Sentence examples for of travesty from inspiring English sources

Flavor is lost; the tone of travesty is not.

But the family history, the sprawling epic of travesty and travail, seems more like a grim recasting of the vanquished bloodlines in "100 Years of Solitude".

His gaudy designs for Zurich may be a kind of travesty, but their impertinence stirs dormant roots of belief to aggravated consciousness.

An early example of travesty is the humorous treatment of the Pyramus and Thisbe legend in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595 96).

He was proud of being homosexual, which by his definition meant living as a dream of a woman, though without the aesthetic insult of travesty cross-dressing ("My ankles look all wrong in a gown").

But like Brian Bedford as Lady Bracknell in the recent Broadway revival of "The Importance of Being Earnest," Mr. Mac is not in the business of travesty; on the contrary, he acts with simplicity and sincerity that still allows for ample humor and sharp Brechtian sallies through the fourth wall.

The second act of "Travesties" is dominated by Lenin.

I'm excited to move into this new world of travesties!

The hard polemic purpose of "Travesties" is to argue that art must be independent of the world of politics.

Similarly, the Coens, for all their blithe insincerity, can't help but acknowledge the strange archaic power of the culture they have made a career of travestying.

Instead, we sat in the car for hours while she told me stories of travesties that took place in Bosnia in the 1990s.