Sentence examples for of a travesty from inspiring English sources

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And it's only slightly less of a travesty that it's not Jane Leeves.

It was a travesty, and I didn't want to be part of a travesty.

Perhaps because legislators believed the film version of The Flintstones to be as much of a travesty as I did.

Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw called this "crass", "banal" and "a bit of a travesty" when it was released in 2000.

It is, obviously, impossible to control one's legacy after one expires; and while there will be many artists and writers who envy Milne's immortality, (for surely commanding any memory is better than none at all), to have a life summarised by people lobbing sticks over a bridge does seem something of a travesty.

The fan's player ratings Howard 6; Neville 3, Yobo 7, Lescott 6, Valente 5 (Baxter 7); Arteta 8, Jagielka 6, Rodwell 8, Osman 7, Baines 5; Yakubu 6 Simon Leigh, Observer reader We absolutely dominated the first half and it was a bit of a travesty that it was level at half-time.

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The result amounts to a travesty of historical writing.

This Manichean split amounts to a "travesty of history and memory".

The Gotsche-Olsen paper is an example of uncritical application of arbitrary criteria, a travesty of what overviews should be attempting to accomplish.

The prosecution of Regina McKnight was an outrage, and her conviction (after 15 minutes of deliberation) a travesty.

Which would sort of be a travesty really as the history books would simply show England winning the double header.

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