Sentence examples for she sends up from inspiring English sources
Far from making herself the heroine, she sends up her own narcissism, and her ability to wind people up.
In "Simple Life," for instance, she sends up the self-help movement.
How brilliantly she captures its veiled bitchiness; how expertly – yet lovingly too – she sends up the silly cul-de-sacs of scholarship.
In her latest novel, Rip Tide, she sends up gung-ho American officials who imagine that al-Qaida can be bombed into submission.
For "The Lady or the Tiger?," she does a Dolores Gray vixen imitation, complete with cracking bullwhip, and, for "Passionella," she sends up Marilyn Monroe as she hits her high C.
After failing to attract his attention, she sends up a Christmas parcel containing another telescope, and a tear trickles down his cheek when he finds her waving at him.
Loewe came into her cross hairs when she sent up the musical tastes and manners of the belle époque.
In the process she also sends up popular advice books such as Neil Strauss's The Rules of the Game, mocking its suggestion that men should wear a plumed hat to get noticed.
McAfee is married to Ian McEwan, which in the celebrity-mad world she so wittily sends up makes her pretty much a celebrity herself.
A lovelorn, displaced woman in "Elsewhere", watching a fatal accident, thinks numbly about her habit of burning everything she's gathered before she moves on, and sends up this prayer to God: "I only want the right to be injured to know what I miss.
Subversive writer that she is, Ruth Rendell slyly sends up two iconic figures of English society — the animal lover and the guardian of political correctness — in her new Inspector Wexford mystery, THE MONSTER IN THE BOX (Scribner, $26).
