Sentence examples for like a travesty from inspiring English sources

It may have been an economic necessity, but it felt like a travesty nonetheless.

No matter how well done, it feels like a travesty of horror.

Any which way you approach this story – except from the miraculous conclusion – it looks like a travesty.

"Perhaps I'm conditioned by years of being a sports fan, but watching a superior athlete purposely keep the score close seemed like a travesty.

If she was guilty of naïvety in surrendering her unique bargaining power so meekly, if Burmese democracy today looks like a travesty of the real thing, the Obama administration – and Mr Cameron – must take their share of the blame.

For those steeped in art, however, like critics — and particularly the painters themselves — it feels like a travesty to see Albers's work classified among the yellows and Brodsky's among the blues.

Just too greatly liked A travesty of honour Pots of flesh But is it theatre?

The picture opens with Bobby, a club fighter, in a tepid slugfest with Ricky; this sting-like-a-butterfly travesty is so boring that even the hecklers can't rouse themselves to do much damage.

It enjoyed a brief resurgence of popularity in the Sixties when it was adapted (by John Osborne and Tony Richardson) into a film which seemed fresh and intelligent at the time, although it now looks like more of a travesty, and tells us far more about the 1960s than it does about the 1740s.

Congress needs to rewrite disaster aid regulations so that a travesty like this one never happens again.

Ohio should halt any further executions until it conducts a comprehensive study of what is going wrong in its administration of lethal injection and what can be done to ensure that a travesty like Mr. Broom's attempted execution does not happen again.