Sentence examples for mock rendition from inspiring English sources

Mock rendition flights?

Filmgoers still humming from Jessica Lange's spirited mime of the entire Patsy Cline discology in "Sweet Dreams" can now dig Dean Stockwell's eerily sensitive mock rendition of "In Dreams" in "Blue Velvet".

On July 1, Guantánamo commanding general, Geoffrey Miller, approved "Special Projects" status for Slahi and signed off on a 90-day interrogation plan that, in addition to incorporating the aforementioned techniques, was to culminate in a mock rendition.

When the affair begins, and Kate turns bitter, she speaks to Daniel "in that mocking rendition of the male voice that women do -- the voice of someone who's just had a cinder block dropped on his head".

At a reading I attended in the Smith College science lecture hall a few years ago, Charles Bernstein, famous as a poet and anti-poet, pointed to the giant poster on the wall behind him and said, "I want to thank the Poetry Center for putting up my poem 'The Periodic Table of the Elements.' " He then proceeded to give a mock-dramatic rendition of the symbols, left to right, down the page.

It begins with a mocking blackface rendition of "Camptown Races" to maker clear Foster's roots were in minstrel shows, a period he longs to put behind him.

The US, however, then sent him first to Bagram in Afghanistan, and then to Guantánamo, where he was designated a "special project" and subjected to isolation, beatings, sexual humiliation, death threats, and a mock kidnapping and rendition, said his publisher.

He gently mocks the effects of ageing in an inspired rendition of Tower of Song: Well, my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play So do we all, Leonard, so do we all.