(v. t.) To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
(v. i.) To employ burlesque.
(a.) Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.
(n.) An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
(n.) A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you want to watch cabaret’s great and good consuming one too many glasses of prosecco, Saturday night at the Soho Burlesque Club is the place to go.
(2) The two identities coexist as "two hearts beating in my chest", and have different back-stories: while Neuwirth was born in the Austrian town of Gmunden, Conchita comes from the mountains of Colombia and has a fictional husband, burlesque artist Jacques Patriaque ("a fairytale – he's actually a close friend of mine").
(3) Are we really asking standups to compete with burlesque dancers and rock music?
(4) Sure, the season’s story, which focuses on Vanessa Ives’s struggle to decode the “memoirs of the devil” and fight a hissing viper pit of Lucifer’s witches, may be pure pulp burlesque, but that’s just the first layer of Penny Dreadful’s charm.
(5) • workersplaytime.net Chosen by Sink the Pink co-founders, Glynfamous (Glyn Fussell) and Amy Zing (Amy Redmond) Soho Burlesque Club Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Soho Burlesque Club Soho Burlesque Club – at the Hippodrome Casino – is a properly late-night cabaret experience.
(6) That gin-obsessed burlesque and cupcake fanatic you've secretly had your eye on?
(7) I think they had some kind of burlesque-type dancing on a stage, but it was mainly just 90s house, techno and people dancing, in drag.
(8) Faena has seven buildings under construction, including an arts centre, a luxury hotel and burlesque theatre designed by film director Baz Luhrmann to invoke the spirit of a Latino Great Gatsby.
(9) There will be burlesque workshops for adults, the Magnificent Insect Circus Museum and five performances of Sideshow Illusions featuring a headless lady.
(10) Compered by the ventriloquist and standup comedian, it is billed as a mix of cabaret, burlesque, magic, musical comedy and circus performance.
(11) It saw the first night of his most successful play, The Love Of Four Colonels, a cold war satirical burlesque in which Russia, America, Britain and France partition the land in which the Sleeping Beauty lies.
(12) Union Music, Lewes Running a burlesque boutique in a Sussex market town wasn't enough of a challenge for Stevie Freeman.
(13) I once stayed out drinking there with burlesque superstar Dirty Martini until the early hours of the morning.
(14) The owners Steve and Hannah book an eclectic mix of music, burlesque and comedy and you can guarantee something off the wall will be on.
(15) It was the exact opposite, weaving puppets and games around set pieces – which included a rap about going for a smear test and a burlesque act where slogans about equal pay were all that was revealed.
(16) This year, Cotillard takes a belt-and-braces approach: she's an Ellis Island burlesque dancer in James Gray's 1920s-set The Immigrant , as well as a moll in 70s Brooklyn in Blood Ties (scripted by Gray, shot by her husband, Guillaume Canet).
(17) Cher's right about Burlesque – an overlong potboiler that also starred Christina Aguilera, it wasn't even camp enough to be fun.
(18) Cypriot halloumi + Shed Seven + burlesque.” In the days approaching The Thick of It screening I smugly congratulated myself on my precognitive programming genius.
(19) In the comedy programme, the majority of acclaimed shows were by women, including the visiting American standup Tig Notaro, British standup and actor Sara Pascoe, and the extraordinary Adrienne Truscott, one-half of the New York burlesque double-act The Wau Wau Sisters.
(20) But the regulator noted that ITV "regretted that some viewers were taken aback by the performance, but it believed that it took appropriate steps to minimise potential offence", and said that because Aguilera's routine was based on her film Burlesque that the costumes had to be seen "in context".
Parodic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Parodical
Example Sentences:
(1) But as many coaches have learned before, managing that alchemy within MLS and its rolling state of exception, involves an almost parodic version of standard managerial practices.
(2) May 15, 2014 Morrissey's newfound social networking voice comes as he gears up to release his latest album, World Peace is None of Your Business , featuring almost self-parodic titles such as Earth Is the Loneliest Planet and Staircase at the University.
(3) In his memoir, he recalls the extravagant nicknames of some of the locas and transvestites whom he frequented: like their cross-dressed bodies, their names were a sort of parodic translation of their caricatured identity.
(4) She was one of the most mature users of Twitter and her Twitter feed was so Tayloresque as to be nigh-on parodic, mixing passionate defences of Jackson with shout-outs to reality TV android Kim Kardashian and the occasional – and necessary – denials that she had re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-remarried ("Jason is my dearest friend!"
(5) Farage is easily most animated when discussing his Common Sense Tour of last year, an auto-parodic-sounding meet-and-greet odyssey around the country, but one of which he speaks so fondly that you can't begrudge him it.
(6) If his aim was to illustrate our self-parodic self-absorption, then he may consider it realised.
(7) When printing the pictures, and reporting on the story, tabloids including the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror made sure to include just how much the couple's house is worth, with the Mail taking its obsession with real estate to a self-parodic extent by adding how much Lawson and Saatchi had recently spent on renovations , beneath a photo of Saatchi's hand around Lawson's neck, her eyes full of tears and fear.
(8) The great American satirist PJ O’Rourke was standing next to me, so I congratulated him on stumbling upon an auto-parodic British scene.
(9) The foreign secretary has since insisted the column was intended merely as a tool for his own thought process, calling it “semi-parodic” in tone.
(10) After months – or, rather, years – of studied inaction, the various purveyors of trans fats and piss-beer and sundry obesity-epidemic drivers who serve as Fifa’s self-parodic partners have suggested that the Fifa president may care to step down and spend more time helping police with their inquiries.
(11) By the time reviews of The Dark Frontier were coming out, Ambler was already deep into his next book, a straight - or at least non-parodic - thriller with the working title Background to Danger.
(12) The whole thing would be laughably parodic if it weren’t so depressing.
(13) Englishness became a parody of itself (and it was pretty parodical to start with); little more than a series of bowler-hatted funny walks.I couldn’t stand stout John Bull with his union jack waistcoat and pointing finger.
(14) Last week she launched her skincare range MDNA Skin in Japan with a borderline self-parodic promotional video below, which harks back to the monochrome raunch of her early 90s Sex period as she intones: "Having good skin is important to me.
(15) Franzen has been forced to take down several fake Twitter accounts, “because I’ve had this problem with people impersonating me, not in a parodic way.
(16) But it is tempting to imagine that Maggie might have seen in him a kindred spirit, an iconoclast and mischief maker who enjoys playing up to a parodic version of himself.
(17) Maybe politics really is becoming so parodic that it is beyond satire and the only conclusion is: if you can't beat them, join them.
(18) For a novel about leisure – Ballard's only full-length work explicitly about this lifelong preoccupation – the subtly parodic chunky-thriller rhythms and unhurried mystery-story plotting are a perfect fit: it's a holiday book satirising the ritual of the holiday book.
(19) I then thought I better see if I can make the alternative case for myself so I then wrote a sort of semi-parodic article in the opposite sense, which has mysteriously found its way into the paper this morning because I think I might have sent it to a friend.
(20) Heartache and yearning also have their place, and Yang appears unafraid of the nostalgic, the parodic, the theatrical and the enigmatic.