Sentence examples for laughable imitation from inspiring English sources
To anyone who enjoys a "real" burger, the veggie burger has often been dismissed as laughable imitation of the classic hamburger, with a foundational ingredient missing.
Although anemic, even laughable imitations abound, the $9.95 version here, on a soft, eggy hot dog-style bun, overloaded with mayonnaise-laced meat and celery, requires a fork to scoop up the excess lobster.
Raymond Keene, an English grandmaster who is an organizer of the Kasparov-Kramnik match and an investor in Brain Games, said of FIDE's new system, "It is a laughable cardboard imitation".
Aristophanic comedy sought its laughable quality not so much in the imitation of a person as in the representation of "some odd conceit which had commonly somewhat of unnatural or obscene in it".
Her new book - Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and their Assault on America - is out next week and, among many other things, she attacks Michelle Obama's dress sense: "Her obvious imitation of Jackie O's style... would have been laughable if done by anyone other than a media-designated saint".
Don Juan and The Corsair were both filmed in melodramatic black and white; the Byronic hero spawned a thousand celluloid imitations - Gabriel Byrne is convincingly Byronic as Byron in Ken Russell's hallucinogenic and slightly laughable Gothic (1986).
