Sentence examples for travesty with from inspiring English sources

The judicial system is a travesty, with alleged wrongdoers sometimes held for months or years without charge.

The meatballs were a travesty, with the consistency of an eraser and a distinct taste of stale cooking oil.

Sadly, I don't see any indication that the voters will respond to this travesty with one iota of courage in the midterm election.

Hussain's lawyer, Sarah Belal from Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), calls the state of Pakistani justice "a travesty", with the death penalty targeting the "most vulnerable members of society".

Here, Brooks turns atrocity into travesty, with a fabulous high-kicking chorus in swastika formation singing to "ev'ry hotsy-totsy Nazi" and with parading showgirls doing their Ziegfeld strut while balancing behemoth beer steins, pretzels, and bratwursts on their heads.

Our collective failure to commit to meaningful reductions in emissions is a political and moral travesty, with catastrophic implications, particularly for the poorest and most marginalised, domestically and globally.

The penalties were a travesty, though, with three saves at least.

The Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, a travesty troupe, with men darting about on point as sylphs and odalisques, made its début in 1974 in a loft on Fourteenth Street managed by the West Side Discussion Group, a homophile organization.

First came the Martha Graham Dance Company, at City… Matthew Bourne, who is probably the most acclaimed choreographer in England today, founded his first troupe, campily called Adventures in Motion Pictures, in 1987 — a ragtag… The Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, a travesty troupe, with men darting about on point as sylphs and odalisques, made its début in 1974 in….

Typically, Ashton drew on Holden's perception of the great music-hall artists who played travesty roles with understanding, not burlesque, and also upon his knowledge of tap dance (learned, together with music hall awareness, from an early teacher, the elegant song-and-dance man Victor Leopold, of the Bush Davies schools), to create the Widow's famous clog dance.

When challenged, the creators of these travesties respond with pat dismissal: the director Kathryn Bigelow pointed out that Zero Dark Thirty is "just a movie".