(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.
Parody
Definition:
(n.) A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty.
(n.) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
(v. t.) To write a parody upon; to burlesque.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is the show and that’s the best and worst thing about it,” he says, before using a recent parody of Beyoncé’s monologues in her visual album Lemonade as an example.
(2) I felt like a fugitive, a voice in the wilderness of televisual parody.
(3) Mohammed Hanif, the award winning novelist, also parodied General Zia and his inner circle in his novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes .
(4) I can't find much use for Altmejd's work, other than to describe and parody it.
(5) The novelist and critic Tom Bissell has described the protagonist's Jewish lawyer in 2002's Vice City as "an anti-Semitic parody of an anti-Semitic parody", while in the new game one of the main character's daughters has a tattoo that reads "skank", and one mission involves you helping a paparazzo capture a starlet's "low-hanging muff".
(6) Skifcha spurned a wave of parody videos and fan art but it’s all been rather quiet over the past few years.
(7) Stay (sung primarily by Detroit) became a mutant No 1 hit, a pop culture flashpoint parodied by both French & Saunders and Newman & Baddiel, who likened Fahey's voice to a foghorn.
(8) Why Independence Day: Resurgence's gay couple are denied a close encounter Read more While LGBT characters have maintained some form of visibility within independent cinema, they have been parodied, stereotyped and used for tiresome gay-panic humour in their rare appearances in studio films.
(9) (The UN speech lives on in several forms; mostly parodies.)
(10) Greenpeace energy analyst Jimmy Aldridge said: “The fact that it’s [Defra] that is trying to keep one of the most polluting power stations in Europe open is beyond parody.
(11) Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders performed a parody of the smash hit Mamma Mia!
(12) President Jonathan wholly shares the widely expressed view that the signs which were put up without his knowledge or approval are a highly insensitive parody of the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag,” his office said.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Elizabeth Banks parodies Donald Trump’s entrance at DNC “Some of you know me from The Hunger Games, in which I play Effie Trinket – a cruel, out-of-touch reality TV star who wears insane wigs while delivering long-winded speeches to a violent dystopia,” she said.
(14) The works of this period include Revelation and Fall (1966), in which a nun in blood-red costume and a megaphone shrieks expressionist poems of Georg Trakl, the Missa super l’Homme Armé (1968), a parody of a Latin Mass, and above all Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969).
(15) Victory is no less assured than it is for Bashar al-Assad, facing his date with Syria's destiny next month – though that exercise has been widely condemned as a parody of democracy.
(16) His most popular and best-known work is contained in fast-moving parodies, homages or even straight reconstructions of traditional space-opera adventures.
(17) Past posters were defaced with markers on billboards just as quickly, but the parodies had no means of going viral.
(18) When the famous Rivels clowns recently came to a leading Berlin music-hall with their act, which used to include a parody of Charlie Chaplin, the clown who played the mock Charlie abandoned his little moustache and bowler and appeared in another disguise.
(19) I, of course, told myself at the time that it was because there was something foul about the scene unfolding in my living room; something toxifying in this soft-world parody of the worst, most irredeemable yet persistent aspect of human nature: the unending horror of judgment and mass execution.
(20) Broadcaster and football fanatic Danny Baker parodied the BBC's instructions to Neville: "We've an idea tonight's match could get quite heated.