Example sentences for: burlesque

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

  • In Mexican social thought the role of relajo behavior is shown to be a criticism of the political corruption of the government, but also a burlesque of the divisions of the social classes.

  • Before long, the streets and alleys around the temple were filled with music halls, burlesque theaters, cabarets, gambling dens, and watering holes of every description.

  • The horror genre lost its life's blood when filmmakers began to worry about being laughed at by teen-agers who'd seen it all before, and to incorporate kids' imagined responses into their pictures--so that you got the movie and the Mystery Science Theater 3000 burlesque of the movie at the same time.

  • Benny Hill, whose shows have often been seen (too often, some might be inclined to say) in the U.S., rarely resorts to rude language, focusing rather on what is viewed as a revival of old burlesque routines in which there is much rolling of the eyes, winking, and the sly aside to the audience, all of which add up to the rudeness being in the mind of the beholder.

  • The amazing thing about Dick (directed by Andrew Fleming from a script he wrote with Sheryl Longin) is that it manages to burlesque the Watergate mythos without trivializing it.


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