Sentence examples for amusing travesty from inspiring English sources
"The Torch-Bearers," hailed 78 years ago by Alexander Woollcott in The New York Times as "a cruel and enormously amusing travesty," would seem since to have gone the way of so much topical parody, straight into storage.
More confident as a comedienne than as a vocalist, Miss Harry is musically comfortable singing light brassy novelties like "Material Girl" and "Freeway of Love". The bump-and-grind, pop-soul version of Stephen Sondheim's "Putting It Together" that opens her show is an amusing travesty.
Hailed 78 years ago by Alexander Woollcott in The New York Times as "a cruel and enormously amusing travesty," this satire on the mishaps of a community theater production would seem since to have gone the way of so much topical parody, straight into storage.
The records for the mid-1670s are particularly incomplete, and neither exact dates nor the public reaction to Duffett's pieces are known, but even the printed versions, pale shadows of Duffett's travesty spectacles, have proved highly amusing to modern critics.
But if you're going to have one nominee from the amusing but threadbare "Hot in Cleveland," it's a travesty that it's not Wendie Malick.
