Sentence examples for parody with from inspiring English sources

"Lester wrote with satire, with parody, with invective and with love," Marcus says.

It was this Caribbean Essences commercial parody with Tracy Morgan being a Rastafarian.

High Anxiety (1977) was a more centred parody, with the films of Alfred Hitchcock as its target.

Mr. Beatty's genre-busting technique, his mingling of parody with naturalism, seems aimed at avoiding stock situations, ghetto stereotypes.

The result is a video that begins with a parody, with one dancer in a viking hat doing the new Harlem Shake.

And in the absence of more consistent pleasures, I was left to ponder the thoroughness, bordering on parody, with which Rouge Tomate promotes its virtue.

We are dealing then not with parody but with something else: fraud.

And that wouldn't besmirch my opinion of Michael Cera, promising young actor, if he hadn't brought himself to the brink of self-parody with his choice of roles.

In "Thumbs" at the Helen Hayes Theater Company here, the playwright Rupert Holmes, also sets the stage for fun, games and considerable self-parody, with the fluid help of the director Marcia Milgrom Dodge and the set designer Dan Kuchar.

This is a director who has, in recent years, verged on self-parody with his glib internationalism and his repeated device of hooking disparate lives together with a random event.

True, she sometimes lays it on too thick: edging close to self-parody with bluesy groans and growls, or waxing inspirational (in "Doesn't Everybody") about our common need for love.