Example sentences for: parodies

How can you use “parodies” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's a one joke movie, but the one joke is good, and the actors are great: "Laughs battle formulas and laughs win" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). As the mob boss, "De Niro parodies his own persona with huge relish" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), and Crystal's put-upon analyst is refreshingly underplayed.

  • When he plays, he folds himself intimately over his guitar and silently moves his lips, as if whispering sweet nothings to it; Penn's expression of stewed soulfulness parodies this twerpy egotist and exalts him at the same time.

  • Its secret is deadpan parodies of news stories ("Report: Drug Use Down Among Uncool Kids").

  • The German critic Hans Magnus Enzensberger has written of how Grass ranges with masterly skill from high-flown parodies of Catholic litany to the impersonal tone of case histories to slang to dialect and so on.

  • The "TRB" column parodies the truth-stretching Robert Reich, imagining him as Walter Mitty.


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