Sentence examples for dark parody from inspiring English sources

At first, Swingline executives weren't sure they liked being associated with such a dark parody of corporate life.

"Saturday TV Funhouse" was a dark parody of Bozo, with Smigel playing Prozo, a half-drunk clown.

In what sounds like a dark parody of Sumire's story, a former member explains that "Aum created people who had discarded their Selves".

It is typical of Brooker's grimly ironic narrative sensibility that Cooper's escapism should bring him to a technologically enhanced haunted house, a dark parody of home.

The orchestra played with strength: in the second movement, the shivery, muted melodies vanished and reappeared out of nothing, and the third movement's dark parody of the first notes of Pachelbel's Canon had both weight and shadowy nostalgia.

Whenever Dexter confronted his victims with their crimes, it was a dark parody of a police interrogation as well as a variant on the notion of detective work as psychoanalysis.

The girls of "Girls" are dark parodies of millennials today, and a lot of those cringe-inducing, horrible moments are actually brilliant.

(Brantley) 'DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD' The "Peanuts" characters grow up, do drugs and have sex in this dark, disposable parody.

Vitrines fronted with tinted plexiglass and containing everything from piles of cereal and an Edward Scissorshands hand to drawings, mediate between the light and the dark and parody museum displays.

Because I frequent the bar where The Lawrence Arms frontman Brendan Kelly works, I've known since its inception that he was behind @Nihilist_Arbys, a dark and hilarious parody Twitter account spoofing what would happen if Arby's tweeted out existential dread-inducing pitches to get people to buy reasonably priced sandwiches.

The lyrics were typically apathetic and angst-filled, and often concerned themes such as social alienation and entrapment, although it was also known for its dark humor and parodies of commercial rock.