Sentence examples for in travesty from inspiring English sources

In Travesty, only one of those voices is loudly heard, and for the want of the others, a more conventional bland of bleakness wins out.

We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well.

Their newest exercise in travesty, "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: The Concert Version" (written and directed by Alex Timbers, music and lyrics by Michael Friedman; at the Public), is a smart, vulgar, comic-book romp through history, a sort of "Andrew Jackson for Beginners".

May 5 2009 May 24 200909 Les Freres Corbusier's newest exercise in travesty (written and directed by Alex Timbers, music and lyrics by Michael Friedman), is a smart, vulgar, comic-book romp through history, a sort of "Andrew Jackson for Beginners".

The seeds of 'Arcadia' are in 'Travesties' — the idea of simultaneous time".

In "The Invention of Love," the elderly poet A. E. Housman, like Henry Carr in "Travesties," comments on his younger self.

Not since Tom Stoppard threw together James Joyce, Lenin and Tristan Tzara in "Travesties" in 1975 have audience brows been lifted quite so high.

She tells about the difficulties of acting in "Travesties" where a word or phrase in one scene will come back in different forms in later scenes.

In "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern," he battens on Shakespeare, in "Inspector Hound" on Christie, in "Jumpers" on the logical positivists, in "Travesties" on Wilde, James Joyce, and Lenin.

To illustrate the problems of dramatic composition, he has brought along two dozen drafts of the blast of invective that Tzara launches against Joyce in "Travesties".

An old man remembers (or misremembers) his encounters with Joyce and Lenin in "Travesties," Tom Stoppard's 1974 comedy, a Roundabout transfer from London's Menier Chocolate Factory (March 29, American Airlines Theatre).