegality of his methods as well as by his ultimate defeat; the inevitable fall of the big-time gangster creates a sense of entrapment in an economically determined reality. Singing Soprano, While Dissin' the Bass: America's White Thug Love & Ethnically Acceptable Violence
  • But this generation of celebrity is famously superficial and basically self-parodying. Times, Sunday Times
  • Within a theory of irony, a theory of parody seems equally essential for understanding recent generic mutations.
  • The visuals are all extremely cartoonish, a style that works best for such a parody.
  • Is it a parody of the platonic republic, where politics, art and philosophy come together?
  • 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.
  • The intention is not to parody the genre, but to affectionately re-create the kind of movie that was popularized by Doris Day.
  • I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
  • The Scarlet Capsule" was a parody of the popular 1959 TV series "The Quatermass Experiment".
  • This is weird, transgressive, mind-bending cinema, reminiscent of silent-era German expressionism, and seasoned with Hollywood musical parody.
  • To me, the posing activity of bodybuilding seems very much a parody.
  • She's an expert in the art of pastiche and parody.
  • Vampire Knight Parody (Bloopers) this is part 2 titled bloopers since it uses a lot cof character nicknames (please see part one for nickname info.) and tries to be funny by altering lines from the manga together with pictures from the anime. WN.com - Articles related to Parenting: Child can get ready for an eye patch
  • Does having a scatty heroine, rather than a gormless hero, on the case affect the parody?
  • The first trial was a parody of justice.
  • As much as this is a bunch of guys from Dartmouth, N.S., parodying themselves, it's a satirical take on the types you'd find on Jerry Springer, hence its growing popularity south of the border.
  • 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.
  • Her performance contains a strong element of self-parody .
  • She has become a grotesque parody of her former elegant self.
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  • On the contrary, it is a grotesque, undignified parody. Times, Sunday Times
  • A funny parody scene of the movie was shown, while Homer grimaced at his movie heroes cavorting and caterwauling.
  • She has become a grotesque parody of her former elegant self.
  • Dispraise too was a normal folklore genre in Imerina, as can be seen in some hainteny that parody praise poems.
  • It was a parody of what a shopgirl might say, but he felt relieved, and answered: `Yes. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
  • Dull dramas and period parody have always done well on a Sunday night. Times, Sunday Times
  • As usual, pastiche passes for parody and the chuckles would flow more freely with the addition of a laughter track. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a Friday statement, an official with the rights group called for an end to what she described as a "parody of justice. Lawyer: Iran May Free US Hikers Soon
  • It was the 1950s, in other words-that time of culture's parody and simulacrum and apery. FIRST THINGS: On the Square
  • The high concept involves two young black men donning blackface minstrel makeup, reciting various bits of anachronistic shtick, parodying cruel racial stereotypes of yesteryear.
  • The problem is that Batman was already a parody of the superhero genre.
  • Clearly, we thought The Corrs were a straight act, but it turns out we've been misjudging them: they've been a parody of The Nolans in the style of the Cranberries all along.
  • The food system has lapsed into near self-parody — a steady stream of public-health disasters (from long-term maladies like diabetes to immediate complaints like salmonella), an exploited workforce (from enslaved Florida tomato pickers to scraping-by Wal-Mart clerks), and ecological damage writ large. School Lunches and the Anti-Tater Tot Agenda « Christopher Colaninno
  • The reaction to this extreme seriousness of purpose is often expressed in ironic, humorous, and self-parodying works.
  • From time to time, one reads articles that are almost self-parodying, about the anguish parents feel when picking schools for their children.
  • He had become a grotesque parody of himself and the gallery at last began to avert its eyes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Each has a different mission and acts as a parody of a different genre, and it would have been easy for the writers to ignore what had come before to prevent the series from becoming too complicated.
  • Kolender, in television and radio ads, uses pigeons flying out of an open cage to parody the jail system.

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