Sentence examples for some travesty from inspiring English sources

"If by some travesty they do ban the vuvuzelas, at least we'll have precedent for dealing with that".

Throughout this novel, Power unpacks her character's emotions and observations with a firm, graceful hand, and nowhere is she as perceptive as when we're seeing Mariane through Ito's eyes: "She cracks a smile and it has an imperfection to it, frail Dresden china with a crack, a flash of watery blue eyes and folding lips amongst some wreckage, some travesty of beauty going on".

Yet unlike other beach restaurants, this doesn't feel tacky oras if you are party to some environmental travesty.

Thief feels unwieldy at times, although it's not the travesty some reviewers are making it out to be.

The last election, in 2007, was a travesty; some judged it to be the most rigged poll in the country's history, others in the history of Africa.

"It was a travesty because some of the football we played was fantastic and some of the goals we scored were great goals.

But the United Nations and even conservative allies of Mr. Uribe say the legislation would be a travesty, allowing some of the most brutal warlords to avoid justice.

"Absurd" and "a travesty" are some of the words used to describe Russia's trial of the dead lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, set to open on 22 March.

Let's see some transparency behind this travesty of reason.

A travesty of democracy, some Greek-Cypriots said.

"In some ways it's a travesty that we're celebrating this because our club should be pushing at the other end and it starts now.