Sentence examples for to travesty from inspiring English sources

The criticism that literary prizes elicit often seems determined so to categorise and reduce, even to travesty.

In the years since that day, much has been made of the use of the iconography of terror as an allusion to travesty in movies.

William Henry Fry, in The New York Tribune, was not the only 1861 New York critic to travesty the notion of a masquerade ball in Puritan Massachusetts.

And no movie has ever succeeded so well in reducing that totalitarian project to travesty, to one more tawdry show biz episode.

"The alternative is that we analyse culture as if this process of transmission hadn't occurred, which as far as I'm concerned is to travesty culture itself.

* From tragedy to travesty: Drugs tested on survivors of Bhopal * Leading article: Drugs firms must not prey on poverty * Drugs policy advisor under fire over links to pharmaceutical company.

It is a common reaction to "Travesties" to say that seeing it is like drinking champagne.

So many witnesses to travesties of justice.

And, as a consequence, maybe people don't pay enough attention to travesties like forced marriage or female genital mutilation.

And, as a consequence, maybe people don't pay enough attention to travesties like forced marriage or female genital mutilation – for which not a single prosecution has ever been brought in the UK.

"We are not here to add to that travesty.