Sentence examples for witty parody from inspiring English sources

Cole Porter's score was a witty parody of the piano music played in silent-movie theatres.

Chaucer himself narrates this tale, a witty parody of the worst poetic romances.

This triple bill mixes witty parody and romantic homage in revivals of Spitfire, Town and Country and The Infernal Galop.

"Love in Bloom" was offered as a witty parody of the Jack Benny theme song that Benny (whose name he didn't mention) comically flubbed.

After 100 feet, enter the Lucerna Passage, where Cerny's witty parody has the Czech national hero sitting upright on a bound, upside-down horse.

As if that were not enough, they have to finish with a witty parody of the chosen writer of the week - imagine Tom Stoppard writing a soap opera, for example.

In between the heart-stopping swan scenes are witty parodies — notably, of the British Royal Family, with all the deliciously squalid problems they were having at the time.

Frere is remembered for witty parodies in The Anti-Jacobin (1797 98), a weekly that opposed revolution in England and abroad; for his brilliance as a translator; and for his experiments with metre.

(Passages of dialogue, for example, are rhythmic and rhymed.) But "Music in the Air" is one of those gently witty parodies of a quaint art form that wind up seeming quainter than the real thing.

His first feature, "Zombieland," was a half-witty genre parody.

On the one hand, it's witty and incisive parody, as fluent in Mr. Obama's tics as in hip-hop manners.