Sentence examples for basically a parody of from inspiring English sources

"It was basically a parody of news magazine shows.

"The Book of Categories" has a dead infant daughter in it, but even that doesn't give it emotional heft: the story is basically a parody of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" — which was a more rigorous attempt to figure out what's genuine and what's language — with a touch of Borges's "Analytical Language of John Wilkins" thrown in.

The program of the purely orchestral Symphony No. 1 in D Major (1888; one of its five movements was later discarded) is autobiographical of his youth: the joy of life becomes clouded over by an obsession with death in the macabre "Funeral March in the Manner of Callot" (basically a parody of popular music), which is eventually routed in the arduous and brilliant finale.

The first segment, The Shinning, was inspired by the film The Shining, and is basically a parody of that film.

The issue is essentially a parody of The New Yorker.

The "Seinfeld" parody Twitter account, which is basically a parody account of another "Seinfeld" parody account, Seinfeld Today (if you think hard enough), made Arcade Fire a music video for the band's track, "Here Comes The Night Time".

The fictional account of Johnny Coxh-type Dewey Cox is basically a biographical parody of rock 'n' roll itself, in America and abroad.

The fictional account of Johnny Coxh-type Dewey Cox is basically a biographical parody of rock'n'roll itself, in America and abroad.

He's basically a brilliant parody of himself.

Basically an outright parody of platform mascots, creator Doug TenNapel's Earthworm Jim is an ordinary earthworm who gained powers by having a super sci-fi space suit land on his head, then went on to battle his villains like Professor Monkey-for-a-head (he had a monkey for a head) and Queen Slug-for-a-butt (she had a slug for a butt).

A parody of Raymond Chandler.