How To Use Send-up In A Sentence
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Instead of a send-up of a target ripe for spoofing, they are making serious points about a play that Wilde subtitled ‘a trivial comedy for serious people’.
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I'm just afraid it won't be fun to watch a send-up of shows I haven't seen.
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Through skits, TV show send-ups, songs, kids' rhymes and humorous choreographed sequences, the play illustrates many of the ways mothers and daughters drive each other nuts, before concluding on a note of filial appreciation.
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They're two brothers who create animated, musical send-ups of everything from corporate America to the government.
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The Spectator has a good send-up of anti-Americanism.
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This is in no way a send-up of ignorance and incompetence, but rather a critique of a world that can't seem to recognize it.
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Here are just a few of the YouTube mashups, rants and send-ups inspired by the half-minute when Nike "Just Blew It.
John Lee: England Beats Ireland in Rugby... on Planet Nike (VIDEO)
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At the moment the TVs broadcast a repeating loop of one of the Guerilla News Network's pastiched send-ups of Bush's war yammer from last year - another scathing and witty but oft-screened bit of insurgent Final Cut Pro handiwork.
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But it failed to key me up, just as the subject matter, perhaps deliberately, left me never quite sure whether this was an earnest morality tale or a spoof and a send-up.
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But the painting is also an elaborate joke: this casual encounter not only particularizes the Greek myth of man's harnessing of fire, but it's also a send-up.
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But it failed to key me up, just as the subject matter, perhaps deliberately, left me never quite sure whether this was an earnest morality tale or a spoof and a send-up.
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In many ways it's a send-up, but it's a good-hearted one.
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Who knew that the send-up documentary "This Is Spinal Tap" not only lampooned the business of rock and roll but illustrated deep philosophical conundrums?
Hear It, Feel It
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There are virtuoso showpieces, hilarious buffo send-ups, and elegiac romances, all enhanced by imaginative instrumental accompaniments.
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This is a hilarious send-up of corny Hollywood action flicks, cut like a movie trailer.
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Carolina, do you think perhaps Palin should be worried that she ` ll go down in infamy as the ditziest (ph) candidate ever because of what Tina Fey is doing with her send-ups?
CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2008
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It was meant as sort of a send-up, a historical send-up.
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It's a non-stop rollercoaster ride of feel-good action, packed with gags, movie send-ups and poignant interludes, making this a thrilling rival to any live-action blockbuster.
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With its intricate cartoons and satirical send-ups, the monthly magazine gained a reputation for skewering politicians, advertisers, TV shows and a variety of print outlets.
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It was a brilliant send-up, but it was a caricature of our real meetings.
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The group's send-ups of Latin American soap operas on stilts and unicycles have also drawn attention.
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In many ways it's a send-up, but it's a good-hearted one.
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In a send-up of best picture Oscar nominee "The King's Speech, " a Razzie presenter wearing a crown feigned a stammer as he read names of the worst screenplays.
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But for all the send-ups, the strong mother figure remains a key figure in ensuring Jewish continuity.
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The first smash hit of the 2007-2008 Broadway season turned out to be one of the biggest surprises in Broadway history †“Xanadu.†People are calling a hilariously reinvented send-up of the 1980’s Olivia Newton-John film, this irreverent musical adventure, about following your dreams when others say you shouldn’t, spins along to the addictive original hit film score by pop-rock legends Jeff Lynne and John Farrar.
Whoopi Roller Skates ‘Xanadu’
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The group's send-ups of Latin American soap operas on stilts and unicycles have also drawn attention.
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It took the opening credits of Roger Vadim's 1968 sci-fi send-up Barbarella -- a naked Jane Fonda floating in space to the accompaniment of the oh-so-'60s theme song "Barbarella, psychedella/There's a kind of cockle shell about you" -- to convince us otherwise.
Michael Sigman: Memories of a Great Friend
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The Great Winchester Gun Riot of May 1908 almost sounds like a joke, a self-mocking send-up of the usually sleepy county town.
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He does a brilliant send-up of the President.
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Or the send-up newsreel fanfare "Movietone" from Cherry 2000.
GreenCine Daily: Remembering Basil Poledouris.
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The set of frying pans are a hilarious send-up of the whole idea.
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In between, there are virtuoso showpieces, hilarious buffo send-ups, and elegiac romances, all enhanced by imaginative instrumental accompaniments.
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It's a kind of Carry On Shakespeare, a loving send-up without mockery.
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So the boys decided it was high time someone did a humorous send-up of these books, in the form of a warm, satirical and very funny guide to a country that simply doesn't exist.
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These scenes play as either unintentionally hilarious lapses of directorial judgment or sharp send-ups of phony spiritual experiences.
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If you can sit back, enjoy the scenery, the touching humour, the deft performances and the clever send-ups of American monoculture, this is one brilliant, meandering ride.
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Leddy refers to sources as diverse as Bartok, Darwin and Baudrillard, but essentially it's a send-up.
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Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest
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It is a send-up - nationalism as a postmodern jape.
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Not so much a send-up of TV news back then although there were a few good zingers as it took a look at the blatant sexism and chauvinism in the 1970's workplace.
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This book is such a perfect send-up of the primary Heinlein themes, and such a jaundiced/humorous take on where the genre's thralldom to Heinlein has taken the field that it is practically a manifesto and declaration of independence for those who are critical of "traditional" SF.
MIND MELD: The Hugo Awards - Success at Picking the Best, How Well it Represents the Genre, 2009 Predictions & Overlooked Titles
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Clearly this is a send-up of the index-maker's art.
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Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest